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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: PeterEPeterE Date: May 28, 2007 13:45
> Seems the hypermobile were particularly affected.
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> "...The roads have been busy with around 18million vehicles taking
> trips, according to the AA.
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> The motoring organisation was called out to 11,000 breakdowns on
> Friday compared with the usual 9,500.
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> "We said that people would still make the most of their weekend and go
> off in their cars and it looks like we were right," said spokesman
> Gavin Hill-Smith.
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> He said a number of the problems were caused by vehicles being driven
> into standing water..."
Presumably the fact that it was freezing cold and pissing down with rain
adds weight to the global warming hypothesis, then...
7C here at about 2 pm :-(
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"If a river bridge were not guarded by a parapet, the slackness of the
defaulting authority deserves the blame, not the people who fall in" -
Lieut. Col. Mervyn O'Gorman.
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