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#2849847 13-Jan-2022 12:43

Way to Advertise your business - NOT!

Plenty, and I mean plenty of legal parks available and yet chose to leave his vehicle here!

SirHumphreyAppleby

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#2896190 3-Apr-2022 13:16

Vehicle lost control at the end of the street this morning. There is an island with a gentle left and right bend before the corner of the street. Heard them from quite a distance and there are tyre marks visible 90m down the road on the bends. Didn't look any further than that.

Reported, but unless one of the neighbours got the registration on their CCTV (mostly motion activated), then they'll probably get away with it. We had a car roll there last year, claiming to be doing a 'U turn'. Yeah right.

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#2907989 28-Apr-2022 17:34

Avoided a head-on collision today with some idiot who came rushing around a blind(ish) corner at full speed... while going the wrong way down a one-way street. How I wish I had got the plate number.

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#2908043 28-Apr-2022 21:54

I'm sure it has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but Dash Cam Owners Australia on Youtube is great watching.

Thier latest upload is quite scary:

Back / Neck broken in 7 different places, Front seat snapped all bolts and landed on top of baby seat in rear, luckily no child in car that day. Driver is recovering well and back on the road now.

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#2908805 30-Apr-2022 19:01

msukiwi:

Way to Advertise your business - NOT!

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Plenty, and I mean plenty of legal parks available and yet chose to leave his vehicle here!

Seen worse/funnier

A local company that specialises in green houses with a dirty diesel ute company car.

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#2911713 8-May-2022 22:02

I drive the Waikato Expressway to get to work. I'm astounded by the number of places where the cheese cutter wire barriers have been damaged. There seems to be an extraordinary number of skirmishes with the barriers even during good weather. I've been wondering how/why these incidents happen.

Tonight on the way home I got an insight into how some of these incidents possibly occur.

Approaching Meremere from the North I catch up to a slower group of cars. From a distance I'd noticed more brake light action than normal and as I got closer I could see cars in the right lane braking and then moving left to pass a vehicle in the right lane.

Eventually I ended up behind this vehicle a Toyota Harrier as it was overtaking a truck and trailer. The Harrier's speed varied between 90 and 100 kph. Once the overtaking manoeuvre had been completed I expected the Harrier to pull over and let me and the other following traffic past. That wasn't to be the case.

I flashed my lights several times to draw attention to the fact that there was following traffic that wanted to get past. All to no avail. I had to resort to overtaking on the left as did several cars behind me. The driver of the Harrier seemed totally oblivious to what was going on. However it did seem for a short time that they had finally got the message about pulling over after I had moved right to overtake another vehicle then moved left again once passed. They then moved left.

A few k's later the Harrier passes me and I see there is a large phone sitting in a holder fixed to the windscreen just to the left of the drivers side pillar. The driver was watching something on the screen which looked like a football match. I could see enough detail to see it certainly wasn't a navigation app screen.

No wonder some people go spearing off the road in places and conditions you wouldn't expect, through distractions like this.

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#2911723 8-May-2022 23:11

You need to get your own phone into action.

"A driver may, while driving a vehicle, use a mobile phone if—
(a)
the driver is using the phone to make a 111 or *555 call; and
(b)
it is unsafe or impracticable for the driver to stop and park the vehicle to make the call."

Just go straight to 111.

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#2912076 9-May-2022 22:00

Bung: You need to get your own phone into action.

"A driver may, while driving a vehicle, use a mobile phone if—
(a)
the driver is using the phone to make a 111 or *555 call; and
(b)
it is unsafe or impracticable for the driver to stop and park the vehicle to make the call."

Just go straight to 111.

I seriously considered calling *555 as it wasn't an emergency I didn't think it appropriate to call 111. However my previous experience calling *555 and listening to elevator music for over 20 minutes while holding to speak with someone made me decide not to bother.

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#2917794 24-May-2022 08:41

They repainted the Yellow Lines at the corner last night. Went down and looked this morning and saw the same m*r*n parked where he has done for the last 2 years!

While they have a Chat! (Consulate Security Changeover!)

Waste of paint!

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#2917798 24-May-2022 08:56

Buy a Dunger for 1000$, insure it for 2500$ , A spider dropped into your Lap. Crash into his illegally parked car, Hope he has insurance, or claim on yours.

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#2922141 3-Jun-2022 10:27

As witnessed by Mrs Floyd a couple of weeks back.

Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?

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#2922199 3-Jun-2022 11:10

Did the van overtake Mrs Floyd and give a better look at number plate prior to this?

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#2922209 3-Jun-2022 11:37

Bung: Did the van overtake Mrs Floyd and give a better look at number plate prior to this?

The number plate was visible earlier on. It was reported to police (with a longer version of the video that shows the plate number) and the driver (or the owner I guess) got a warning. Mrs. was asked if she wanted him/her prosecuted but she might then have to be a court witness and she didn't fancy that.

Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?

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#2922221 3-Jun-2022 12:19

Why is it that so many people are unable to execute 90 degree turns into side roads? Every day I see lazy drivers turn across the front of the wrong lane instead of properly into the correct one.

The other day I was out on my Spyder and a young driver missed my nose only because I was awake and braked hard as I approached the junction.

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#2922238 3-Jun-2022 12:48

Take your pick, too much mobile phone or belly in front of them to steer properly.

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