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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 13:36:28 GMT
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Post by Alanović on Jan 16, 2017 13:51:54 GMT
I've often wondered at how few cars end up in the drink there, given the demographic of the area. Don't think we've got any real local residents on here, have we?  |
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Post by commerdriver on Jan 16, 2017 14:15:23 GMT
I've often wondered at how few cars end up in the drink there, given the demographic of the area. Don't think we've got any real local residents on here, have we? Not Henley, but there are a couple of us in Marlow, just down the road / river. Doesn't happen in Marlow because we don't have car parking right at the edge of the river because the river tends to come up onto the land occasionally. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 15:22:25 GMT
I've fallen in the river right there. I always did love the regatta, and soon learned not to step backwards when a) near a river and b) drunk.
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Post by WDB on Jan 16, 2017 16:25:20 GMT
Can't work out the geometry of what went wrong, but I pass that way every night on my way home so I'll have a look next time.
Meanwhile, now that pensioner (presumably) won't be driving again, how would that car suit Esp's dad?
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Post by Humph on Jan 16, 2017 16:46:29 GMT
Lucky lady. Looks like it would have been way more difficult if not fatal, if the car had slipped down between the quay and the pontoon.
My wife had one of those A classes. She hated it. Sold it after 6 unhappy months with it.
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Post by Hofmeister on Jan 16, 2017 16:49:17 GMT
You will note that the door mirrors are still in tact. |
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Post by bromptonaut on Jan 16, 2017 16:53:09 GMT
You will note that the door mirrors are still in tact. Freudian slip? |
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Post by WDB on Jan 20, 2017 8:12:00 GMT
Couldn't work out how this happened until I looked closely at Streetview. goo.gl/maps/gDF78TvpUdJ2There are steel bollards set into the tarmac all the way along the edge, but it looks as if she found a car-wide gap just where one had been removed. Look left from the brick hut, past the gate with its semicircular railings, left a little more and that's the spot. Nothing in the the report but I presume an automatic was involved somehow. Modern six-speed manuals like mine have reverse next to first, and it's easier than it ought to be to select the wrong one, but the couple of times I've picked R instead of 1 (never the other way round) there was an immediate clue as the clutch came up and I could put it straight back down before the car did any more than momentarily alarm the driver behind. Cars that do it for you don't have that safety margin. Local paper report and more pictures here: www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=42948. |
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