The driving silly season has started

Monday morning, driving the school bus to the first pick up point - saw a porche on its roof.

Monday evening, taking my mother home from her part-time job - saw the end result of a head-on car crash, where both cars ended up on the pavement (walkway to non-brits). Pedestrian casuailties unknown yet...

Tuesday afternoon - LOTS of multi-coloured plastic and sand (to soak up oil) on a dual carriageway, where the road was straight with no junctions.

This morning, school road crossing attendant (lollipop man) knocked down at the designated crossing point that has dual flashing lights (like those you get at fire stations), striped bollards, 10 feet tall yellow pencils, 20mph signs and road markings (in bright red boxes), "School crossing" signs "It's 20 for a reason" signs, and an extended pavement to narrow the road. On top of that, he had a high viz that reached down to his knees and the "STOP - CHILDREN CROSSING" sign. The compensation will probably be enough to buy a six bedroom house with swiiming pool in Plymouth - if he lives.

I would have taken pics, but the police take a dim view of drivers taking photographs from the cab of a moving bus.

You have been warned.

I think the season started nearly 3 weeks ago.

You can't walk through Derby these days without seeing about 3 near-misses in half an hour. 30% of the shops in Derby city centre have closed since the Westfield complex opened (and only 80% of shops inside are occupied!), so I don't know where all the traffic is coming from.

It makes crossing the roads interesting, the lights at the pedestrian crossings are actually pointless since most drivers completely disregard them.

I'm going to start carrying an RPG to work so I can take out any motorists I feel are driving incourteously. Bus drivers are the worst :D

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Originally Posted by wossname

I'm going to start carrying an RPG to work so I can take out any motorists I feel are driving incourteously. Bus drivers are the worst :D

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You got a concealed-weapons permit for that RPG bud? ;)

-Max :D

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Originally Posted by wossname

Bus drivers are the worst :D

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But... but... we are always friendly, helpful and polite, as this news article proves... :lol:

http://www.automopedia.org/wp-conten.../pimpedbus.jpg

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Originally Posted by wossname

I'm going to start carrying an RPG to work so I can take out any motorists I feel are driving incourteously. Bus drivers are the worst :D

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What kind of Role Playing Game allows you to take out motorists? Carmaggedon let you take out pedestrians, but it isn't all that much role playing.

At least you have a season. Australian motorists are bad all year round.

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Originally Posted by penagate

At least you have a season. Australian motorists are bad all year round.

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So are our teenage chick sailors apparently :eek:

Yes... she didn't get far, did she? I hope she wasn't planning on rounding the Horn.

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Originally Posted by penagate

Yes... she didn't get far, did she? I hope she wasn't planning on rounding the Horn.

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must not misquote must not misquote .....

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

What kind of Role Playing Game allows you to take out motorists? Carmaggedon let you take out pedestrians, but it isn't all that much role playing.

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I thought that RPG stood for Role Playing Grenade or is it Rocket Propelled Game. One of the two.

its Random Penguin Gaggle actually

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Originally Posted by chris128

its Random Penguin Gaggle actually

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Ah yes, of course. Now I can understand what Wossy was talking about. Very clever of him, actually.

I drive badly all year round, it stops complaints like this :p. I also drive a challenger tank so I dont really have issues with other cars, people, lollypop men.....busses are problematic but if you hit them head on it normally comes out well (for me anyway). I save the cannon for white vans, I like to get them even if I am not heading in their direction :p

How is everyone, its been AGEEES since I was last on here :)

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Originally Posted by BodwadUK

I drive badly all year round, it stops complaints like this :p. I also drive a challenger tank so I dont really have issues with other cars, people, lollypop men.....busses are problematic but if you hit them head on it normally comes out well (for me anyway). I save the cannon for white vans, I like to get them even if I am not heading in their direction :p

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haha that made me laugh... which is a bad thing as I am now getting strange looks from people across the office from me (probably thinking why isnt he working..) :)

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Originally Posted by BodwadUK

I also drive a challenger

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I always thought of you as 'challenged'.

Good to see you around, your royal wiggidness.

The stretch of M4 motorway between Langley and Slough is really bad too. There is usually a serious collision once a week and many deaths on that stretch. I often wonder how people crash on a straight stretch of road at 11pm in the evening with no one else around.

A couple of weeks a go in London I saw a pedestrian almost flattened after a car decided to randomly start reversing in the middle of the road (he wasn't even parking). When the pedestrian confronted him he shouted "shut up, I'm on the phone you tw*t".

There is a stretch of Highway 86 near me that a few years back seemed like it had a crash on a regular basis. Trucks driving off the edge of the highway from truck drivers falling asleep at the wheel. When they recently repaved that stretch of highway they put ridges on the shoulders of the highway so if you start to wander off the road the bumps are supposed to wake you up. The stretch of highway I'm talking about has hardly anything along it to see at night so drivers tend to fall asleep because it's so striaight.