Death Wish 2014 - Traffic on the A303

Not only were cars slowing to take happy snaps near Stonehenge over the weekend, causing many of the tail-backs in both directions, some motorists were taking advantage of the wide verges, pedestrian pavements and lack of barriers to park-up at Stonehenge Bottom.

Whilst this driver photographed by Shrewton's Watch Bustard is breaking the law,

it seems that these dear folk below, photographed by Wiltshire Police over the weekend, aren't. Our grateful thanks to Inspector Christian Lange, Sector Commander for Amesbury and Tidworth, for permitting us to use this picture:

The fact that these car and van drivers aren't breaking the law is all down to the niceties of the Road Traffic Act it seems.  However, had a wheel or two remained on the white line demarking a clearway, that would have been a different story.

Apart from the fact that each of these drivers must have sloweed the traffic down when they pulled off the A303, over the kerb, to park and would do the same when starting off again, some of these half-wits (am I being overly generous here?) are clearly going to have to reverse back out into the traffic on a Bank Holiday.  A triumph of luck over judgement if you ask me.

There were also a slack handful of pedestrians wandering along the A303.  All perfectly legal of course, but perhaps not particularly well-advised.

Meanwhile, down in Winterbourne Stoke, to the horror of a local resident, the homebound public were also demonstrating their knowledge of the Highway Code.  Nothing like stopping on a crossing to queue for fuel, forcing other cars to either stay where they are, or overtake on a crossing in frustration.

As usual, we don't do too well getting registration plates.

But on this occasion we might have caught out the black Ford - WP13  UVN perhaps?

We'll have to see if we can get hold of some better cameras or use faster shutter speeds!

If you pass Stonehenge and notice anything dangerous or potentially dangerous going on - like the things shown in the shots above.  Pleas call the Police on 101 and let them know!