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Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories
Running this one up the flagpole to see who salutes...
I just don't remember this being a thing until recently, now it seems a daily occurrence.
Could it be that there are drivers not up to the job, too many cars; should houses be made to ride in single file, shops put on high viz, why are we putting newer buildings in danger like this, it's irresponsible.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18649201.car-crash-wall-iceland-s...
'A Dorset Police spokesperson said: "Dorset Police was called at 12.48pm on Thursday, August 13, to a report of a collision involving a car and a wall outside Iceland on Poole Road in Bournemouth.
"It is reported that the vehicle was also in collision with a pedestrian, but they did not require medical treatment." '
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I see your cars flipped over and raise you a car transporter on its side. Maybe it was the cars that it was carrying that caused it to fall over?
Car transporter falls into ditch alongside M4 during crash near Bristol
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-transporter-falls-di...
How the hell did the driver manage that?
And: how the hell can the Hampshire Chronicle do two days of live blog coverage on the incident without once mentioning the driver??
Still not a mention of a driver. Imagine if I had managed to sever the hospital's power with my bike.
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23948884.power-fully-restored-...
Car smashes into Worcester tanning shop through front window (video)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hereford-worcester-66937625
Bolton: Woman arrested after car crashes into shop front
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/23689116.bolton-woman-arrested-car-...
Car is rescued from ditch of Bournemouth hotel car park
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23826209.firefighters-called-resc...
Mercedes crashes into Bournemouth front garden
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23825816.mercedes-crashes-bournem...
"The wheels on the bus..."
https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/parents-horrified-after-two-wheels-f...
and there's me thinking it's the fumes that are the problem with these decrepit school buses.
Van hits second most bashed bridge in UK, shame their paywall hides the video https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23836730.van-hits-coddenham-road-bridge-need...
Row with girlfriend ends with drink-driver smashing BMW into tree
Now Marc Page has been handed a lengthy driving ban
Page, of North Street, Leek, pleaded guilty to drink-driving. The court heard he had a previous drink-driving conviction from 2020.
Alan Dawson, mitigating, said Page was at his girlfriend's and started drinking at tea-time. But she received a call from Page's ex. That led to Page deciding to leave. Mr Dawson said: "Unfortunately he decided to take his car. He simply wanted to get away as soon as possible. On the way home he made contact with something in the road and as a result he lost control and hit a tree."
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/row-girlfriend-...
Watch: Cars crash off Luton roundabout into front garden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66329600
Cars crash into Aylesbury garden off 'scary' unlit HS2 bypass
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66089314
Autonomous Audi crashes into Bristol student accomodation https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-wall-student-accommodation-8818226
Grimsby level crossing shut after car crashes into barrier
Another self-driving car trying to disable other forms of transport!
https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/grimsby-level-cross...
Driver "caught out" by heavy rain when their Kia aquaplanes and crashes on a straight stretch of the A483 near Oswestry. A bit odd when the Met Office has been talking it up for days...
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/environment/2023/10/13/car-aquaplane...
At 10.50 pm on 29 September a driver smashed a BT pole and the same wall in Chirbury where another driver died in a one-vehicle crash 2 years ago. It's a straight road approaching a give way in the village. How did they manage it?
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/south-shropshire/2023/09/...
Several drink-driving convictions and driving bans in the local headlines, including Desmond Richards, who didn't have enough puff for a breathalyser test [article] and a Corsa driver who crashed into a telegraph pole near Hodnet after drinking 10 pints of beer. [article]
Two badly hurt in Tyburn Road crash as car smashes into tree
Residents were later allowed back into their homes* by police. An elderly resident, waiting to be led back to her home by a police officer, said serious crashes were all-too-regular int he area. She said: "It happens all the time. There was one last week at night. I've even had one into my house."
* they were evacuated? The article doesn't explain.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/drivers-urged-avoid-...
Driver ‘denies speeding’ despite destroying car in roundabout wall crash
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/driver-denies-speeding-roundabout-wall-c...
Southampton Winchester Road: Woman 'trapped inside' car after crash
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23859426.southampton-winchester-road-wo...
Cannabis-filled van crashes into Chingford house with man inside
An occupant in his early 60s was treated for shoc
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/cannabis-filled-van-crashes-c...
I know that we all know this is the most ridiculous thread in the world... and that it's been going for a while now.. but is the reporting getting 'worse'?
Shouldn't it be getting 'better' since the 2021 https://www.rc-rg.com/guidelines changes?
Does anyone have a short, strong stock comment/reply we can use to perhaps suggest that reporting cars crashing into things isn't perhaps following the guidlines?
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Pictures show dramatic aftermath after car smashes into garage on major road
Emergency services were called after a car smashed into the building in the early hours of this morning
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/pic...
Lower Earley: Silver car crashes into church building
pcture - is nothing sacred??
https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/23860335.lower-earley-silver-car...
Car crashes into front of Stanford-Le-Hope restaurant
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67015976
Two taken to hospital after car crashes into Bradfield pub
medical episode, so that's all right then
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-66808438
Car crashes into Coatbridge card factory shop leaving front window destroyed
Police raced to Main Street on Thursday afternoon and a 44-year-old man has since been reported in connection with road traffic offences. Thankfully, there were no reports of injuries
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/car-crashes-coatbridge-card-factory-2...
Man arrested after two women in their 70s seriously injured by car 'reversing into pub entrance' in West Bromwich
"The driver had left the scene but less than an hour later a man, aged 56, was arrested at a nearby address on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/sandwell/west-bromwich/20...
Car crashes into landmark Handsworth pub
No reported injuries as small car crashed into Grove pub
A car crashed into a well-known pub in Handsworth. The vehicle collided with one side of the Grove pub, as it careered off the Grove Lane roundabout around 6am on Sunday (October 8).
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/car-crashes-landmark...
Crash shuts Exeter Road in Bournemouth town centre
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23867705.crash-shuts-exeter-road-...
Driver 'very sorry' for ploughing into Indian restaurant in Totton
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23872051.driver-very-sorry-ploughing-in...
Not a newsstory - my own photo from my ride yesterday. Near Alresford in Hampshire.
Driver taken to hospital after car smashes into lamppost on the A21 in Lamberhurst near Tunbridge Wells
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tunbridge-wells/news/police-issues-warning-...
Ford Focus crashes into house in Upper Street in Leeds near Maidstone
Mr Bristow said: “He was shouting and cursing. He seemed to think the accident was everybody’s fault but his own.
“Something needs to be done to improve that build-out.
“There have been several near misses there with cars trying to race through. Perhaps a camera?
The driver left the scene prior to the arrival of officers, who completed a thorough search of the area. No injuries were reported and inquiries to locate the driver and establish the circumstances are under way. ”
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/crash-driver-flees-after-hit...
Car doesn't crash into Building:
https://www.norfolklive.co.uk/news/norfolk-news/truck-carrying-boat-mana...
Can't shift a fridge:
New Forest District Council asks man, 81, to lift 60kg fridge
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23882191.new-forest-district-council-as...
(absurd non-story)
Had to be a wankpanzer
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/live-car-hits-bus-queue-31307428
Man taken to hospital and arrested after Nissan Qashqai crashes into building on A2 High Street, Newington
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sittingbourne/news/driver-arrested-after-ca...
Car crashes into window of popular Cornwall café
A 'loud bang' shook the home of a nearby resident who was shocked to see a car stuck in the front window of Lilys of Truro Café
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/car-crashes-window-popul...
Chippenham woman was so drunk she crashed car into McDonald’s
The heavily intoxicated 54-year-old crashed her Fiat 500 into a bin and a curb [sic] when she arrived at about 10pm on Tuesday (24 October) – and narrowly avoided hitting a lamppost.
After ordering her meal at the Bath Road drive-through, she was told to park in the waiting bay. As she attempted to do so, she struck the building and a raised seating area.
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/chippenham-woman-drunk-car-mcdonalds/
Air ambulance tasked as ‘inexperienced’ driver crashes car into house
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/air-ambulance-inexperienced-car-house/
Just been reading about the latest Just Stop Oil protest having a premium police response - "Posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, the Met said its officers had arrived within four minutes of receiving a report of the protest and began making arrests. The force said it arrested 61 people, all of whom were still in custody on Monday afternoon."
https://theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/30/met-arrest-more-than-60-climate-activists-just-stop-oil-protest-first-use-powers-public-order-act
I was intrigued as why section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023, which bans any act “which interferes with the use or operation of any key national infrastructure in England and Wales” isn't used to immediately arrest drivers who crash and block roads etc.
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