Not all disabilities are visible, especially when you’re a 6’+ musclebound ape…
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I think this belongs here… but also makes we wonder who needs these massive wagons (photo from Midwest US according the original poster
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Since when are cars just about need? Though in the mid west it’s probably for hauling the 9 kids around.
I rented a giant Ford Expedition a year or two ago, it got better mpg than my Mini (Or Lexus)
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Over the top ? Engage snow plough attachment ?
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So. Fucking. Tempting !
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100 yards further along, this road bisects the south circular.
The crossroads is always an accident black spot, and it’s not unusual to encounter a car missing its nose with airbags deployed that has been dragged to the side awaiting removal.
However in the last 4 or 5 days the area has basically become Death Race 2000. The traffic lights have an intermittent fault - they crap out, chaos ensues, the engineers “fix” them, they go for a few hours then they crap out again.
The lights were working again yesterday evening, however they’ve evidently gone phut again and there’s a very impressive pile up there now. Multiple completely totalled cars, with what appears to be All The Police in attendance currently acting as human traffic lights coordinated via walkie talkie.
At least one of the cars had been a Prius so my money is on Mr Uber being in a bit too much of a hurry.
In between me leaving the house for my morning constitutional and returned half an hour later there has been another accident in the tailback. This one looks like doughnut delivery van giving up and trying to do a U turn to find another route, meanwhile motorcycle was zooming up the outside and has gone splat into the side of the van 
I’m guessing that the local council are under pressure for a permanent fix to the lights. When I walked past the engineers a couple of days ago one of them was saying “but there’s nothing wrong with it, I changed my IP address, connected to 10.10.10 …” 
Assuming the pick up truck in front of you is moving then is the Land Rover actually parked illegally? They’ve avoided blocking a driveway & it isn’t a pedestrian crossing.
If the pick up truck is parked as well, then presumably you went on the grass 
think the drivers door is open on the truck and trailer
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Well spotted.
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Where is that crossroad? Wonder if I go past it and haven’t noticed.
You can get a bus through that…
I’ll fetch me coat.
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Croxted road and Thurlow Park road / the south circular.
Interesting, always seemed like an innocuous crossing to me! Clearly didn’t notice the pileups happening in my rearview mirror as I drove across…
Friday nights seem to be particularly popular for the demolition derby. It always seems to be Saturday mornings when there’s a new junked car 
Except at the moment obvs. The guys in high vis are currently back out there trying to fix it
That really is a shit crossroads. Idiots always trying to beat the lights just as they turn red
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I think that lights in London have an extra delay with all on red, as they know people try to jump them. This leads, of course, to people knowing that they have this extra delay, so they run even more marginal reds…
Pretty much all the lights at crossings near me (NW London) have cameras on them. Especially those with no right turn signs. Aside from the obvious, you’d have to be mad to try driving like that near me.
Well yesterday they weren’t any colour and I saw a builders van (with builders hanging out the passenger window cheering, natch) go sailing through doing about 50.
Pure chance that they didn’t cut someone in two 
South London’s such a dump… 