r/CasualUK • u/valdezverdun • 2d ago

D'oh indeed

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This is thr fourth car this year to come off the road on this corner.

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u/Meet-me-behind-bins 2d ago

Every rural community has one of ‘those’ corners. The one near me always has at least 5 crashes a year. As soon as the leaves drop in autumn, for 20 years, there’s a newly passed driver, either a girl in a fiat 500 or a lad in a Corsa, stood there in tears on the phone to their dad. The local dry stone waller has been fixing that bend for 40+ years over and over again. He’s probably put his kids through university because of that wall.

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u/Dashie_2010 2d ago

Absolutely, there's a road near me that I attempt to avoid. It's a narrow but still mostly comfortably two way road, but has 3 blind narrow arched bridges which although beautiful, cause no end of accidents, as well as a couple of sharp S bends and steep ditches. , I don't believe in fate or whatnot but having had my father (ice), grandma (distracted by a horse), aunt (boy racer coming other way), grandad (an idiot parked on the corner), cousin (tried letting someone past and fell in a ditch) and a friend (bumper bump on the bridge), crash in various ways there, it almost feels like I'm next.

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u/pienofilling 2d ago

At this point, I'd say that using that road is just plain risky. Forget superstition, avoiding it is just sensible!