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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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- Bungle_52 6 min 49 sec ago
Well here is my example https://road.cc/content/news/near-miss-day-786-293709
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- HLaB 2 hours 13 min ago
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update : pictures https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/clear-up-underway-afte...
Here's the Reach version - I think of some poor nightshift reporter in some regional newsroom trying to find some happening in the south-west to write about, he even starts a live blog which rapidly peters-out.
Updates - Car crashes into Co-op shop in Nailsea
Hannah More Road is closed in the North Somerset town
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/live-nailsea-crash-sho...
It's about time that lollipop people were made to wear bright colours to avoid this kind of thing
Obviously needs more bollards.
"he warned expectations had to be tempered by the reality that the High Street was a trunk road and traffic must be kept flowing."
I see they have pavement seating outside- you'd have to be pretty mental to sit out there while there are BMW and Audi drivers about!
The irony is that they are seeking to find the owner/driver of the vehicle, but the tweet referenced in the article blanks out the number plate.
If only there were a system for the public to recognise the car, then they could help.
Slightly more worrying is the Instagram picture of him apparently demonstrating how he solved his problem of a full bladder. Nearly as bad as his haircut, which probably cost a fortune, but went out of fashion about the same time as home cooking and the demise of the mixing bowl (as I know to my cost).
"A cordon was put in place and crews worked towards making the vehicles safe using ratchet straps and a winch."
That's right, tie the buggers down so they can't just go flipping around.
"She has written to Hampshire County Council that the road is “dangerous” but says she was told that unless these is a fatality nothing would be done."
I don't wish to absolve the drivers, but I'm still astounded that the official policy is "do nothing until someone dies".
Here's Before. After looks like it could go to Tate Modern.
She came out of nowhere, shot across the road and I didn't see her!
you know those builders, I haven't seen them in ages the 'phone just rings and rings gosh is it two years doesn't time fly yes I'll try them again tomorrow
"Traffic lights are currently in place between Park Street and Atherton Crescent and will remain until it is safe to open both carriageways.
"It will take some time for a building's owner to complete the repairs to make it safe, so the traffic lights are expected to be in place for between six and nine months.
My impression from the Manchester Evening News is that Salford is best avoided in general.
I suppose I shouldn't die of fright when I read that some of the BTL commenters are siding with the driver and blaiming the lollipop person.
I have to admit, I looked at that picture and my first thought was, "Well, that wasn't being driven under 20mph...".
What's the point of worshipping the all-devouring motor car unless you sacrifice some blood to it too?
Up until the late '60s, the route through Sopley was the main A338; it's now a B road.
Not sure why drivers are finding this so difficult - it's a 30 mph road through the village - perhaps 20 mph would be easier for them?
Was about to say "should not be in the road when cars are there" but hirsute found exactly that comment from someone
Entrenched motoring culture indeed.
that car was speeding though right ? because that looked very fast (with headlights on too it seems) for that kind of road.
I wonder how the insurance worked it out, or what the police did with the driver.
Follow up
Hampsire County Council may help Sopley resident Polly Coleman over vehicles hitting her house
We will be asking the police for details and, together with a study of the injury accident record for this area, we will consider if any interventions could be put in place that would improve road safety, taking into consideration the road environment, traffic volumes and other relevant factors.
“Any decisions to implement further measures will be based on evidence demonstrating that installing such measures will result in improvements.”
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/council-may-help-woman-over-ca...
the driver has come southwards along the High Street and looks to have been doing quite a speed, huh? No doubt rushing a fridge to a dying grandmother, or bringing back 2 tonnes of groceries for the local orphanage.
https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/hungerford-high...
Yes - it's a bit tricky with the camera angle but I certainly get the impression that the car was going far too fast, and had it been travelling within the speed limit (30mph as far as I can tell) I think the collision would have been avoided or at least far less serious.
The comments made by local residents/politicians would also appear to suggest they see the main problem as speeding along that road.
Don't know how the police/insurance would have worked it out - I think the speed was a major contributory factor, but even so, the other driver pulled out when it was not safe to do so, and they should have judged the speed of the oncoming vehicle and waited, rather than assuming the car was travelling at a sensible/lawful speed.
Some of the comments
"As a pedestrian your not soposed to enter the zebra crosing until both sides have stopped and can see you crossing the lollipop lady is causing criminal damage. The role is obsolete, its the councils job to put a crossing with lights their"
Doesn't even understand the basic HC.
"you MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing"
I make that 45-50mph down Hungerford High Street. 30 limit.
Response of Highways Authority:
Town councillor Jerry Keates said lorries used the High Street as a "rat run" between other towns and said residents were "eternally frustrated" by a lack of action by the highways authority, West Berkshire Council.
The meeting was attended by the district council's service director for the environment Jon Winstanley, who thanked Mrs Armstrong for the footage.
But he warned expectations had to be tempered by the reality that the High Street was a trunk road and traffic must be kept flowing.
Manchester is one of the few places in the country that uses green right turn filters as the first phase after red, then followed by full green, so there is no indication to the right turning traffic when oncoming traffic is going to start. (Combine blindly following car in front turning right with enthusiastic getaway on green). Presumably here they've changed the sequencing to the normal UK style of full green followed by a period of filter with oncoming traffic held by a red.
It was like that in the 70s, and I was amazed it was like that still when I returned about 30 years later.
What do you reckon the insurance premium is for a newly qualified seventeen year old driving a brand new Audi...?
So, if you don't step onto the crossing until both sides are clear and drivers won't stop unless there's someone starting to cross, does that mean that pedestrians are just stuck there forever?
This seems to be my theme ATM but I think almost every infra / legal story here could be ended with the following and have the majority of the population nodding (possibly sadly):
Think of a number, the list price, and double it?
"As a pedestrian your not soposed to enter the zebra crosing until both sides have stopped and can see you crossing the lollipop lady is causing criminal damage. The role is obsolete, its the councils job to put a crossing with lights their"
Is this a parody of a dimwit completing the bad-spelling bingo, or a real dimwit...?
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