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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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- Velo-drone 39 min 40 sec ago
Police Scotland have given me this as a reason for not proceeding with a report before.
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Out of interest: if you are travelling north/south through Worcester, what is the councils recommendation as a cycling route, if you can't use High...
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Is that response from the Met? I do get a different response from other forces, including City of London
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If you crash into a pizza store and overturn your car would the term for that be a "carzone"?
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Don't you go messing with our accident hotspots!
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This, although a) is ultimately pointless but also very satisfying.
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It's a shame you didn't read the instructions
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The only thing those shorts are likely to reduce is your bank balance
- mdavidford 7 hours 46 min ago
To pay any attention. To bother considering one's own actions. To do anything about it.
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Maidstone homes evacuated after car crashes into block of flats
A safety cordon was put in place following the incident.
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/maidstone-homes-evacuated-after...
Momo's open again in St Helens after closure due to car crash
https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/23742851.momos-open-st-helens-closur...
https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/23509053.man-18-taken-hospital-car-c...
Police called after car crashes into traffic lights in St Helens
https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/23737979.police-called-car-crashes-t...
Horror Smethwick crash as car smashes into front of house
A car went careering into the front of a property in Victoria Park Road
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/sandwell/smethwick/2023/0...
BMW carrying Gills’ players crashes in Woodlands Road, Gillingham
“It looks like it’s caused a lot of damage. The neighbours are shocked. The guy who lived there was opening his curtains as it happened so he saw it.
“This road has a school on it. It’s lucky it’s school holiday time or people could have been hurt.”
The owner of the house where the wall was destroyed did not wish to speak at length, only saying the driver “is a nice bloke, it was an accident”.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/gills-players-in-bmw-street-cra...
Follow-up: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/new-video-shows-moment-bmw-carr...
Front garden wall trashed after driver ploughs car straight into it
Emergency services swarmed the area
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/fro...
Hastings: Sussex Police arrest two after cars crash into shop windows
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23749374.hastings-sussex-police-arrest-t...
Car crashes into bridge on Sugarbrook Lane in Stoke Pound
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23750942.car-crashes-bridge-sugarbr...
"car might have crashed into garage" We're just a few 'back to school' stories away from the end of Silly Season 2023:
Police appealing for damaged garage information on Knapp Way
A GARAGE on a residential road may have been damaged by an attempted break-in or a car hitting it.
West Mercia Police have said that sometime between Friday, August 18 and Saturday, August 19, damage was sustained to a garage on Knapp Way, Malvern.
PCSO Collette Carpenter, of the Link and Dyson safer neighbourhood policing team, said: "It's unclear if the damage has been caused due to an attempted break [in] or if someone has tried to turn around, hitting the garage in the process.
https://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/23749845.police-appealing-damaged-...
Colchester letting agents was smashed into after dramatic car chase
One neighbour said: “A friend told me all about it, and he said it was chaos – there were lights everywhere and all sorts.”
Another neighbour said they heard “a big bang”.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23751278.colchester-letting-agents-s...
Van crashes into ice cream shop off Lymington high street
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23753933.van-crashes-ice-cream-shop-off...
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/ice-cream-parlour-carries-on-a...
Three more linked stories from 2022 that I don't think we've had - maybe the first one.
Took me a little while to realise they have had to weatherproof the house with the car in situ.
From the BBC article "The pictures speak for themselves" - no they don't!
How? Why?
Also, the obligatory "you can't park that there, mate"
(...and why does the U.S. call the ground floor the 1st floor?)
Well, they're in the right place!
How is that just a traffic violation? Is the building part of the road system now and if so, they should have fined the people inside for jaywalking.
Looks like a fire risk blocking that exit - should be removed before the building is used.
When autonomous vehicles go bad
I will not post should have gone to Specsavers
I will not post should have gone to Specsavers
I will not post should have gone to Specsavers
I will not post should have gone to Specsavers
What were those adverts you mentioned...
Is it a particularly twisty turny tunnel, lots of junctions and bad sight lines...?
Bishop's Stortford : Police update - the truck driver has accepted a course of treatment and is in recovery.
The lights are on the floor, the carpet is on the ceiling and using the toilet is best avoided.....
Only debris blocking the pavement? Hmmm!
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with C
Can't top that! It'll cost hundreds and thousands...
EDIT - I hope they've put some cones out...
And in the Synchronised Range Rovers, it's 9.1 from the Swiss judge.
This is required more often than you might think.
OPTION BASE 1
It's the general police/prosecution principle of 'charge idiot drivers with the minimum possible offence'.
See also: almost every crash occassioning a cyclist death or serious injury.
LTN helps catch fleeing criminals
And its own sun that is always in your eyes
It was quite the scoop, this one.
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