BMW driver - who else?

"Dougal" wrote

I thought they all drove Audis now. :-)

Steve

Photos here:

Maybe a nice lane to try in a Land Rover though if it is legit :-)

"Mr Jones, from Doncaster" ... Oh the shame!

On the up-side, anyone fancy a spot of green-laning, near Bradford?

Nothing new there then. My folks live down a half mile dirt track - which obvuiously isn't a through road, yet they still keep following the sat nav down and getting stuck trying to turn around. The local farmer is doing quite well for ?50 a tug ;-)

And story, I like the quote:

"I've heard of lorries getting stuck on village roads before but this really takes a lack of common sense to a whole new level."

He must have been an idiot to the ring the police (no doubt complaining about the state of the road) but the worrying thing for the rest of us is the police taking action for careless driving. Next time you get stuck on a green lane it's careless driving???

Is this a road to which the Road Traffic Act applies? It's one of those green diamond indications on the 1:25000 OS whatever that really means. Is losing traction careless driving?

I hope that he gets off on the careless driving count but he does deserve to be hit heavily in the pocket for being such a dimwit.

Nine hours to extricate him from this - is it possible to drag the task out that long?

We'll all be murdered in our beds!

On or around Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:36:29 +0000, Dougal enlightened us thusly:

I read it that he'd ended up in a stupid place as a result of blindly following the GPS, which, I'd have to agree, constitutes driving without due care and attention. You are meant to look out of the window... it's like the one not long ago that got stuck on the railway line, because the GPS said "turn left now". It should be evident that "now" doesn't mean drive off side of the level crossing.

No, he professes to be a "professional driver" (drives for his living) he must have doing what all drivers should do in the case of accident damaging anothers property, reporting the accident to the police. Ho ho...

The BBC say DWDC&A, the local rag says CD. We don't know what the charge really is. A CD charge might not stick but DWD&C should and as he is supposed to be a "professional driver" deserves to have the book thrown at him.

I just showed the pictures from the local rag to my 9 year old lad:

Would you drive car down there? No.

Do you think it's a place a car should be? No.

What do you think this is (waving mouse pointer over ground in front of quad bike)? A track.

If a nine year old can see that a car should not be there and it's not a road a professional driver shouldn't have any difficulty.

I think the problem is these people program for " Shortest route" instead of "Quickest route" and the computers just look for the straight line between points even if it takes hours longer. I once had one try to send me down a Bridleway and despite being in a BMW I didn't follow it's instructions. Quite why a Bridleway was included as a road on the mapping is beyond me.

Eight hours to get a recovery vehicle willing to go down there, 30 mins for a brew, 30 mins to pull him out

In message , Dougal writes

If I open a gate and drive across a field am I driving without due care and attention?

there was a picture of a large quad pulling at it

On or around Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:02:19 +0000, snipped-for-privacy@wylie.me.uk (Alan J. Wylie) enlightened us thusly:

nice comments on that site, too.

including one which is probably his brother, saying that he can't believe the careless driving rap and the amount of abuse he's getting...

and a couple reported as "unsuitable"...

What a spunktrumpet.

On or around Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:37:28 -0000, "Nige" enlightened us thusly:

did you clock the pictures from the Halifax rag? I'd think twice about trying to drive down it in the rangie...

If they are charging him its a road. (or any other land to which the public have access - for the likes of a supermarket carpark and boy racers who bump in to / kill folk.)

If it weren't they would be looking at something like a charge of Driving on land other than a road, which I recall comes in to effect 12m or is it yards? from the nearest road and I guess would be more applicable to commons and downs etc etc.