Road Safety

. . . and the driver of this grey Vauxhall Astra cabriolet, registration S2 SCU is busy texting away as the car comes to a stop, . . . oblivious to the green light ahead, she sits there working on her Very Important Text, secure in the knowledge that texting isn’t distracting, and that she’s...
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While I was looking up information on texting- or phone-driving accidents yesterday, I found this video on the RoSPA site : Now normally, I’m not such a fan of RoSPA’s "we know best" attitude that seems to come across in their publications. But this one’s pretty sound - it takes a balanced view, without necessarily...
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Here’s a confession in two parts: My father used to drink and drive. Every Friday night, he’d go out and get thoroughly tanked up, then drive home. He’d usually make it half way, before abandoning the car, and Saturday mornings were then spent in a hilarious parody of a treasure hunt, trying to find said...
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Why do we remember still the horrors of the First World War? Is it because this was the first photographed war ? The poetry it inspired? The lost generation? The shear enormously overwhelming scale of the senseless slaughter? In the first 24 hours of the Battle of the Somme, 19,240 died on the British side...
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Another one of those synchronicity things I guess. Quickrelease.tv reports on Peter Drew ’s guerrilla road markings in Adelaide, in the same week that I discover Toronto’s Urban Repair Squad . . . and I finish the artwork for a project I’ve been contemplating for months . . . . . . we live...
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One of the guys in the office has a yacht. I’m not talking about a dinghy, but a proper, pucker yacht. The kind of thing that you could use for sailing across oceans in comfort and style. Anyway, he says that the most dangerous thing on a boat is the calendar . You...
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Take a look at this film from Andyb0000 on YouTube - pause it and note down the time in the film at which you’d identified what was going to happen: Thankfully, Andy is on the mend, but his footage raises some interesting questions about the degree of vigilance that’s needed to ride on the roads...
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The car was at the menders today, and I had to get there to pick it up & take Daughter & friends to their Kung-Fu thing. As is normal in these circumstances, the wind had instantly changed direction and stiffened considerably as soon as I set off from work, so I had a real...
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There’s a reason that fewer women than men seem to ride their bikes in the UK. As explained in Beauty & The Bike , it’s the infrastructure - we’re expected to just mix in with the traffic, and it often just doesn’t feel safe, whatever the official statistics say. Warning: sweeping generalisations ahead. The thing is,...
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Big ride today - nearly 80 miles playing in the hills of County Durham, getting as far as Wolsingham & then coming home via Durham and the Angel. I had an incident at a set of lights that made me question the safety of my pedantic attitude to red lights. You see, when I...
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