fidgetfive

@DerbysPolice Since covid the amount of high performance cars and motorbikes using Snake Pass has increased a lot. How many people need to lose their lives before average speed cameras are installed?

@ChrisKirk_ASP @H_H_Gray @DerbysPolice they can, but as someone who uses Snake Pass most weekends the law of averages suggests it was an unfortunate combination of speed vs skill.

@H_H_Gray @DerbysPolice Both can be done without speeding.

@WhatTheNell @H_H_Gray @DerbysPolice they don't, but it's a very reasonable guess. Snake Pass has become a de-facto racetrack on any sunny Sunday. 100s of high performance motorbikes and cars, a substantial minority of which are reckless.

@H_H_Gray @DerbysPolice How do you know it was speed related though?

@BeefTaquitos @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling I've really enjoyed this, appreciate it, thanks.

@fidgetfive @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling Because we all know what is and isn't dangerous. The second that guy pulls away on his phone, I'm all for calling him out and the like. But when they're not endangering anyone, there's no reason to try and unnecessarily ruin peoples' day and spread more shit in peoples' lives.

Every. Second. Of this. I have never seen a cyclist-driver confrontation like this before. And towards the end it seems to jump the shark completely. Thank-you @MikeyCycling for sharing ... more details here youtu.be/Y1ii191NrdA

@BeefTaquitos @MikeyCycling @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine Do the secret police usually wear hi-viz, and have a public youtube channel?

@fidgetfive @MikeyCycling @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine Okay, so you're not a Secret Police type, you're just a massive hypocrite. Seems like your buddy is more the Secret Police informant sort, though. Gotta get that clout by reporting anyone who violates any law, even when not hurting or endangering anyone.

@BeefTaquitos @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling I'm sure I'm in the minority, most people do seem to agree to some kind of 'omerta' around the rules of the road.

@fidgetfive @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling No, it isn't. It's pathetic and everyone hates this kind of thing aside from other petty tyrants who love to see others exert undue control over others.

@BeefTaquitos @MikeyCycling @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine No, I don't always follow the law. I always speed on motorways, I don't always stop for red lights when cycling, I spent longer than an hour outside during lockdowns. But if I'm caught doing that - which I have been - then I accept I knew the law and chose to risk breaking it.

@fidgetfive @MikeyCycling @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine So you'd follow the law no matter what it says, yeah? As long as it's there to protect the public, it should be enforced by random citizens reporting their neighbors to the police?

@BeefTaquitos @MikeyCycling @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine The law couldn't be more specific, the part highlighted removes any ambiguity.

@fidgetfive @MikeyCycling @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine Yay, you've highlighted a shitty law that needs to be more specific and instead of seeing the reality of that you think that enforcing it on people like a powerhungry tyrant is somehow helping rather than hurting everyone.

@BeefTaquitos @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling No - it's ace, the more people doing it all the better for everyone's safety on the roads.

@fidgetfive @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling I don't know how that's relevant but yeah, I've seen a lot of videos of motorcyclists doing stupid shit. Doesn't really mean anything to the positivity of them calling out drivers on their phones while in motion, though.

@BeefTaquitos @MikeyCycling @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine I think the official gov.uk website probably counts as the source of 'intent'.

@BeefTaquitos @MikeyCycling @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine

@BeefTaquitos @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling Oh sorry, I got many motorcyclists crossing solid white lines on blind bends.

@fidgetfive @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling This is a very fragmented thought. You got people on dashcam... doing what? Or is this just you saying that you saw a bunch of them? Why would you even hit "reply" with a statement this incomplete?

@BeefTaquitos @MikeyCycling @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine gen x lad. gov.uk/using-mobile-p…

@MikeyCycling @fidgetfive @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine >accidents caused by stationary cars Okay boomer. I'm guessing this is a manipulative way of saying "drivers on their phone while moving, running into stationary traffic" to pretend it's relevant. Cuz otherwise it's just schizophrenic.

@BeefTaquitos @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling Got a few motorist from my old dashcam - but got a shedload more motorcyclists!

@fidgetfive @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling I enjoy seeing bikers(motorized) call out motorists on their phone. But that's while moving, because that is actually dangerous. This pathetic hall monitor wannabe behavior is the mark of a small person wishing desperately for some control over others.

@BeefTaquitos @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling I respectfully disagree; I think people breaking laws put in place to save lives make things suck. The most likely way any of us will kill another human is whilst driving our cars. Just leave the phone alone, nothing is that important it can't wait.

@fidgetfive @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling >suppose >perhaps >what if The man is sitting, completely stationary. There is no reason to assume anything until he starts moving. Hall monitor wannabes like you are why things suck. Not why things are good.

@BeefTaquitos @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling It is indeed the law. The clearly little danger, perhaps during the period he's in his phone something changes around him. Perhaps someone starts to cross in front of the car and the guy just sets off when he sees the bus in front move? Best to leave the phone alone really.

@fidgetfive @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling This isn't an entitled driver. This is a dude stopped at a light checking his phone. There's literally nothing wrong with that so long as you put it down when you start moving. If it's illegal to look at your phone while stopped at a red light over there, the law is wrong.

@TheZeusGoose @BetBoxing @MikeyCycling @theJeremyVine This driver now has at least six points in his licence. No one needs to have their phone within reach when at the wheel. Either he now changes that behaviour or he’ll be banned soon. Either way we will have one less person driving who lacks basic self control.

@Steviebeemcfc @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling This video was submitted to the police, if he’s broken a law he will have been fined along with the driver.

@fidgetfive @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling Two wrongs don't make a right fella, the point I'm making is he broke the rules by being on the pavement then onto the road endangered himself and others to take a video of a guy stationary in traffic, can you see the hypocrisy

@TheZeusGoose @BetBoxing @MikeyCycling @theJeremyVine I don’t use cameras when on my bike. But for those that do, and those who have dashcams - yep, I think they do make a difference. I’m grateful they spend time doing the job the police don’t have the manpower to do.

@Steviebeemcfc @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling They should both be punished if they broke the law - and part of every submission of video evidence is checking both parties behaviour. But oddly, if the cyclist did break the law, they don’t let the driver off…

@fidgetfive @bensmith81 @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling So pointing out the guy taking the video has been guilty of the above and that he should look at his own bad behaviour is whataboutarry, funny how that works