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Saw a car this morning(Volvo) being driven into the rising sun - driver had sun-visor up and no sunglasses and a car full of kids.Also saw a car being driven by a woman with a personal plate(on the car).Plate was "COW".
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On the subject of personal plates, I saw my favourite ever the other day:
BA51ARD
On a newish looking 911.
There was a carefully sited black number plate screw at the top right of the 1.
Made me chuckle most of the way home actually.
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Someone at work had "AMP15T" - was always getting pulled up by the police tho'.
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LOL - I've seen that "BA51ARD" plate too, although it was on the back of an old(ish) Jag a few years back in London.
Made me chuckle as well!!
Edited by Chips with everything on 05/03/2008 at 12:03
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It happened yesterday on the M58... Very watery sun, wet ground causing reflections. Cars were pulling on to the hard shoulder when my colleague passed. She nearly hit someone. A little while later a friend of mine passed an accident on the same spot involving around 6-9 cars.
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This morning, on the A565 through Waterloo, Liverpool - a silver A4 speeding Crosby-bound. Instructed by the obvious red light, I stopped at the pedestrian crossing. He came flying up behind, avoided me and sailed through the crossing as two pedestrians were en route across the road.
I caught up with him at the next set of lights. Guess what he had to his ear? Yup - a mobile phone.
Pink fluffy dice.
DB.
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you can see some people driving into the winter sun with the most awful filthy windscreens.......how on earth they can see properly or concentrate i do not know
the funniest one i've heard of for a while, (although it could easily have been a disaster) was a mate of mine who works for a utility company, sat in a cafe with his colleagues at the start of the working day...when one of them noticed a car driving very slowly and erratically, so they all had a gander....someone had only cleared the barest minimum of their windscreen..and was very slowly driving up the main road looking out through a tunnel...and didn't notice the centre island in the road and drove right into it, inc the lamp standard in the middle...(now if i child had been stood there on the way to school)...what are these peope like?
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We are all accidents waiting to happen, and only constant vigilance, and a measure of luck, can prevent them from happening.
Yesterday evening it was very cold and the roads were slightly damp. Pulling out of a parker in front of the house I peered intently into my o/s door mirror, saw that there was a car with main beams or ill-adjusted dipped ones coming up the road but 100 yards or so back, and pulled out, briskly as always. As soon as I was in the carriageway I noticed the moped, whose headlight was extremely dim, perhaps faulty, and whose presence had been masked by the very bright lights behind it, close behind me. Nothing very hairy happened, but I was horrified not to have noticed the moped. As you get older you become lazier about things like turning your head and double-checking not through the mirror but directly. It is well worth doing this as an urban main road at dusk or after dark presents a very complex mass of visual signals, inverted and reduced by a convex door mirror.
It is a rare day when I don't award myself a black mark or two for some driving fault. I reckon yesterday's was worth three conduct marks, which at my first boarding school would have meant a summons to the head's office next morning at breakfast for a homily about how silly you were being this term followed by three or four sharp whacks with a hairbrush. The worst thing about that was that you knew it was going to happen, sometimes for nearly 24 hours.
Edited by Lud on 05/03/2008 at 15:19
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Nice one, Lud! Always knew you had had a proper education! That's why it's called "the Seat of Learning"
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