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From: Silk on 10 Dec 2009 16:00 On 10/12/2009 20:49, Harry Bloomfield wrote: > Silk formulated on Thursday : >> Even more reason for you to do that Advanced Driving course. > > No, no, I don't want to become obsessed with wheelie bins. :-? It's better than running into them all the time.
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From: R Gower on 10 Dec 2009 19:29 "Harry Bloomfield" <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:mn.54197d9cbe11b581.106911(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk... > Stretch of Leeds DC ring road with a 70 limit. A car reverses at speed out > of a drive, occupied by a male driver plus passenger - with all the > windows obscured externally by rain/dew. Obviously he couldn't see very > much behind him nor hear very much either, because someone had left a > brown bin directly behind the car - which he pushed out into the middle of > the DC. Now I wonder which unlucky individual hit it? > > It was still dark and the bin being dark brown would make it almost > invisible to someone doing the limit down that road. He was going at quite > a speed as he reversed out and the bin must have made quite a noise, but > he either didn't hear it or chose to ignore it - miraculously the bin > remained upright throughout. > > -- > Regards, > Harry If your eyesight is so bad you are unable to see something the size of a bin in a road - even using headlights - you should NOT be driving. How would you see a child or someone in dark clothing? How big does the object need to be before YOU can see it? Also what distance? This just shows a lot of people driving shouldn't be! people with uncorrected eyesight, old people with no reactions or awareness, women who think the mirror is for admiring themselves or people with self declared disabilities that by their very nature would prevent them having the required control or concentration to drive a motor vehicle in accordance with a licence. There are far too many people driving cars about that shouldn't be, mainly because doctors do not report people to the DVLA to have their licences revoked and family members think it's OK for them to kill other people by causing accidents. I suggest you have invented the story for reasons known to yourself as reversing in to a wheelie bin would knock it over and most drivers would notice the impact. So although it was a good try on your part, it isn't a very good story - what was the purpose of posting?
From: Steve Firth on 11 Dec 2009 08:32 Harry Bloomfield <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Yes, but we all know that in the real world most drivers a/ do not look > any further ahead than the ends of their bonnets, b/ drive beyond their > limits and c/ most are not very observant. Add your name to that list.
From: Harry Bloomfield on 11 Dec 2009 12:50
on 11/12/2009, R Gower supposed : > If your eyesight is so bad you are unable to see something the size of a > bin in a road - even using headlights - you should NOT be driving. How > would you see a child or someone in dark clothing? How big does the > object need to be before YOU can see it? Also what distance? Nothing at all amiss with my eye sight chum, but yours or your ability to read and digest need some attention. I said I saw a car reverse out pushing the bin with its rear bumper into the middle of a dual carriageway. I did not hit the bin, I was simply a witness to the event. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |