Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

David9694 wrote:

LTN helps catch fleeing criminals 

"They should get rid of LTNs"

"But that one caught a criminal"

"Ok, not that one, that's one of the good ones. I'm not LTNist, you know, some of my best friends are LTNs."

ktache wrote:

Is it a particularly twisty turny tunnel, lots of junctions and bad sight lines...?

Not at all. I think it is Pen-y-Clip [street view], the second westbound tunnel, opened in the early 1990s. There was a 50 mph limit in both tunnels for a while but I think this was lifted some time ago.

Driver breathalysed on the M60 was more than twice the limit after crashing into a barrier last weekend.

https://twitter.com/NWmwaypolice/status/1690223327175184384

As regards this 'No VED from 1st August': DVLA has a problem at the moment. I have come across numerous similar vehicles - too much even for MOT/ VED/ insurance evaders paradise Lancashire. So DVLA is not able to cope with posting accurate data on recently paid up VED

Simon E wrote:

A Zonda 760LH supercar was wrecked in an A55 tunnel on Tuesday by an idiot with a micro-penis and far too much money. Apparently exotic Italian car manufacturer Pagani built it as a one-off for Lewis Hamilton. Toys like that don't belong on the roads (and neither does the driver).

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/supercar-once-owned-f1...

Meanwhile in Aberdaron, a Landy wankpanzer gets stuck (and wrecked) on the beach.

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/badly-damaged-car-reco...

I was driving out towards Wellesbourne one Sunday morning and a Lambourgini driver had managed to stick his supercar into a hedge on a 50mph road. Judging by where it ended up, I doubt it was excessive speed, just losing grip on what might have been a damp road. People seem to be under the impression that light cars with wide tyres have amazing grip at low speeds. A mate drove his partner's Porsche and managed to lose control on an M42 slip road at Tamworth - a slight curve and of course, locally a Porsche driver killed a cyclist spinning off a road at about 60mph in a 40.

As you say, performance cars should not be road legal in the UK. Indeed, I'd make a case for all cars to be chipped to constrain performance on road to 0-60 in 10 seconds or even less and maximum of 70mph. Give me one good reason why a car owned by a member of the public should be allowed to exceed the national speed limit?

"I need to be able to go faster than the speed limit in case need to avoid an accident. You can trust me, I am a good driver who hasn't been asked to prove that I can still cut it 38 years since I took my test.... oh, and I drive a BMW so I am a good driver."

That's what I would say if I was a berk.

Oh and you think cars can get from 0-60 quickly currently... the new EV I've just looked at (a Smart #1) can do that in 3.5 second...! For a reasonably cheap car (when compared with supercars of course: £40 k is a little bit more than pocket change for most) that stupidly fast.