A grim Fri night on Northants' roads

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

Did anyone else see the local paper today - 4 killed on our local roads on Friday night in three separate incidents

Looks like two were overtaking manoeveres gone wrong.

Be careful out there lads and lasses.

[mark r skinner]

A friend of a friend was killed in a motorcycle crash. On friday I think ? Chaple Brampton ? His wife recently had a baby. Doesn`t get much worse.

[Blipi]

Very sad

Yep, will take care as I don't want harm coming to me or little Blipi.

[matt172]

more news about it here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/no
looks like even more fatalities

[tyre_tread]

And the others here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/no

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

And there were two killed in a Scooby when it left the road up in Chapel Brampton as well, plus another motorbike accident in Whittlebury where the rider (from Chapel Brampton) was killed and the driver of the car's been charged with DbyDD (I think)

Crikey

[tyre_tread]

Problem with all these crashes (apart from the obvious sad consequences for the families) is it will see even more white paint and restrictions on the roads to cater to the lowest common denominator.

[matt172]

I see on the bbc website another 2 fatalities on Northants roads last night

[davyboy]

What the hell is going on?

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

Weird isn't it ? And there were an additional two fatalities on Fri/Sat as well as the four already mentioned.

So, that's 8 since Friday night ? Bonkers.

[mark r skinner]

[davyboy]

Another one.......drive carefully!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/no

[Marki]

Mrs BlueCerbera said:

Weird isn't it ? And there were an additional two fatalities on Fri/Sat as well as the four already mentioned.

So, that's 8 since Friday night ? Bonkers.

Maybe they are just making a point of reporting them now to try to make a point

[tyre_tread]

davyboy said:

Another one.......drive carefully!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/no

I had to divert last night as road was closed - I suspected as much as that road is used as a race track by all and sundry! Speed camera time for sure!

2 BMW's (Z3 and a 320) and a Xsara - any bets on who was racing and who got caught up in their stupidity?

[mark r skinner]

tyre_tread said:

davyboy said:

Another one.......drive carefully!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/no

I had to divert last night as road was closed - I suspected as much as that road is used as a race track by all and sundry! Speed camera time for sure!

2 BMW's (Z3 and a 320) and a Xsara - any bets on who was racing and who got caught up in their stupidity?

Alan, the Desborough by-pass ????? They must`ve been acting like total muppets !

[b.johnson]

davyboy said:

Another one.......drive carefully!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/no

Was that lastnight?!!..... is that 9 in one week???

Edited by b.johnson on Thursday 12th October 13:15

[tyre_tread]

mark r skinner said:

tyre_tread said:

davyboy said:

Another one.......drive carefully!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/no

I had to divert last night as road was closed - I suspected as much as that road is used as a race track by all and sundry! Speed camera time for sure!

2 BMW's (Z3 and a 320) and a Xsara - any bets on who was racing and who got caught up in their stupidity?

Alan, the Desborough by-pass ????? They must`ve been acting like total muppets !

There are plenty of them out there - a few weeks ago a Porsche came over the brow of the hill from the Harborough direction as I was approaching the brow from A14 end- he was on the wrong side of the road overtaking a lorry on the wrong side of the double whites well in excess of three figures and I was coming up the hill overtaking a car as we approached the merge to a single lane. If me and the other guy hadn't been 100% awake we would have been mincemeat!

I see many many stupid things happen on that stretch of road including many instances of slower vehicles pulling out of the lay by's at innapropriate times and races going on between so many different vehicles its untrue. It really is treated as a racetrack - badly designed IMHO!

[Nicol@]

Strange one but luckily no deaths..http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/no

Edited by Nicol@ on Thursday 12th October 14:01

[tyre_tread]

"The elderly woman driver of a silver Suzuki Wagon" - conjure sup an image of an old dear driving a truck but I'm sure they mean one of those boxes on wheels (Wagon R)

Not surprising really as there are now more elderly drivers than ever before and their eyesight and reaction times are not as sharp. I'm sure there's an element of "survival of the fittest" kicking in here!

[b.johnson]

you might find its the old guys wife trying to finish him off????