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They were planning on flooring it
The struck car did not appear to have been left with its parking brake on.
It's lucky that they didn't kill anyone or else it would have been in-fanta-cide
Four incidents (+ boulders) and great faith in paint and signs:
"Now, Mr Locke is hoping the incident leads to better signs on the road to warn people of the turn. He hopes black-and-white chevrons to indicate the bend are added to prevent future accidents."
Spectators whose very presence encourages foolish and dangerous driving are hit by foolish and dangerous driver.
Will they follow the logic of cycle path protection though and declare the lamp post dangerous (because someone hit it) and remove it?
Those bollards need sacking.
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/oADXc6Y7garRFhe16
So someone's going to crash into the building because they didn't know there was a turn there?! I could almost understand going down the driveway, but the reason not to drive where the building is, is that there's a building there, in front of you, visible, and definitely not a road. Roads are seldom vertical.
Great reporting, interviewing someone who knows nothing about the incident. They might as well have interviewed someone in Australia.
Apparently not a "medical episode"
and no mention of anyone being under investigation for this. I guess it must have been the Citroen...
WOW, I can't believe a BMX did that much damage, & why was the pensioner keeping a vehicle in her front room?
Even though someone had managed to drive it fully into the garden. But cyclists...
It could be that the skip was delivered and the builders shoved it into the building empty. Skip lorries often pick up skips in odd ways (I've lived next to a few building sites) so the builders assumed the skip lorry could drag it out, and didn't account for a spacially challenged driver?
It's the way it looks to have been moving at speed, on its roof before hitting the tree which went deep into the front.
Planning on doing a runner 🧥
Whoever installed them needs sacking. Those bollards are easily capable of stopping that car when installed properly. It looks like someone took a shortcut and just sank them into soil below the thin pavers, instead of a significant mass of concrete.
I hadn't realised that your average Facebook user has the recall skills to navigate roads by memory rather than sight.
Can you man-handle an empty skip along the ground? I suppose the lorry could pull it out, which might have been what was being attempted here as the door frame has been pulled away. Seems like a lot of trouble for builders to go to?
Thank goodness e-bikes are limited to 25 km/h
Yes, typically with a mini-digger. It does seem like the mistaken assumption of what goes in must come out.
Beginning to think we need a new thread for "car overturns..." stories - a bit like the original CCIB theme, you just start noticing story after story where you didn't before.
Doesn't look like broad daylight to me
That takes some beating.
Well it's a moot point if it made a difference here, but it's a "must not" rule in the HC to park your car facing traffic at night, and I'm assuming part of the pavement doesnt count as a proper parking space.
On a serious note (for once) the video posted by hirsute shows what happened - I.e. another car turns across the police car's path - SMIDYT with your blue flashing lights.
A lucky escape for one shopper (as reported by Belfast Live)
These so-called car meets cannot be described as "events". If is like those we had a run of in Southampton, they are a mass trespass and often a noise nuisance for local residents.
All made worse by the "let them have their fun" attitude in the comments, while a cycle cafe (Warren Row - remember all that?) gets the local council coming after it.
Hello, Halfords, yes, I'm having trouble with my brakes.
I can make you an appointment to bring it in Sir, but we often find it's the nut that holds the steering wheel.
We need a black box in every car that means it will not start for someone in this state, will not be driven like this - it stops, not just a warning - and ensures that no car will start for Vose until his ban is up or more preferably, ever.
When was the last time you saw a car with parking lights switched on? Back in the day, my dad had a special parking light wired in with a long wire (don't think we had a fag lighter fitted as an extra) that clipped onto the window of his Mk1 1100 (the one with wing mirrors) - which also meant you could park on the wrong side of the road as you fitted it with the white light facing backwards. Our Mk2 1100 had a small built in parking light on the frame between the doors.
We posted within 2 mins of each other on the same story.
One twitter comment was the cop driver should have braked and taken the hit rather than risk endangering others. (protective cage, air bags, crumple zones).
You can clearly see how that lady was protected by that mass of cans.
That's one of my background fears with being overtaken on bends - they are going to take me out when they swerve to avoid a head on.
Not the first one to involve spectators. Bassett's Pole was 2004:
https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2004/may/woman-dies-after-bassetts-p...
Solihull like many other places has permanent injunctions in place (though I think the legality of such blanket injunctions has successfully been challenged - you can't make an injunction against someone who hasn't been involved in or made aware of in the legal argument or some such, if I understood it correctly).
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