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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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Filed as in no further action? But, but registration plates...
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23282050.bursledon-investigation-lollip...
Sopley home owner Penny Coleman lives in fear of fatal crash after cars hit her cottage
She told the A&T: “I literally spend every day worrying about when the next crash will be. It is such a horrible feeling.
“When the last one happened I was actually looking out of my kitchen window when I saw this car coming straight at the house.
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/i-live-in-fear-driver-will-die...
Another untamed car:
Car flips over and crashes into parked vehicles in quiet Bedminster street
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-flips-over-crashes-p...
'An incredible crash followed by a wave of crashes' - boss recalls moment car ploughs into shop
The vehicle crashed through a glass window and came to a halt at the counter
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/an-incredible-crash...
Not a building exactly but something made out of bricks becomes a casualty of "more road!":
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-64499394
In this case bonus points because it was next to what looks like a shared use path - and a sufficiently wide road - in late 2022.
But maybe not wide enough for parking? Or a bus lane? I don't know the reason but looks like the A53 may have got bigger so now the bottlenecks are elsewhere... (was that on here a while back)?
The slow death of public transport - spreading into the cities now from is rural locales. Thanks, cars.
My first thought was "Did she drive the lamppost or the wall?" seeing this on the ticker elsewhere.
It does represent a new low water mark of headline.
#nocarordriverinvolved
Also no mention of a driver so perhaps it was autonomous?
Wow! That's some work. A much more superficial (but maybe interesting) blog on this by NotJustBikes, if you want some footage from north America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_0DgnJ1uQ
Pretty sure that planter shouldn't be there and it look like the red Biffa bin, after the low wall, may have borne the brunt. But it's quite a distance this driver has covered from the road.
Lorry is still there 2 weeks on
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23225052.lorry-came-off-a12-crashed-...
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.
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