One of the garish new signs in Pecica, Romania, that warns drivers of drunk pedestrians crawling the streets (Europics.at)

TOWN hall chiefs in Eastern Europe have given up on trying to stop drink drivers – and are now warning them about drunk pedestrians instead.

Road safety bosses in Romania – where accidents involving alcohol are at record levels – have put up traffic signs warning motorists of drunks wandering the streets.

Mayor Petru Antal ordered the signs – saying ‘Attention – Drunks’.

They come complete with an image of a reveller on his knees with a bottle and have been put up in Pecica, where officials have virtually given up on boozy locals ever following the law.

“We are a border town and have lots of cars thundering through here all the time,” Mayor Antal told the Romanian Times. 

“But we also have a very vibrant nightlife and the two don’t mix.

“We have to target the drivers because by the time they get to this state the pedestrians are beyond caring.”

The bike is made of a beer crate strapped to a powerful engine, with what looks like a bomb at the back (Europics.at)

A BARMY motorist has been banned by police after converting a beer crate into a mini quad bike.

The micro machine was given its last orders after Wolfi Maier, 24, tried to outrun cops on the booze machine in Dautphetal, Germany.

The biker said he had only just finished the vehicle and claimed it was on the way to a test drive at a private racing track.

“It looked good but it was not licensed to travel on the road – so we confiscated it,” one officer said.

“The vehicle featured a tuned-up engine that normally only goes about 15mph but this was much quicker.”

He added: “It would certainly make drink driving more risky.”

Police told the Austrian Times the vehicle could yet be returned if the owner promised not to use it on the public roads again.

The pair were late for a fancy dress party when they were caught speeding (europics.at)

POLICE stopped a couple of jokers when they zoomed through a speed trap in full clown costumes.

Driver Martina Oberle, 31, had the smile wiped off her face after she was fined £110 for speeding in Moerschwil, Switzerland.

Officers initially thought Martina and pal Bettina Blauch, 26, who were wearing blonde wigs and with full clown make up, had dressed up for a prank.

But they were actually late for a fancy dress party when they were caught doing 60mph in a 45mph zone.

The binmen just dumped all the trash in the street at the end of their shift (Pic: Europics.at)

MEET the most rubbish binmen in the world.

This previously clean and well kept road became a stinking tip overnight when trash collectors simply dumped their loads in the street when their shift ended.

Residents in Zhengzhou, central China, woke up to find tons of stinking rubbish all over the roadside causing chaos for morning commuters.

More than 50 refuse collectors and 28 trucks spent a whole day clearing away the trash before the street was back to normal again.

One official said: “The binmen have a work dispute and had been delayed on their round by fog.”

He told the Austrian Times: “So the minute their shift ended they emptied the trucks where they were and went home.”

The car park spaces are pink, which is a pretty colour women can see Europics.at

PADDED car parks are being introduced at shopping centres across China in a desperate bid to cope with the menace of women drivers.

Dozens of centres  in the north of the country now feature sections with wider spaces and colour coded walls to make them easier for women to spot.

The purple and pink colour scheme is also supposed to ‘ease the anxiety’ women feel when trying to reverse into a parking space.

And even the pillars are padded with foam to soften the impact of shunts.

Wang Zheng, boss of one of the shopping centres in Hebei, said: ”There is a scientific basis for all this.

“Women have a poorer sense of distance when they are locked inside a small space.

“That is why female drivers often bump the front and back of their cars.

“There is also a 15 per cent greater chance that a woman will drive her car door into another car when she opens it.”

He told the Austrian Times: “Each parking space is three metres wide, much larger than normal parking spaces and there is more CCTV to help women feel safer.”

The Road to Hell: If you are driving home for Christmas, best avoid this one... Pic: Europics.at

DRIVING Home for Christmas is a popular song with truckers at this time of year. 

But Road to Hell, another Chris Rea hit, would have been a bit more apt for unlucky motorists on this stretch of highway.

This incredible picture shows what happened when rain fell on a full truck of dangerous chemicals - causing the road itself to burst into flames.

One driver who saw the chaos unfold in Hangzhiou, eastern China, said: “There were flames everywhere. It was like a mini-apocalpyse.”

The 'accelerate while braking' maneouvre has not been widely used by motorists before Pic: Europics.at

 A WOMAN driver has caused more than £9,000 worth of damage and destroyed dozens of shopping trolleys after pressing the accelerator pedal instead of the brake.

Angela Wohlmeyer was trying to slow down her BMW outside a supermarket in Muenster, Germany.

But as our picture shows, the 27-year-old found it all far too confusing and sped up instead – leading to this mountain of wreckage.

“I don’t know what happened,” she told the Austrian Times.

“I just seemed to mix up the pedals.”

She now faces a battle with her insurance company to get them to pay for the damage.

An idiot driver turns around as traffic approaches at 50mph Pic: europics.at

SAT NAVS are going to kill people because idiot drivers follow their instructions ‘blindly’, police chiefs have warned.  

Dozens of motorists have been caught on CCTV turning around their vehicles in high-speed tunnels  despite the threat of oncoming traffic –  ”because their sat navs told them to”

And now furious Swiss cops have spoken out about the perils of the satellite navigation systems.

They have published traffic images from the notorious Gotthard tunnel to illustrate how crazed drivers make u-turns as traffic approaches at more than 50 mph.

Damian Meier, head of traffic police in the Swiss province of Uri, said: “This is not an isolated case. More and more drivers are asked by their sat navs to take a u-turn in the Gotthard tunnel.”

He added: “The majority of drivers taking a u-turn in the tunnel are from abroad.”

Meier told the Austrian Times the sat navs often ‘revise’ the route after entering the underpass and advise drivers to turn around and take a local bypass instead.