Video: Russian commuter's brush with death as brakes fail on speeding
bus
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:39:58 -0700 (PDT)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1221606/Video-Russian-Commuters-brush-death-brakes-fail-speeding-bus.html
Youve must play the video to see how lucky this guy really is.
McK ...
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Driver rescued from cliff plunge
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:31:42 +0100
How the flipping hell do these drivers manage to
drive over a cliff!?
Bod ...
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Re: BMW Driver training
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:02:09 +0100
Bod <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Yeh, or maybe "BMW" means "An old Reliant Robin"
> in Italian.
Or maybe you, Bloater and Dickwadsworth are terminally clueless? No,
hang on, there's no "maybe" about that. ...
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Re: BMW Driver training
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:47:37 +0100
Bod <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Ok, explain (in straightforward terms) how one
> "gets the chance to trash a BMW safely in a
> controlled manner" whilst being supervised around
> the circuit, *without* actually *trashing* a BMW?
I've never claimed that the BMW is *not* trashed, far from it I clearly
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Unable to see through a windscreen
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:09:16 +0100
On Friday afternoon I was pottering home from work, following an artic,
a van and some forgettable Korean/Czech/Malaysian/Whatever car down a
short length of dual carriageway leading to an industrial estate.
There's a roundabout halfway along where traffic turns right into the
estate and the first exit (straight o ...
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Personal meet with BMW driver
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:04:25 +0100
Returning home from the beach yesterday on a clear and warm day on an empty
road we were smacked in the rear near side by this driver who was quite
apologetic and who said don't worry about it .
He was leaving the golf club and said he didn't see us when exiting the
entrance to said golf club sheesh.
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Mr Loophole does it again...
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:08:19 +0100
Apparently it's ok to use a mobile phone as a dictaphone while you're
driving:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1220999/Jimmy-Carr-gets-phone-driving-charge-Mr-Loophole-tells-court-He-telling-joke.html
I'm assuming that they were able to prove that he wasn't actually making a
call at the time by ...
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Re: Why flashing headlights is poor driving.
16 Oct 2009 16:04:21 GMT
"PM" <pm@m_.com.invalid> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:
>> I completely fail to see how drivers suddenly become untrustworthy to
>> consider a safe and appropriate speed when the needle on their speedo
>> suddenly reads higher than an arbitrary number.
> It's only you who are saying the ...
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Re: Why flashing headlights is poor driving.
16 Oct 2009 15:04:51 GMT
ChelseaTractorMan <mr.c.tractor@hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:
>>You seem to have avoided my questioning of your "obvious" link between a
>>safe speed and a legal one.
> I made no such link.
You most certainly did - not even three hours ago.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13 ...
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Re: Why flashing headlights is poor driving.
16 Oct 2009 14:59:20 GMT
ChelseaTractorMan <mr.c.tractor@hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:
> (the state decides an upper limit, the driver decides below that based
> on conditions, not understanding that is willful IMHO
We're talking about SAFETY, not LEGALITY. They are, I hope you'd agree,
differ ...
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