Four dead in hit and run, Cardiff!
Four dead in hit and run, Cardiff!
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Eighteeteewhy

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7,259 posts

197 months

Allblackdup

3,312 posts

237 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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Shocking!! Just cycled home from the Bay Area and one of the guys was telling me about it as I left. Just Unbelievable!!

JimmyTheHand

1,001 posts

171 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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Words fail - though looks like they have someone - from BBC site 31-year-old man is in custody after a number of collisions in the Ely and Leckwith areas.

rufusgti

2,573 posts

221 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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Browsing in a shop earlier today I overheard a girl crying on the phone saying " the van just drove straight at me". I just presumed her to be a needy student, new to the city. Then my friend text me to ask what was going on in Cardiff. I now realise he probably text me as I'm 31 and drive a white van. Lol.

Silverbullet767

11,282 posts

235 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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rufusgti said:
Browsing in a shop earlier today I overheard a girl crying on the phone saying " the van just drove straight at me". I just presumed her to be a needy student, new to the city. Then my friend text me to ask what was going on in Cardiff. I now realise he probably text me as I'm 31 and drive a white van. Lol.
Remember when you used to only get 1 phone call when you were arrested?

Dave Hedgehog

16,332 posts

233 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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terrible frown

Pferdestarke

7,192 posts

216 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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Beyond shocking.

Attempted murder x11 plus those that got away.

Life surely?

rigga

8,806 posts

230 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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Looking at the map he's hitting people all over the place so not targeting certain inderviduals,just random wrong time wrong place,how bizarre,can you be charged for using a vehicle as a deadly weapon ?

LuS1fer

43,509 posts

274 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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Armed robbery this morning in Dinas Powys too. Poor Police are being run ragged.

tleefox

1,119 posts

177 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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We're working just round the corner from the Heath Hospital at the moment and noticed that the Air Ambulance was constantly up and down late afternoon, then we started hearing about this.

Absolutely terrible, and clearly totally deliberate because of the area covered.

simoid

19,774 posts

187 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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BBC don't mention deaths. Fingers crossed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wale...

JimmyTheHand

1,001 posts

171 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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latest is One woman dead, 11 injured frown - latest bbc link

ukzz4iroc

3,502 posts

203 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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fking scum. He needs to to die.

anonymous-user

83 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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shirleynot said:
Wales....what a lovely place to live! yikes
Yes this kind of thing happens all the time here rolleyes

Bitofbully

394 posts

168 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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Symbolica said:
shirleynot said:
Wales....what a lovely place to live! yikes
Yes this kind of thing happens all the time here rolleyes
Last time I went to Cardiff, I was killed, literally dozens of times. I'm not going back.

daveky

148 posts

171 months

Saturday 20th October 2012
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This probably won't be popular on PH but this maybe another manifestation of the levels of frustration that exist in the UK these days. This frustration often comes out as aggression on the roads as its easier to remain anonymous in a car i.e. you dont have to face people as you would if you acted like that walking down the footpath or in a supermarket. I put it down to the levels of overcrowding (on the roads and generally) and the ostentation/fixation with money that exists. I don't do a lot of miles but not a day goes by without me witnessing this frustration a number of times in the form of undertaking, tailgating, cutting up, queue jumping, inappropriate overtaking, racing around etc.

We've also got a problem with the 'I'm better than you because I've got more money' culture and again you see this on the road all the time. We've all seen some RR/X5 etc. jockeys ragging around and undertaking and clearly they have an inflated opinion of themselves but often if you dig a little deeper you find that they've inherited wealth or are directors of the family business.

Podie

46,649 posts

304 months

Saturday 20th October 2012
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Blimey. Read this is the paper earlier and it was saying 1 dead, we injured - and that was bad enough frown

Wasn't carmageddon re-released yesterday? Is that my over active imagination at work, or just coincidence?

Eighteeteewhy

Original Poster:

7,259 posts

197 months

Saturday 20th October 2012
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daveky said:
This probably won't be popular on PH but this maybe another manifestation of the levels of frustration that exist in the UK these days. This frustration often comes out as aggression on the roads as its easier to remain anonymous in a car i.e. you dont have to face people as you would if you acted like that walking down the footpath or in a supermarket. I put it down to the levels of overcrowding (on the roads and generally) and the ostentation/fixation with money that exists. I don't do a lot of miles but not a day goes by without me witnessing this frustration a number of times in the form of undertaking, tailgating, cutting up, queue jumping, inappropriate overtaking, racing around etc.

We've also got a problem with the 'I'm better than you because I've got more money' culture and again you see this on the road all the time. We've all seen some RR/X5 etc. jockeys ragging around and undertaking and clearly they have an inflated opinion of themselves but often if you dig a little deeper you find that they've inherited wealth or are directors of the family business.
I'm sorry but that's no excuse to start mowing people down.

Podie

46,649 posts

304 months

Saturday 20th October 2012
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Eighteeteewhy said:
daveky said:
This probably won't be popular on PH but this maybe another manifestation of the levels of frustration that exist in the UK these days. This frustration often comes out as aggression on the roads as its easier to remain anonymous in a car i.e. you dont have to face people as you would if you acted like that walking down the footpath or in a supermarket. I put it down to the levels of overcrowding (on the roads and generally) and the ostentation/fixation with money that exists. I don't do a lot of miles but not a day goes by without me witnessing this frustration a number of times in the form of undertaking, tailgating, cutting up, queue jumping, inappropriate overtaking, racing around etc.

We've also got a problem with the 'I'm better than you because I've got more money' culture and again you see this on the road all the time. We've all seen some RR/X5 etc. jockeys ragging around and undertaking and clearly they have an inflated opinion of themselves but often if you dig a little deeper you find that they've inherited wealth or are directors of the family business.
I'm sorry but that's no excuse to start mowing people down.
I didn't read it as an excuse, more a reason why the person probably chose to use a vehicle.

Eighteeteewhy

Original Poster:

7,259 posts

197 months

Saturday 20th October 2012
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Podie said:
Blimey. Read this is the paper earlier and it was saying 1 dead, we injured - and that was bad enough frown

Wasn't carmageddon re-released yesterday? Is that my over active imagination at work, or just coincidence?
It does look like it's just one now. The link has changed it's story now.