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Old January 17th 09, 07:52 AM posted to uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling
Doug[_3_]
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Default Woman crushes neighbour's car

Not content with killing and injuring people and knocking down walls,
motorists can crush cars, which clearly demonstrates how very much
more dangerous cars are than bicycles.

"So very, very hard to explain away.

After all, the woman driver of this £18,000 Mercedes was only trying
to perform a three-point turn.

But as she found out to her - and her neighbours' - cost there's
getting it wrong and getting it very wrong.

So instead of putting her foot gently down on the brake she somehow
slammed it on the accelerator and drove up on top of the £10,000
Chrysler Neon parked in a drive in Ashtead, Surrey..."

More + pics.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...bours-car.html

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Old January 17th 09, 09:47 AM posted to uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling
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Doug wrote:
Not content with killing and injuring people and knocking down walls,
motorists can crush cars, which clearly demonstrates how very much
more dangerous cars are than bicycles.

Do you have a point?


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Old January 17th 09, 10:02 AM posted to uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling
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Doug wrote:
Not content with killing and injuring people and knocking down walls,
motorists can crush cars, which clearly demonstrates how very much
more dangerous cars are than bicycles.

"So very, very hard to explain away.

After all, the woman driver of this £18,000 Mercedes was only trying
to perform a three-point turn.

But as she found out to her - and her neighbours' - cost there's
getting it wrong and getting it very wrong.

So instead of putting her foot gently down on the brake she somehow
slammed it on the accelerator and drove up on top of the £10,000
Chrysler Neon parked in a drive in Ashtead, Surrey..."

More + pics.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...bours-car.html

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In an unrelated incident

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/40...nto_tra ffic/

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Old January 17th 09, 11:22 AM posted to uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling
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Default Woman crushes neighbour's car

"Doug" wrote in message
...
Not content with killing and injuring people and knocking down walls,
motorists can crush cars, which clearly demonstrates how very much
more dangerous cars are than bicycles.


"So very, very hard to explain away.


No, not really. The driver made a mistake. Simple as that.

After all, the woman driver of this £18,000 Mercedes was only trying
to perform a three-point turn.


But as she found out to her - and her neighbours' - cost there's
getting it wrong and getting it very wrong.


So instead of putting her foot gently down on the brake she somehow
slammed it on the accelerator and drove up on top of the £10,000

Chrysler Neon

BWAHAHA since when has a mid-90s Neon been worth £10,000??? It's worth £500
max!!

parked in a drive in Ashtead, Surrey..."


More + pics.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...bours-car.html


What's your point Duhgtard? A woman made a mistake, no harm done, and the
owner of that ****ty neon will get a far better motor with the insurance
payout.
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Old January 17th 09, 11:38 AM posted to uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling
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"Mike P" wrote in message
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"Doug" wrote in message
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So instead of putting her foot gently down on the brake she somehow
slammed it on the accelerator and drove up on top of the £10,000

Chrysler Neon


Anyone who makes that sort of mistake probably should not be driving.

To accelerate that hard suggests that she really rammed her foot down - even
if she was intending to hit the brake, why was she braking so hard?

The worst mistake I've made was to forget that my car was still in gear when
I arrived at the end of a journey and let the clutch up - the car lurched a
foot or so before I got the pedal down again. I blame SWMBO (*) who
distracted me from my normal routine of clutch-down, gear lever into neutral
and waggle it to prove it, clutch up, engine off.

BWAHAHA since when has a mid-90s Neon been worth £10,000??? It's worth
£500 max!!

A woman made a mistake, no harm done


Apart from writing off a perfectly good car.

and the owner of that ****ty neon will get a far better motor with the
insurance payout.


I doubt it: the insurance money will probably not be able to replace the car
with one of the same standard, plus he's got the hassle of being without a
car while he is car-hunting.


(*) Thanks, John Mortimer (RIP) for popularising that phrase!


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Old January 17th 09, 12:56 PM posted to uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling
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Default Woman crushes neighbour's car

Brimstone wrote:
Doug wrote:
Not content with killing and injuring people and knocking down walls,
motorists can crush cars, which clearly demonstrates how very much
more dangerous cars are than bicycles.

Do you have a point?


Just proving once again that he can in fact read the Daily Wail on line
edition.

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Duhg Bollens view of the Holocaust.

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emissions by moving in November 2007. We're still waiting.
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Old January 17th 09, 01:01 PM posted to uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling
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Hi Doug,
I'm surprised you did not pick up on a story in Bournemouth -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7829022.stm

Woman decided to park her car on the road outside her house as It was her
"right" - unfortunately blocking in an ambulance attending a heart attack
victim who subsequently died.
Que motorists defending the indefensible - would have died anyway - blah
blah blah
question use of "right" ? check local paper


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Old January 17th 09, 01:07 PM posted to uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling
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On 17 Jan, 10:38, "Mortimer" wrote:
"Mike P" wrote in message


A woman made a mistake, no harm done


Apart from writing off a perfectly good car.

And luckily no one was in the way this time to get killed. Still, it
would have just been regarded as an 'accident' wouldn't it and the
vulnerable dead victim naturally blamed for getting in the way of the
car.

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Old January 17th 09, 01:11 PM posted to uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling
Marc[_2_]
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Default Woman crushes neighbour's car

John Wright wrote:
Brimstone wrote:
Doug wrote:
Not content with killing and injuring people and knocking down walls,
motorists can crush cars, which clearly demonstrates how very much
more dangerous cars are than bicycles.

Do you have a point?


Just proving once again that he can in fact read the Daily Wail on line
edition.

But, why would he want to ?
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Old January 17th 09, 01:12 PM posted to uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling
Doug[_3_]
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Default Woman crushes neighbour's car

On 17 Jan, 12:01, "Tooomy" wrote:
Hi Doug,
I'm surprised you did not pick up on a story in Bournemouth -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7829022.stm

Woman decided to park her car on the road outside her house as It was her
"right" - unfortunately blocking in an ambulance attending a heart attack
victim who subsequently died.
Que motorists defending the indefensible - would have died anyway - blah
blah blah
question *use of "right" ? *check local paper

There are so many I can't get them all and some are not even reported
by the media, bearing in mind that there are about 9 deaths every day
and 70 serious injuries.

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