A Land Rover Defender which had rolled onto its side on the outskirts of Rookley this morning (Monday) was pushed back onto 4 wheels by quick-thinking workers and members of the public. The incident took place on the outskirts of Rookley between Bagwich Lane and Roud Road and saw the Defender – on approach to the temporary lights – mount a bank and roll into the middle of the road. Delays are being experienced on the road as a result of highway repair and maintenance works. Luckily there were Island Roads operatives on hand to help right the vehicle. It is understood that the driver – a male – was able to climb out of the window.
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Been on the cider, bumpkin?
They shouldn’t have done that, if they had left it they could have closed the road for several hours.
Ban these old, unsafe junkers from the roads! Anything over 20 years old should be prohibited due to woefully poor safety compared to modern cars. Not to mention the much poorer quality of emissions coming out of old cars too.
Wasn’t the old car that drove itself up a bank and rolled was it, your the sort of person that will blame the gun not the owner, the child and not the parent, and as for your quality of emissions you should do some research on what it takes to mine the lithium and cobalt for your electric batteries, more co2 created in the manufacture of one of them than my old banger will emmit In it’s lifetime!!
I agree that EVs are environmentally horrible too. But a modern petrol engine with good cats etc is very efficient and far less polluting than these old junkers!
This is false in every way. It’s a narrative pushed by oil shills. Include all the co2 produced to create the fuels needed like you do when looking at EV’s. Then you will see the true cost of burning stuff.
And yet there are as many pointing out the problems with Electric as there are pointing out the problems with petrol, both sides funded by groups with more money than sense and no idea of the true cost of anything! Whatever the truth you can be 100% sure that we plebs will never find out.
What a lot of EV owners forget is these vehicles use electricity to recharge the battery, the amount of resources required to make an EV battery, so by being allegedly green they are anything but
Unless the ‘mindless ones’ decide on a 20mph restriction, in which case no amount of Catalytic Converters will reduce CO2 being pushed out as they need a hot exhaust to burn the gasses, and 20 aint plenty with these systems. But hey ho, it aint why the Landy had a moment.. that’s down to the driver as always.
The greenest car is the one you’ve already got, regardless of any tailpipe emissions.
Maybe you should do some research into how much cobalt is used in the refinement process to produce petrol…..
A well maintained Junker is better than new three ton Chelsea tractors.
You are wrong about CO2 production when building an EV. All the studies that report this are flawed and written by oil funded think tanks. They never include the forging cost of the engines for oil burning cars. They never include the oil discarded each time a car is serviced. Then never include the CO2 emitted in the production of the fuel needed for petrol or diesel. They also assume all the electric needed to run an EV is produced with fossil fuels. I have read them all, they are an oil con job.
I’m pretty sure the problem had less to do with the vehicle in question, and more to do with the driver failing to avoid the terrain that has been there longer than his vehicle.
Newer doesn’t mean better
Expensive saussage “roll”. Should have bought a car that’s not ‘top heavy’….
Or just stick to driving on the roads and not the banks!
Probably on his/her phone…
Or doing their make-up/hair
Same old, island roads are UNSAFE due to lax traffic
law on the island.
There was also a 2 Range Rover crash in Brading High Street
today.
Slow down F.F.S, what’s the rush.
On it’s side? That’s novel. The roof is more usual, is it not?
Typical hung over island driver, this place is infested with drunk drivers, that or drugs,take your pick!