Daily brown pants

[Junkman]

owww this one today made me wince, Dorset ain't getting any better.

 

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/13585412.Man_suffers__potentially_life_changing__injuries_in_two_van_crash/

 

To be fair, it looks violent enough.

Had to chuckle re. the always together on the blue van, though.

[STUNO]

Combine BMW driver, ice and speed. And add 3 bald tyres. Fortunately nobody died. It seems that Mr BMW is to spend a bit of time away from his loving family.

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

mr bmw driver was perhaps a little unwise to argue with an landrover methinks!

[philibusmo]

Here is possibly my favourite ridiculous local news story of ever. I haven't been able to find it online, but luckily* for you lot, it was cut from the paper and is currently being used as a bookmark, plus I can be arsed to transcribe it to you.

 

Tiverton Gazette - Tuesday February 17th, 2015

 

Vintage car damaged in M5 Fiasco

 

Pair used Peugeot to push rare Fiat 500

 

A BUNGLING recovery driver was caught using his car to push a rare vintage Fiat along the slow lane of a motorway after the tow bar snapped.

Mark Fox and his friend Benjamin Baker caused £3,000 damage to the classic Cinquecento car when it crashed on its side on the M5.

Police patrol officers were astounded to find the pair driving down the motorway at 1am with their Peugeot pushing the Fiat in front of it.

The men had tipped the car upright after their initial crash and used the spare tyre as a makeshift fender to protect the back of the Fiat and the front of the Peugeot.

The car crashed when the tow broke as they were pulling off the M5 at Sampford Peverell to take a break after driving from Barrow in Furness.

They told police they planned to push the car 15 miles along the motorway to Exeter Services where they hoped to get a friend to help them.

Owner Lynsie Caddy had always dreamed of owning a classic Fiat 500 and spent 30 years saving up before finding one which she planned to restore at her home in Truro.

She hired a Plymouth based firm called Foxy's Recovery without realising that it did not even own a low loader and that its boss had no licence because of two previous convictions for dangerous driving.

Fox promised to use a recovery truck for the 830 mile round trip from one end of Britain to the other but instead fired a towbar attachment to his friend Baker's Peugeot.

Fox, aged 43, of Henderson Place, Plymouth, and Baker aged 41 of Wyndham Street, West Plymouth, both admitted dangerous driving. Fox also admitted driving whilst disqualified and without insurance.

Fox was jailed for 12 months and Baker for 4 months, both suspended for two years by judge Phillip Wassall at Exeter Crown Court. Fox was also ordered to go on a thinking skills course.

The judge told them: "I cannot think of a set of factors that cries out more for a thinking skills programme than this. It was a quite bizarre decision to take."

"If a car or a truck had come along at a higher speed they would have had very little chance to avoid you and the result could have been tragedy."

Miss Felicity Payne, prosecuting, said Lynsie Caddy has spent years and years saving up to buy the classic car.

She said: "She was distressed that when she finally found one it was destroyed in this way. It needed £3,000 repairs but Fox told her he could fix it for £500 and it wasn't worth that sort of money anyway."

Mr Nigel Hall, for Fox said he was a disqualified driver but was within the law to steer the car while it was towed. He only started driving illegally when it was pushed rather than pulled.

His previous offences of dangerous driving happened many years ago but he could not get his licence back because he kept falling the theory test. He said Fox was a family man and "a good egg".

He had been unemployed and was persuaded by the JobCentre into starting his own recovery business but it only bought in about two jobs a month.

Mr Joss Ticehurst, for Baker, said he had got involved to help his friend and had been acting responsibly by pulling off to take a break when the tow parted company and the Fiat crashed.

[Richard]

Here it is, complete with comments but unfortunately no picture.

 

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Plymouth-recovery-truck-man-pushed-vintage-car-M5/story-26016891-detail/story.html

[inconsistant]

I like the stupidity stories more than the injury ones.

[Grundig]

Double parking in Manchester

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11890398/45k-Porsche-crushed-by-van-in-rush-hour-crash.html

[Richard]

Look at the picture on this one in my local rag http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/lucky-escape-as-bungled-bump-start-causes-car-to-roll-into-fife-loch-1.902276It would be a great calendar picture, it's a shame it doesn't qualify.

 

[Richard]

Charles Ingram, who has been living at the side of the A9 for about three years, was evicted today.

 

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/a9-camper-charles-ingram-evicted-1.902794

[SOUL]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-34499664