Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

hawkinspeter wrote:

Awavey wrote:

Met police say no apparent offences... https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/car-stranded-outside-so...

How on earth? Surely, driving down steps onto a pavement is below the standard of a competent driver?

Budget Italien job

andystow wrote:

hirsute wrote:

Disqualified driver jailed after crashing stolen car into bus stop

video

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-63715762

Is that a phone in her left hand as it comes out of the window?

Why yes, I believe it is.  I hope someone got her permission before filming her 

Those electric vehicles accelerate fast, and have very deliverable power all through the range.

As ktache says. Electric vehicles accelerate really quickly and if you're not used the it they can catch you out. I'm figuring that the driver has pulled out of Park Wynd and buried themselves in the building. 

David9694 wrote:

First suggested by HawkinsPeter, they should string cycle helmets along the wall opposite the mouth of Park Wynd.  I have it on good authority from Linda from Facebook that every little helps. 

If it saves one life...

Good thought - I've often wondered why cars don't have ship propellors festooned around their sides to return the favour.  Presumably using bike tyres or even helmets would look too much like ... trophy-taking?

I quite like the idea of that. As it will demonstrate the efficacy of these articles of polystyrene when they seen crushed into oblivion and a hole still punched into the side of the building. 

Obviously they should have thought before building it there... accident waiting for the cause of the accident to be invented and happen.

That's unfair.  The driver saw the hi-vis bridge, but no-one had thought to make his load hi-vis so he hadn't seen he was carrying it!  (Also it's lucky no other drivers crashed into the container while dazzled by the bridge).

I liked in that thread

Don't forget to lock your car."

"Done."

"That's not what I meant!"

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Hmm, no easy access to vehicles anywhere near there so I wonder how long they were driving along the canal path before that happened. Still near the lost city and within the Tipton Triangle so all sorts of weirdness happens there. 

Road past the Berkswell bridge today. It is barely high enough for an ordinary transit van. It is essentially a tunnel under the Birmingham New Street to Euston line and the road can't be lowered because of flooding. It has advanced warning signs and height measuring sensors s linked to automatic warning signs, and then it is plastered in high Viz. Still a driver always knows best, aye?

Edit: came across that this was a replacement for a level crossing installed in 2004, so is actually modern infrastructure - I vaguely remember it being built now I think back. I'm guessing there are quite a few 7' bridges around on that basis, must remember that when I've next got a bike rack on.

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

Hmm, no easy access to vehicles anywhere near there so I wonder how long they were driving along the canal path before that happened. Still near the lost city and within the Tipton Triangle so all sorts of weirdness happens there. 

Lesser known cousin of the Bermuda Triangle?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-63694291

The dumping of three cars in canals within a week could cost a charity around £30,000.

I don't doubt no. 7 is on there - it's a dastardly 7' bridge, single narrow lane, signal controlled and funneled in by downhill stretches from both sides. It's probably not higher because Berkswell is a properly sleepy village.