Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

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.

It is boldmere island next to sutton park and would be recognisable to anyone who watched the triathlon at the CWG as the entrance and exit to the park they used went that route. Looking at the damage on the island and the position of the car, they bombed it down the side of the park from Sutton side (which is stupidly a 40mph road anyway) at 70+ and it was too wet to slow down so just went straight on. 

The cycle hire on the map is just a docking station. 

reportedly moved a barrier before sinking his car into the freshly poured concrete

It was on the news up here. Highly enjoyable!

I know it rained here in the East yesterday morning, so maybe the roads werent as grippy, but I'm lost at how a car ends up there on that corner, theres a lot of bollards there, it's not just a random lone one of them near the cycle parking.

Jogle wrote:

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...

I don't know why they don't just put use a bit of hi-viz paint and maybe strap a bike helmet or two onto the buildings. Couldn't the council put a bit of white paint on the road to prevent vehicles striking the buildings?

Can they be sure it wasn't a cyclist though (who became invisible again after colliding with the pedestrian)?

Y'know, Rich_bc of this parish was starting to sound convincing on the subject but this column's really making me doubt the safety of these self-driving cars.  Machines still can't replace (drunk, vision-impaired, speeding, distracted, show-off, self-regarding, risk-taking, careless) humans!

I was thinking about that a couple of days ago; had just gone out on a quick lunchtime cycle, passed the remains of a recent two-car collision at a small "local street" mini-roundabout.  One car - fairly trashed - blocking one arm, so two police were in the middle directing traffic.  Presumably ambulance had attended.  Now "that's their job" but I was just thinking "there is a chunk of an afternoon's work for half a dozen or so qualified people, some disruption for local residents, someone's paying for this..."

That is just a few hundred yards up the road from where I work. I'm trying to work out how the car was hit so hard by a speeding driver to send it so hard into the church, yet not do any damage to the rest of the car from the pictures and video AND still manage to drive away. 

The approach angle to hit the church there is here. 

A kami-khazi strike?

Bollards - static objects winning the "war on the motorist" (or "drivers") for over ... 2000 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard#/media/File:Herculaneum_Bollard.jpg

I have noticed that many drivers don't seem to adjust their speed to the conditions these days.

I drop a gear when wet and two when very wet, just take it easier. Yes my disk brakes will now work incredibly well when very wet (front still screams mind...) But the tyres just don't have the traction. Far slower going around corners too, and less of a lean angle. But then, I'm part of the environment and not separated from it by a big metal and glass, temperature controlled box...

Shows that the safety railings are a proven danger to motorists.  Remove them! (And the shops!)

Very disrespectful given the time of year.

The village near where I work out up giant poppies on the lampposts last week and they all started wearing poppies on today's Sunday Brunch.

I'm sure many pictures could be taken showing no trains on their very expensive separated infrastructure.

if its fields you want https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/crime/driver-arrested-after-car-crashes-in-s...

I just liked the picture of the Alpacas reaction...or was it a Llama...the police werent sure

Can't help feeling it will still be someone else's fault when they interview the driver. "I was stuck behind a cyclist for at least 30 minutes so I had to go that way."

Awavey wrote:

I know it rained here in the East yesterday morning, so maybe the roads werent as grippy, but I'm lost at how a car ends up there on that corner, theres a lot of bollards there, it's not just a random lone one of them near the cycle parking.

They were just trying to get to Wetherspoons a bit faster

I think they should do an advertising campaign.  Send letters to the houses (at least all the ones that have registration e.g. a streetnumberplate) reminding them to share the road (and the off-road).

How do you even *do* that?