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Accident caused by traffic cone?

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  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
    Do we know if the cone is ok..?
  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
    specialboy wrote: »
    I have been on driving courses any years ago and when driving in traffic I'm not only watching the car in front, I watch the car in front of them, this gives me more time to anticipate what might happen.

    Isn't that just common sense?
  • topdaddy_2
    topdaddy_2 Posts: 1,408 Forumite
    Why not put the cone on the footpath? Funniest thing Ive heard in ages. Ben you have won idiot of the day.
  • facade
    facade Posts: 7,870 Forumite
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    harveybobbles wrote: »
    Isn't that just common sense?


    Or anticipation. It is the difference between following 6 feet behind a bus and sitting behind it at every stop, and leaving enough space to see round it and safely overtake it when it does stop. (As I know where all the bus stops are on my way to work, guess which driver is me)
    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • Nick_C
    Nick_C Posts: 7,638 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Home Insurance Hacker!
    With a 30 foot gap, the maximum safe speed would be less than 17 mph
  • DevCoder
    DevCoder Posts: 3,362 Forumite
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    Won't anyone think of the [STRIKE]children [/STRIKE] umm [STRIKE]traffic cone [/STRIKE] umm I mean children.

    traffic-cone.jpg
  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
    Lol!!!!!!!!!!
  • neilmcl
    neilmcl Posts: 19,460 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    krisdorey wrote: »
    Won't anyone think of the [STRIKE]children [/STRIKE] umm [STRIKE]traffic cone [/STRIKE] umm I mean children.

    traffic-cone.jpg
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Brilliant..
  • Spank
    Spank Posts: 1,751 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    mattyprice4004 wrote: »
    It was lovely meeting you too, and as a sarcastic retard I've reported your post. Enjoy your ban. :rotfl:

    'I'd like to report this post because the mean man on the Internet called me a retard'



    Just be thankful he didn't call you a pleb :eek:
  • topdaddy_2
    topdaddy_2 Posts: 1,408 Forumite
    Spank wrote: »
    Just be thankful he didn't call you a pleb :eek:

    But he wont be banned;)
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