Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
strange goings on on the york sreet roundabout junction with snagate/york street,a largish moterbike parked up against the street furiture iseland,all tied up with blue police tape.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The beginnings of a Fair-Ground attraction?
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Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
- Posts: 1,052
There was a snarl up there yesterday afternoon and emergency services were working alongside/underneath an HGV so possibly it was involved in that.
Guest 699- Registered: 3 Jun 2010
- Posts: 292
accident about 3 ish , heard from someone from when it happened to first blue light arriving took 10 minutes
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
let's hope it wasn't as serious as the one last week.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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This roundabout is so dangerous if you are trying to exit onto York Street because you have no idea whether the foreign trucks entering from Snargate Street are going to give way or not.
A Bulgarian truck driver called TruckerBoy22 has posted a load of mobile phone recordings of his travels on YouTube.
The one linked to below shows him going round the York Street roundabout with two cars desperately crossing in front of him as he does not give way.
Despite having travelled all over England for over a year he thinks he is in the right and the English drivers are "bad" as per his comment:
"This is trip from Dover (england) - Dunkerque (france). In england have some "bad" drivers like this on 3:10"
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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That video gives me the impression that the truck rather liked the idea of being on the ferry the driver was looking at, his truck seemed to drift a little to the right.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,673
Experience this nearly every day and you have to be so wary of the foreign lorry drivers.
Worse than those not giving way as the ones that fail to understand the ROUND in roundabout and cross over into the middle when going straight ahead.. .
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 761- Registered: 10 Jul 2012
- Posts: 115
Video is particularly worrying in that the camera is clearly being moved around the cab whilst filming. Unless he had a passenger doing it he was filming whilst driving!
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I saw this bike on my way home from London last night, lets hope no one was seriously hurt.
Just watched that video, Ed, it beggars belief that he thinks he is in the right, surely after driving on British roads for some time now he should know the rules by now. This roundabout is particularly dangerous as is many others around Dover, one has be alert to the foreign traffic at all times.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yes colette all 4 from western hieghts to york street are particuly dangerous,at least one accident a day occurs with out fail.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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http://www.crashmap.co.uk/Search
The above is, as it makes clear, a map of road 'accidents', I am not sure where it will centre when you use the link, but you can get results from any locale.
From...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/30/uk_crash_map/ Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
He is obviously a lorry driver who thinks because he is big he has right of way, even when he is wrong.
That camera was not fixed nor was his lane keeping, a lot of swerving around which strangely enough coincided with camera angles changing.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
it is drummed into us the etiquette of driving in france, the various things like hi viz vests, spare bulbs, breathyliser etc so a professional truck driver has no excuse.