{"id":12536,"date":"2013-05-11T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=12536"},"modified":"2013-05-11T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T18:25:08","slug":"level-crossings-to-be-made-safer-because-of-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=12536","title":{"rendered":"Level Crossings To Be Made Safer (Because Of Idiots)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing the <a title=\"CCTV of level crossing near miss in Carmarthenshire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-22490098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC website and found this clip of a near-miss<\/a> on a level crossing in Llangadog, Carmarthenshire. The clip shows the incident from <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/172;float: left; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline;\" title=\"Near Miss - a still from the CCTV clip\" alt=\"Near Miss - a still from the CCTV clip\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cctv_near_miss.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"172\" align=\"left\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>the CCTV cameras both sides of the crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get one thing straight: there is no way that the prat in that car should still have a driving licence, or ever be allowed to hold one again. And he or she should probably be in care for their own benefit, as well as everyone else\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, our society doesn\u2019t use logic like that, and the solution &#8211; obviously &#8211; is that \u201clevel crossings \u201cneed to be made safer\u201d. That\u2019s because flashing lights, and all the signs and road markings, and the big metal rail-like things in the road, coupled with the fact that the prat in question (who appeared to be going a little on the quick side as he passed through) and probably lives in the area, are clearly not enough.<\/p>\n<p>The story doesn\u2019t mention if he was prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that even when crossings have barriers there are morons out there who either don\u2019t see them or don\u2019t care. ITN covered <a title=\"near-misses at level crossings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=376_1364039190&amp;comments=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the same topic a couple of months ago<\/a>, and their clips unbelievably show women with pushchairs running past red lights and descending barriers! Me and one of my pupils even saw one a couple of months ago when a woman in Sneinton wove her car past stopped traffic and around descending barriers &#8211; I\u2019m sure the violation camera got her, and I hope she enjoys her lessons as she works towards passing her test again after however long she was banned for (though I must say, she is probably still driving &#8211; her sort always does).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing the BBC website and found this clip of a near-miss on a level crossing in Llangadog, Carmarthenshire. The clip shows the incident from the CCTV cameras both sides of the crossing. Let\u2019s get one thing straight: there is no way that the prat in that car should still have a driving licence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}