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where that it had only been three! , I have been tail ended by a lorry, I stopped at the red light, he assumed I wasnt going to. twice I have been driven into from the side as someone pulled out from a side turning, then there was the post office van, I was tail ended by a women in a car as I pulled away from a roundabout and had to stop as a vehicle came round from out of sight. then I have had several rubber on the road near misses as people pulled into the spot I would have been occupying if I had not braked (both cars and lorries), one of the hazards of doing 33,000 miles a year mostly on the M25, but then again that is spread out over 38 years of driving.

next one in place

I had my at fault accident on the second day i had my first car, all the rest of the accidents I have been involved in have been the other drivers fault and unavoidable, including 1 at just a couple of miles per hour when a bus had pulled out at a junction onto the road I was on, and the back of the bus was still just in my lane, i slowed right doen to crawl past and just as I got level with the back end a post office van pulled out to turn right from behind the bus, i had a whole foot in which to react. ever since that first accident I have taken great care to watch out for what traffic around me is doing.

I can think of a large percentage of the driving public that dont understand a solid line means yo cannot cross it, many cars go through the dartford tunnel in the right hand tunnel, then cross the solid line to exit at junction 31 (the solid line extends past junction 31) the number of accedents that happen here and shut at least one of the tunnels is legendary. before they took the toll booths away the signs said no exit at junction 31 for the right hand tunnel.

stern fairleads and one of the fender mounts added

Today i have finished the fender plates, and started fitting the plates to the boat, firstly the plates are polished up prior to the fitting.

now thats just being greedy MM its always your turn, and when its not, Timbo seems to hog a lot of the rest of the turns.

you know that JA just posted that to tempt someone into buying it dont you.

It appears I might be busy tonight, I have to deliver something at 8pm, and dont know when I will get away.

Then of course there is the NDR version

clearly when you mix the blue arrows with the green arrows and reverse the green arrows direction of travel, people have a problem with it

in fairness from the position of the car, he could not have seen the van indicating left anyway, so should have made an assumption that it was going onward rather than turning left. I have had one other instance of a vehicle carving me up in this way on a roundabout, but in that case he clearly pulled to the central lane of the 3 lane roundabout to overtake 3 cars behind me and myself then tried to exit left across the two lanes between him and his exit, I was in the centre lane preparing for a left exit onto a two lane slip road at the next exit, he not only nearly got hit by me (i had been watching him), but also by the car on my left, also proceeding around the roundabout to the next exit. the standard of motoring and any consideration towards other drivers is dropping I believe. in the last week alone I have seen several aftermaths of accidents where cars have been taken out as they cut across the front of lorries at the last minute to get off slip roads (mind you that is normal on the M25), either the sat navs are giving the turn instructions too late or people are just idiots.

here is the river Thurne section of my map currently under production, detail is still being added, but It can be used on the fly from the pdf or printed out (at whatever size you please as I have included a scale bar.) chopped into handy page sized chunks for navigation purposes, other sections might come available as time passes, I do have the whole map as a pdf, but that is currently a huge (22mb ) file. and likewise still to be completed. River Thurne.pdf

it was almost as if the car driver got half way past the van, saw his exit and then totally ignored the fact the van was there, despite not having finished overtaking it.

I have been put into a similar situation - luckily in my case the car and I were indicating, but he was overtaking me round the outside and going round to the next exit (turning right), while I was turning right from 1 exit earlier, both of us slowed to give way to the other, then he let me through. (2 lane roundabout onto 2 lane dual carriageway) so yes while you can still get caught out, indicators do help (as does assuming the other vehicle will do the worst possible manoeuvre at the worst possible time- all the time).

from what I can see that is just atrocious driving, the cause is the idiot cutting across the front of the other vehicle after attempting to overtake on the roundabout. down here near / in london, if they tried that their car would have been written off within hours of them getting on the road.

plate neatened and 2 more plates done, 9 to go

shame on you Smoggy for suggesting that one of us might- besides, she still has ducklings.

Simon, there are maps available from the boatyards that give a lot of this information, plus I am in the process of trying to create a resource for this forum that details these things too, but mine is not ready yet as it has barely ptrogressed past the base map level, and I am adding detail about things such as moorings on a regular basis.

I have created a vets and wildlife page in the handy information section, and updated the pages with some more information having spent most of my lunch time trawling the internet to search out more details, so if anyone has any links to wildlife rescues or veterinary practices that could be added please let me know.

Also noteworthy is the water bird rescue service 01603 782626

I have now added additional contact details to the listing, including 4 veterinary practices and their locations, please note, this is just a listing for information, so please don't think that we are in any manner endorsing these businesses, these are just the ones I have found by searching the internet, gathered into one place. There are also contact details for several wildlife rescue organizations.

excess speed, Lack of observation, no forward thinking.

I have added a section to the handy information page of the forum for vets and wildlife, and moved it out of the doctors section. it just has the wildlife webpage at the moment, but as information becomes available I will add it to that page. It's available from the link in the forum, but not showing on the link from the top of the page yet. Still working on that.