Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

He's cocked that one up.

as it doesnt read like the car driver is automatically coughing up for it, despite being clearly an idiot and at fault

I think he is! The Council/ Construction company are not going to be dim enough to miss this easy winner. Big insurance claim = big rise in premiums.

David9694 wrote:

Police upped patrols in the area following reports

My sister used to manage a clothes shop in Fowey (so the same area as this). One day there was some shoplifting but my sister knew who had done it (as they had been looking at and trying on the clothes that had been taken) and also knew that the shoplifters were going to work after leaving the shop (and so would still have the clothes). So she phoned the police, who told her that there was nothing that they could do because the police officer who covered Fowey had finished for the day.

Hopefully they've improved now or their next response will be something like "We heard that the flasher visited at noon each day, but we never saw them as we were on lunch"

David9694 wrote:

more e-scooter pearl clutching over in leafy Bath.  If only cars were geo-fenced/ regulated to this degree!

Whatever her real motivations are, and there seems to be a dispute on the facts of which is the steepest hill out the 3 routes to the university, at least Cllr Wright identifies the principal source of the danger: 

"Widcombe Hill is a dangerous hill for e-scooter users because of mixing at the low speed of 12.5mph with larger, faster-moving motorised vehicles, in combination with steepness, parked cars..."  

If only they could accelerate out of harm!

 
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/news-opinion/baths-dangerous-new-e-s...

Is that worse than Lansdown Lane?

David9694 wrote:

There is a small canon of jokes along these line, probably now only used by children's entertainers.

The formula is-

feed line/ set-up: <news announcement of incident> (typically, a lorry has shed its load, or something has been stolen)
Punchline: "a police spokesman said" <describes police response, involving a pun on, or other reference to the set-up> 

Example: lorry load of hair oil / police are combing the area.

My favourite: A lorry has shed its load of Marmite on the M4. Police are advising motorists to avoid the yeast-bound carriageway.

(Sorry, no cycling references)

David9694 wrote:

There is a small canon of jokes along these line, probably now only used by children's entertainers.

The formula is-

feed line/ set-up: <news announcement of incident> (typically, a lorry has shed its load, or something has been stolen)
Punchline: "a police spokesman said" <describes police response, involving a pun on, or other reference to the set-up> 

Example: lorry load of hair oil / police are combing the area. 

In our little world  it might be "the Part of the Sheldon Brown site that talks about English, French and Italian bottom brackets has been hacked - cyclists don't know which way to turn" 

The Two Ronnies featured a lot of news headlines like that:

We’ve just heard that a juggernaut of onions has shed its load all over the M1. Motorists are advised to find a hard shoulder to cry on.

West Mersea police announced tonight that they wish to interview a man wearing high heels and frilly knickers, but the Chief Constable said they must wear their normal uniforms.

A cement mixer has collided with a prison van on the Kingston bypass, motorists are told to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

David9694 wrote:

And it's good-night from me...

...and it's good-night from him. 

You use your insurer to recover the monies.
I'm guessing in that instance, it was taking so long, they stumped up the money before it has been recovered.

hirsute wrote:

The driver drove past a number of road closure signs and reportedly moved a barrier before sinking his car into the freshly poured concrete.

"The Peugeot was later recovered and Lancashire County Council said an investigation is under way to establish how the incident happened."

That should be a short investigation. Surely there needs to be a point where a licence is revoked because someone is too stupid, too arrogant or too angry to be allowed to drive.

Fecking num-nuts.

https://www.lep.co.uk/news/transport/driver-sinks-car-into-concrete-afte...

David9694 wrote:

Perhaps a fast road too, no?

So it's the road going fast, not the car being driven fast?

David9694 wrote:

What a mess! - Tarmac on A1 'driven through' leading to day of delays

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/what-mess-tarmac-a1-d...

Good thing it wasn't a cyclist with high pressure tyres. They'd have sunk to the centre of the earth!