I seem to remember that it was some sort of particular offence to splash a pedestrian by driving through a puddle.
Well, having got soaked this morning by some eejit I'd like to pursue him all the way to the Court of Human Rights. I have his registration number, where do I begin?
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Report it to the police.
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Human Rights? No chance. Driver will just deny it. Where's your evidence, other than your wet clothes?
Drop it and move on. It's almost the weekend.
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He had a personal plate as well. The guy's going down.
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contact pugugly@ambulance-chasers.co.uk
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Thank you for phoning "Getting Splashed". If you wish to report an incident involving water, press 1.
For slush or snow, press 2
For sand, press 3
For beer, press 4
For gravy, press 5.
For all other kinds of splashing, please place your phone in a bucket of water.
Thank you.
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"contact pugugly@ambulance-chasers.co.uk"
My subscription lapsed some time last year unfortunately. However my advice is S3 RTA Offence of Careless or Inconsiderate Driving. That would need a criminal evidence of proof, realistically without independent evidence, possible but unlikely to succeed, however as tyro suggests there may be cause for civil re-dress(sorry couldn't resist that) You're within your rights to report it to the Police as a S3 Offence (there is IIRC a stated case on it), even the NIP might be enough to shake the Driver nerves.
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probably the same person who:
Dents your door in supermarket car parks by parking too close.
Tail gates.
Parks in parent and toddler spaces.
Doesn't indicate.
Cuts people up at roundabouts.
Has no insurance.
Sits in the outside lane doing 60 - 65 on motorways.
Beeps horn after 11pm.
Only thing you can do is be happy in the thought that one day he'll meet his equal and end up
in road rage accident, if he doesn't change his ways.
Question is do we all slow down when we see pedestrians & puddles and we're in a hurry?
One suggestion is to pretend to take a photo with any camera sized object you have, the do the same with something looking like a police radio - the person may think you're an off duty / out of uniform officer.
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Track him down via DVLA and wee in his shoes.
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if i see a large puddle in the road and a vehicle approaching i tend to wait then proceed when its clear
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near aldershot there is a place where big puddles happen at the side of the road, local boy races watch from afar when folk walk past and then race up and soak em
personally id shoot em
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I'm all for having fun with pedestrians but I think soaking them is good enough. Shooting them seems a bit extreme
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personally id shoot em
Soaking them is one thing, but shooting em!
;o)
:edit: beaten to it by milliseconds
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i would gladly be the victim of a drive by splashing rather than a drive by shooting, specially if you live in the st annes area of nottingham
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It is an offence. The problem these days whether the police these days take incidents like this and the thousands of other traffic offences seriously enough to follow them up.
When I was a cub reporter I used to cover the magistrates' court; the type of motoring offences that used to come up included reversing a vehicle an unreasonable distance, parking on zig-zag lines, one or more lights unlit at night and many others.
In at least one case I can recall an elderly lady who had hit a vehicle in front ever so gently was done for careless driving, fined £15 (lot of money then) and her licence endorsed; one of the local burglars was fined £5 for a break-in...:-)
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motoring offences that used to come up included reversing a vehicle an unreasonable distance
I'd not heard of that one before. Please explain. I'm fascinated.
>>an elderly lady who had hit a vehicle in front ever so gently was done for careless driving fined £15 (lot of money then) and her licence endorsed;
>>one of the local burglars was fined £5 for a break-in.
So things have not changed much :-(
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>>I'd not heard of that one before. Please explain. I'm fascinated.>>
Apparently it's a verbal warning offence now:
www.karacare.co.uk/law.html
tinyurl.com/2c7c5o (see CU13 and, interestingly, speed enforcements thresholds just above by Cornish police; would seemingly apply to all forces).
Car or van drivers used to be hauled before the magistrates if they reversed for further than was considered a "reasonable" distance (presumably it was on the grounds of safety).
Remember that in those days there were actually (lots of) police officers on the beat and many, many more police vehicles than there are today; no doubt motoring offences brought in a lot of useful revenue, just as today.
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Find out details from the DVLA (tell them you want to pursue a court action against the driver). Contact the driver and request damages. If he refuses, consider issuing a county court claim using the 'small claims track'. See:
www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/infoabout/claims/quest...m
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>>If he refuses, consider issuing a county court claim using the 'small claims track'.
