10-02-2015, 02:33 PM
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Mitzi Rosanna Steady aged 4
RIP Mitzi, bless her.Killed yesterday evening in Bath, by a runaway 32 ton lorry
Holding hands with her Grandma to cross the road.
Also killed were three men in a car which was crushed
by the lorry.
Very seriously injured is her Gran in intensive care in
a Bristol Hospital.
You will weep when you see her photo bless her.
Take care near the roads x
10-02-2015, 03:16 PM
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Re: Mitzi Rosanna Steady aged 4
I started a thread some time ago about huge tipper trucks that I see almost everywhere since late August 2014, often in threes and fours in convoys.I still see several of them every morning heading up the A5 to turn and head back towards a village road not far away.
We are plagued by them racing through our tiny country lanes around here that a really unsuitable for trucks that size and they are driven in such a manner that I wonder if they get paid per load.
Looking at the subject of this thread I found this: -
The resident explained the steep, narrow road, had recently been overrun by construction deliveries to the primary school just metres from the crash site.....it had caused controversy amongst the locals who claimed that the project would cause traffic safety issues, including an unsafe route to school.
In a council meeting in April last year, the father asked: 'who will be held accountable if a child is killed or seriously injured trying to get to or from school?'
Councillors reassured him measures would be put into place but he claims lorries continued to use the route as a run-through - despite the difficult conditions.
We are still getting fleets of tipper trucks around here and apparently there have been several near misses but nothing seems to be of any concern to anyone in authority as far as I can tell.
I've noticed that around here the main names that I see on these trucks are Northern Companies and I've also noticed a lot of Tipper Driver jobs being advertised all over the country.
Apparently the tipper driver in the Bath crash is 19 so I wonder if this is a mini-boom employing these drivers on short-term contracts with few real checks on their abilities and experience.
19 seems a bit young to me to have had the experience to heave these leviathans around our small town streets and country lanes. stevmk2
10-02-2015, 03:32 PM
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Re: Mitzi Rosanna Steady aged 4
No idea Steve but councils really don't care I remember when they took our crossing lady away we asked for a proper crossing but were told that was too expensive, after the first child was knocked down one of the staff from the council planning section said it needed 3 deaths before we could have a proper crossing ! When we took turns to be the crossing lady they said we weren't trained and banned us from doing it. Seemed they really wanted those 3 deaths.
10-02-2015, 06:06 PM
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Re: Mitzi Rosanna Steady aged 4
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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No idea Steve but councils really don't care I remember when they took our crossing lady away we asked for a proper crossing but were told that was too expensive, after the first child was knocked down one of the staff from the council planning section said it needed 3 deaths before we could have a proper crossing ! When we took turns to be the crossing lady they said we weren't trained and banned us from doing it. Seemed they really wanted those 3 deaths.
As someone posted on another thread very recently, it does seem to be all about money these days and the well-off seem to be doing very nicely.
I noticed the British Chambers of Commerce's chief John Longworth has called for an EU Referendum Vote in 2016, a year earlier than Mr Cameron has promised, to end uncertainty but Labour's Ed Balls has warned an EU Referendum would be "hugely destabilising" to business.
I notice that both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party are hand-in-glove with business and apparently proud of that fact yet businesses seem hell-bent on keeping "the workers" pay as low as they can get away with plus making massive inroads into conditions of employment in order to achieve their professed aim of boosting the economy, meaning making even more obscene profits yet there's NEVER, EVER any mention of freezing management pay, bonuses and conditions of employment.
This is the same John Longworth that said that the money for investment should come from benefits cuts by "means testing universal benefits" and agreed with our local Chamber of Commerce's decision to work closely together to keep wages static in MK and resist increases in the minimum wage for as long as possible.
This is almost exactly as things were in the run-up to the Great War and it's the austerity that hits the working classes / ordinary man-in-the-street the hardest.
Did you note that 435 of the 8,700 prosecuted "Benefits Cheats" were actually sent to prison in 2011 - 2012 but so far there's been precisely ONE prosecution of a money-man? stevmk2
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