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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> This keeps on happening here and elsewhere where

> these Bell shaped Low bollards are being used. IE

> Ady's Rd.

>

> Drivers cannot see them. In this case the car

> appears to of mounted the pavement


In order to hit them you have to be cutting the kerb quite significantly. For this reason I have very little sympathy, especially in Adys Rd where there are 3 primary schools within 250m of that junction.


herne hilly Wrote:

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> i started reading this and thought the same as

> someone previously, how lovely everyone was being,

> but then everyone went straight to pre judging the

> poor driver. I hope she is ok, as it must have

> been quite frightening.


If you can't make a left hand turn without cutting across the pavement you should: a) wait until the junction is clear b) get a vehicle with proper visibility c) stop driving. The fact that the driver didn't see a bollard shows they didn't see the curb either. Would you have as much sympathy if they hadn't seen a small child?


I'm a driver too, but I recognise that driving a couple of tons of metal around crowded streets is a privilege not a right.

figgins Wrote:

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> Polite notice: pointing out the error in "the car

> appears to of mounted the pavement" is not

> "pedantry".



The Fox has left the Forum.


However apparently he lives by different laws to the rest of us :)) :)) :))


Perhaps he uses the word "pedantry" to mean something other than its normal meaning as well.


His use of "of" instead of "have" has driven me mad (der) for some considerable time.

This topic is so far gone that I may as well Lounge it with this thought - language, and particularly English, radically changes over time, usages which were once common and thought 'correct' are now archaic. We all start catching usages as they change and feel uncomfortable about their direction, but although correcting them in students when they are over-anticipating that change will (probably) be helpful to those students, particularly where they are looking for employment amongst people still more comfortable with the old usage, making such corrections on fora (unless the newly adopted usage actually leads to confusion) probably ain't worth a candle.

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> Umm......I hardly like to raise this and it's only

> my preference but does "me only " sound odd to

> anyone else ?

>

> Or is it only me ?


I think it sounds odd to you, and you only.

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