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Well, @emmaway20 has certainly made a name for herself on Twitter.
If you haven't seen it, she posted that she had definitely hit a cyclist, and she has right of way as she pays road tax.
The police were informed of her post and asked her to get in contact with them..
She's deleted her account already, but there's also a photo that was taken before she did, showing her speedo nudging 100mph. I guess that can't be proven to be on a public road but not the brightest thing to post!
Ooops!I really hope this if a fake viral thing.
This link explains a bit more, albeit biased, but the Norwich Police tweet is a good thing to come from Social media.
http://ipayroadtax.com/no-such-thing-as-road-tax/i...
This link explains a bit more, albeit biased, but the Norwich Police tweet is a good thing to come from Social media.
http://ipayroadtax.com/no-such-thing-as-road-tax/i...
I was just reading exactly that story;
http://road.cc/content/news/84212-norwich-police-s...
One hopes it was bravado and she didn't actually, but you never know
http://road.cc/content/news/84212-norwich-police-s...
One hopes it was bravado and she didn't actually, but you never know
Such usually have a grain of truth in them: she probably had a near-miss and is talking it up, but too stupid to realise that she's broken about three laws in doing so.
Hopefully they will find her (can't be too many people with that name in that area, and her FB account will point to her) and make an example of her.
As I "discussed" with a bus driver the other day: we all have a right to be on the road, but I was here first.
Hopefully they will find her (can't be too many people with that name in that area, and her FB account will point to her) and make an example of her.
As I "discussed" with a bus driver the other day: we all have a right to be on the road, but I was here first.
Very stupid, but hard to prove unless the potential cyclist she knocked off sees this and gets in touch with the police. Either way there isn't much hope for Darwin's finest like this.
Funnily enough in the last month I've had 2 relatively near missus, one very close, both times from young women. Both had pulled out from a side road/lay-by and either not seen me or not judged the speed I was approaching. The most recent case this weekend, I even got a mouthful of abuse when I proceeded to gesture what the f
k she thought she was doing.
Funnily enough in the last month I've had 2 relatively near missus, one very close, both times from young women. Both had pulled out from a side road/lay-by and either not seen me or not judged the speed I was approaching. The most recent case this weekend, I even got a mouthful of abuse when I proceeded to gesture what the f
k she thought she was doing. It looks like there is enough evidence in this to prosecute her on the basis of the other tweets, lkets hipe the Police do the honourable thing.. I kind of feel sorry for her in a way though, clearly not mature enough to be behind the wheel but lets hope this is a wake up call. The post from her employer on road.cc also seems to suggest they arent particularly happy about it though they could do anything from a slap on the wrist and no more doughnut fridays to firing her. Its not like Norfolk is short of jobs...
The other thing that is odd is her age and the road tax comments, I half expect it from motorists in their 40s and 50s but from a 19 year old?... just shows how it all manifests itself into a hatred for cyclists based on a fallacy. Still, I hope she does some jail time, loses her licence and her job, bawls her eyes out for days and all her friends take note.... Can you tell I've stopped feeling sorry for her?!
The other thing that is odd is her age and the road tax comments, I half expect it from motorists in their 40s and 50s but from a 19 year old?... just shows how it all manifests itself into a hatred for cyclists based on a fallacy. Still, I hope she does some jail time, loses her licence and her job, bawls her eyes out for days and all her friends take note.... Can you tell I've stopped feeling sorry for her?!
Driver sounds an idiot and shouldn't be on the road, I got hit by a car last week with the "you dont pay road tax quote"
But....
From reading the road.cc article *if* the road was single lane/narrow it sounds like they could have been both to blame, car and rider going too fast to stop in time on a blind bend?
I'm glad the rider was OK though
But....
From reading the road.cc article *if* the road was single lane/narrow it sounds like they could have been both to blame, car and rider going too fast to stop in time on a blind bend?
I'm glad the rider was OK though
Just caught this story in the press - my first thought was 'silly girl' she just sounds like a normal gobby teenager absolutely positive she knows everything and everyone else is wrong - although it seems she's quite brazenly caused a RTI, left the scene without stopping and feels so entitled by her VED disc that she thinks she's done nothing wrong as it was 'only a cyclist'. She's just begging to be made an example of.
I'm sure if this was in the news section it would be a far more heated exchange, but we shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking that tapping a cyclist is just some minor thing and deserves a 'slap on the wrist' if she'd hit a pedestrian and tweeted laughing about it, it would be pitchforks at dawn.
I'm sure if this was in the news section it would be a far more heated exchange, but we shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking that tapping a cyclist is just some minor thing and deserves a 'slap on the wrist' if she'd hit a pedestrian and tweeted laughing about it, it would be pitchforks at dawn.
S10GTA said:
I think this needs to be moved the the news section, the story is getting bigger all the time.
Nah. There's a sizeable proportion of lunatics on there who'll side with the driver and it'll descend into the normal PH cycle thread muppetry. Cyclists sometimes run red lights, wear lycra and dont pay any road tax so they deserve to be crippled or killed, that kind of thing.Daily Mail are on it now:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328397/Tr...
Last summer I overtook a line of cars queuing on a dual carriageway when some silly girls shouted out the window of her heap Ford Ka about road tax, wanted to go back and educate her about how much VED I was paying on my car compared to hers but thought better of it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328397/Tr...
Last summer I overtook a line of cars queuing on a dual carriageway when some silly girls shouted out the window of her
heap Ford Ka about road tax, wanted to go back and educate her about how much VED I was paying on my car compared to hers but thought better of itEdited by Type R Tom on Tuesday 21st May 18:31
superkartracer said:
Quite. What she doesn't realise from that picture is that if she spent less time being a clueless tart and using her phone whilst driving there's a lovely clear overtake there!Gizmoish said:
okgo said:
Yes, I hope she gets the boot from her reception job at the law firm, would be a proper wake up.
I don't. She's young and stupid, and there are enough people unemployed whose benefits come out of my taxes. She should be re-educated. With a big stick, and possibly a bike.
I hugely dislike this habit which has developed of people tracking down someone who has done something they don't like via FB, Linked-In etc and then contacting their employer/family/friends. It's stalkerish, weird and just wrong.
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