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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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Crash in Poole pub car park caught on CCTV
The pub car park - I've long seen these a contradiction in terms. I would not want to have sold the alcohol to someone that led to someone else getting hurt. Glad the wall intervened this time.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23032933.crash-poole-pub-car-park...
Delays after car crashes into town centre bollards
As always #NoDriverInvolved
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/traffic/delays-after-car-crashes-into-bolla...
Householders worried about collisions in Malmesbury on Gloucester Road
A whole article about the problems with buildings being hit and trying to stop it happening but not a single mention of the only thing that can stop it happening; the drivers!
https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/23036278.multiple-collisions-ma...
Sheffield Children’s Hospital crash: Car leaves road and crashes into hospital
First they go for our houses, now self driving cars are going for our hospitals!
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thestar.co.uk/news/sheffield-children...
Another of those feral cars:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/avon-ring-road-crash-ped...
Youth of today, I guess.
Driver killed and four hurt in crash
A man has died in a serious crash in Rowley Regis
Four others were hurt when the Mercedes crashed into a wall
Police are appealing for any witnesses to come forward
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cek2np79m9ko
TBF, they do admit there was a driver eventually when explaining who was the fatality.
CAR CRASHES INTO TREES IN FRESHWATER
This is getting worse; not only are self-driving cars crashing, they're now trapping innocent occupants inside!
https://www.iwradio.co.uk/news/isle-of-wight-news/car-crashes-into-trees...
Car crashes into front of shop on main Nottingham road
#NoDriverInvolved
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/car-crashes-front-sh...
"and that's why e-scooters should be banned", says no-one (so far) in the article comments. If ever this thread of ours had a point beyond the "share the road" gallows humour, maybe it's a story like this one.
Two women lark about on an e scooter late at night, hit a wall, fall over - The End. As Jenni remarks, no fire brigade cutting them free, no builder to shore up a hole, no tow truck, ambulance or police.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/best-friends-plough-esc...
Speeding hit-and-run driver sends car crashing head-on into Edgbaston's grade II listed church
The badly damaged blue vehicle was seen mangled in the side of St George's Church after a collision with a 'speeding hit-and-run driver
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/speeding-hit-run-dri...
SKODA CRASHES INTO PARKED CAR ON RYDE’S MARLBOROUGH ROAD
It's sounds like a dangerous road
#NoDriverInvolved
https://www.islandecho.co.uk/skoda-crashes-into-parked-car-on-rydes-marl...
Not really local, but had to post this one: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/japans-oldest-toilet-damaged-as-driver-backed-up
A police spokesperson said that they have nothing to go on
Car collides with bollards on Recreation Road in Poole
#NoDriverInvolved
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23058329.car-collides-bollards-re...
The horrific moment a car slams into the back of a taxi at high speed
Sorry, not a building. The taxi wasn't wearing hi-viz or a helmet though.
#NoDriverInvolved
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/horrific-moment-car-slams-...
https://twitter.com/BethnalCleen/status/1583039514447998977
An £80,000 BMW M5 smashed through a fence and into a garden in Sutton Coldfield at 1am on Sunday morning (16 October). The man who lives in the house said that 8 vehicles have crashed into his garden since he moved there in 2009.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/fury-80k-bmw-smashes...
In June a Honda Civic with false number plates crashed into the same property.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/demand-action-tackle...
The article also states that "another car has crashed into the roundabout, smashed through bollards, a fence and into a back garden at the end of last month" (May) and that a Chevrolet Matiz that ended up in a front garden off the same road, Monmouth Drive, "the third accident at the location in eight weeks."
Not often you read of the outcome of one of these (posted in here somewhen)
https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/1583693880100167685
6 months disqualification, 8 endorsements on their licence, fined £415
Car overturns in horror smash as region hit by flash floods and torrential rain
Fortunately, no one was seriously injured in the collision - which appears to have taken place in a partially submerged road. The cause of the crash is not known.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/car-overturns-horror-smas...
Here's an unusual one: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/biker-taken-hospital-after-driving-7738046
A biker has been taken to hospital after driving into a parked car. Emergency services were called to a street in Weston-Super-Mare this afternoon at around 3.45pm.
Avon and Somerset Police said it was called to a report of a motorcycle in collision with a parked car. The rider of the 125cc motorbike is going to hospital for assessment to injuries which are not currently believed to be life-threatening or life-changing, it added.
Bit of a sad one
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-63373834
"A man who suffered serious injuries after a toucan crossing pole hit him on the head has died in hospital.
Northamptonshire Police said the pole struck the man after a car crashed into it"
You'd think given a death, there would be something about the driver.
car would crash in to building - another "welcome to our world, guys" story here.
"Our shop and the dog groomers have been left unprotected from traffic. Above our premises are flats and the situation really is a risk to everyone. A lot of kids walk along up to the High School and Tower Road Academy and there's no protection."
Businesses in Boston 'unprotected' from traffic as vehicles keep smashing into safety railings
Businesses say their premises have been left unprotected from traffic.
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/businesses-boston-unp...
Beeston homeowner heard a 'great big bang' as car crashes into his fence
He said: “I’m used to it now - not a lot of emotion at all, we've had it happen so many times and over the years you come accustomed to it, you become immune to it and just hope nobody Is injured.
“They’ve been in the wall opposite, the house opposite, the flats - all four corners. It’s careless driving and not knowing the junction properly. There’s been three this month, two finished in the middle of the road, just minor bumps.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/beeston-homeowner-he...
The A5 in North Wales was closed for 11 hours today after a lorry carrying more than 6,000 live chickens hit a wall at about 4.30 am. [Daily Post]
I know that bend, just before the Goat pub in Maerdy. It's pretty innocuous.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23083272.car-flips-ditch-off-a35/
Ditch survived.
A van mounted the central reservation on A483 dual carriageway south of Wrexham at around 8 a.m. this morning. Southbound side was closed for several hours.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/live-a483-stretch-bloc...
https://twitter.com/Kezmo_83/status/1585906972875837442/photo/1
Audi ploughs into war memorial in Greater Manchester high street
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/aud...
Drug driving - the video shows the tractor veering into the path of the car.
Clearly a dangerous bridge there. Now we're just waiting for local politicos to demand that the inefficient "train lane" is ripped out to allow more traffic.
I believe those vehicles are actually designed not to be able to maintain traction with the road surface while being driven below posted speed limits.
File under C for Car Crashes into...nothing at all, but still ends up in a field which in other circumstances would be someone's house.
I searched Cornwall Live for "car field"...
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