What is OP's actual loss? Probably a scoop of soap poweder, tops.
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walking along the road in the rain with a mate a few years ago and got splashed big time. There was a T junction not far ahead so mate runs after the car and before you know it there's a stand up fight in the middle of the road. Never soak a quiet country boy from Somerset if you can help it....
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There is a definite offence committed when splashing pedestrians, that of Driving Without Reasonable Consideration. The link below to CPS specifically mentions "driving through a puddle causing pedestrians to be splashed" under this heading.
tinyurl.com/2tqlsk
Whether a busy police force would wish to take the time to question someone about this is a different matter. I would suggest that they would only proceed if a police officer witnessed the incident.
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A farmer friend, between a huge puddle and a ditch with a steep bank behind it, saw a Land Rover approaching, saw it accelerating, recognised a fellow local farmer at the wheel, identified the huge evil grin on his face... there was no escape. Muddy too.
All just good fun though.
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you could always do the burning paper bag with poo in trick but instead place a stinger in the large puddle and then having the enormous satisfaction of knowing the splasher will need 2 new tyres
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Getting splashed by a passing car
The standard fine for this offence seems to be £150 plus points on the licence.
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Driver fined over puddle splash
A motorist was fined £150 and given three penalty points - for driving through a puddle and soaking a workman.
Jason Evans, 34, from Yeovil, splashed the man's jeans as he drove through 2ins-deep flood water near Charlton Mackrell in Somerset.
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Convicted Driver
Penalty points for splashing police
Thu, 19 Jan 2006
A driver has been given a £150 fine and had five penalty points added to his licence after 'inadvertently' drenching a police officer when he drove his truck through a puddle.
Chris Pearson, 25, was driving his 20-tonne truck down a country lane near Carlisle last October. Although only driving at 30mph, Mr Pearson failed to slow down on approaching a two foot deep puddle of water, soaking a police officer who was helping stranded traffic in the road.
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If there is a big puddle in the road (how do you know how deep it is BTW?) it is either an act of GOD = heavy rain or the local council are not spending the loads of money they get for road maintanance on sorting out bad drainage or blockages.
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I parked my car on the side of the road once, just as I came to a halt the gutter dropped an inch and my wheel fell into it causing a baby in a pushchair to get splashed by a relativly big wave.
I couldn't apologise enough.
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Aim low, expect nothing & dont be disappointed
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I suppose it's one thing for a farmer in work clothes and quite another for a pretty lady on her way to a cocktail party in a super little dress.
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When it was raining and I was a pedestrian (in my younger days!) I wore oilskin leggings, cape and sou'wester. I never got soaked by passing cars. People these days just don't know how to dress properly in inclement conditions.
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>>I wore oilskin leggings, cape and sou'wester
I see thee cap'n Pugwash, and claim my free fish-fingers.
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I was wondering if you had a photo escargot actually. Oilskin leggings, egad!
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...... Oilskin leggings egad!
I assume you're a comparitive youngster if you have never seen or worn oilskin leggings. I'm talking 1950s when people dressed according to the weather, and bicycles (the main form of personally-owned mechanised transport) had mudguards so you could ride them in the rain without getting covered in ..... er ...... mud.
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I suppose it's one thing for a farmer in work clothes and quite another for a pretty lady on her way to a cocktail party in a super little dress.
Or a person of either gender on their way to work in an office. How many office-workers carry a towel and a change of clothes?
Original Typo corrected and corrected but duplicated post deleted. - PU
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All right already! A person in clothes then!
Jeez!
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snipquote - again
In fact a lot of men these days carry a man bag , as far as im aware the contents are , lip wash , manpons (google it) hair toner, oh and face straightening gel...me i take a tesco bag with my snap in
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Track him down and give his exhaust a quick squirt of expanding foam (get it from B&Q). Leave it to set for 20 minutes then watch the fun!
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If roads & drains were built and maintained properly, this thread would be redundant...
Regards,
John R @ Home
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If roads & drains were built and maintained properly this thread would be redundant...
Drains? In my neck of the woods we have dykes running parallel to the roads but that is all.
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Agreed, the condition of roads affords the opportunity to soak; around here buses are the best/worst at soaking people.
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