Watch out for rocks

[cyberknight]

You think thousands of pounds should be spent building a kerb island to help protect people who won't avoid driving themselves into a rock that's been there for years (give or take the legend of occasional trips up the hill to roll itself back down to the same location), but no money should be spent helping protect children from buses rushing to catch up to increasingly unrealistic profit-driven timetables?

I didnt say that , i said the parents knew it was a busy road and yet failed to stop the child from getting on the road in the 1st place .

 

[mjr]

I didnt say that , i said the parents knew it was a busy road and yet failed to stop the child from getting on the road in the 1st place .

I notice that there's no link to the source story so we've only got your word for that. Yes or no, do you think that it's fair punishment for a child getting on the road to be killed and nothing more should be done to encourage motorists to drive at a speed that will allow them to stop well within the distance they can see to be clear especially near particularly vulnerable pedestrians such as children?

 

[cyberknight]

I notice that there's no link to the source story so we've only got your word for that. Yes or no, do you think that it's fair punishment for a child getting on the road to be killed and nothing more should be done to encourage motorists to drive at a speed that will allow them to stop well within the distance they can see to be clear especially near particularly vulnerable pedestrians such as children?

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Road-safety-priority-tot-hit-bus/story-29014727-detail/story.html
You seem to have mistaken the fact that im saying that they should look after the child and not make the road better , im not , im saying that they have a responsibility as well .they know the road conditions and seem not to have been capable of ensuring the safety of the toddler by not letting an 18 month old run onto the road .

 

[R_nger]

I've cycled past that rock twice this week...it would appear to be a dead end road and I guess you wouldn't casually use this road, so either i) the driver was local and should have known better or ii) they were unfamiliar with the road and should have known better.

Either way, failing to observe something that size in the middle of the road should be an embarrassment...not something you go shouting about !

 

[Beebo]

This happened in Italy a couple if years ago. The rock came straight down the mountain and through a house.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

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This happened in Italy a couple if years ago. The rock came straight down the mountain and through a house.

So it was a Rolling Stone?

 

[jefmcg]

I've cycled past that rock twice this week...it would appear to be a dead end road and I guess you wouldn't casually use this road, so either i) the driver was local and should have known better or ii) they were unfamiliar with the road and should have known better.

Either way, failing to observe something that size in the middle of the road should be an embarrassment...not something you go shouting about !

I was curious, so had a look in google maps. If anyone is interested, here it is. Yeah, there is really no excuse.

Except perhaps this ...

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Road-safety-priority-tot-hit-bus/story-29014727-detail/story.html

18-month-old granddaughter Lyla-grace was knocked down and injured by a bus in August last year.

"She went underneath the front of the bus and came out at the back wheels. She had a big cut across her head, a nasty graze on her elbow and was covered in bumps and bruises.

If a bus driver can drive over a toddler without stopping, then hitting a grey rock on a grey road has to be acceptable. And said toddler can't have stepped out suddenly, or she'd have been under the wheels. She must have found her way into the middle of the road before the bus got there.

 

[DaveReading]

to encourage motorists to drive at a speed that will allow them to stop well within the distance they can see to be clear especially near particularly vulnerable pedestrians such as children?

All good in theory, but unless you perpetually drive at walking space it will always be possible for a child to run out into the road with no warning within your thinking+stopping distance (40ft at 20mph).

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

They should put the lamppost back

After that car knocked it down avoiding the rock?

 

[psmiffy]

The rock has been in place for 11,000 years

As an aside I suspect the rock has been there for a bit longer than that - maybe 0.5My

 

[DRM]

So it was a Rolling Stone?

I would say yes, I can't see any moss on it

 

[PeteXXX]

As an aside I suspect the rock has been there for a bit longer than that - maybe 0.5My

I merely quote the BBC article alluded to in the OP

 

[psmiffy]

I merely quote the BBC article alluded to in the OP

It is quite interesting - Ive probably driven through there - and not noticed it as being anything other than an ornamental stone - ive not seen an erratic on the surface like that in the three counties - make me wonder about its provenance

 

[jefmcg]

It is quite interesting - Ive probably driven through there - and not noticed it as being anything other than an ornamental stone - ive not seen an erratic on the surface like that in the three counties - make me wonder about its provenance

Apparently it was picked up by a glacier in Derbyshire, and left behind in Soulbury.

 

[psmiffy]

Quite possibly - im not an expert on these things - but it probably wasnt the last glaciation - didnt come far enough south - and I suspect maybe not even the one before that - in that area typically chalky boulder clay from the humber - Ive seen carboniferous erratics like this in the till around Daventry but always buried below more recent chalky boulder clay