Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

They were planning on flooring it

Jogle wrote:

CCTV shows moment vehicle almost flipped after smashing into parked car and leaving scene I've read the comments at the bottom and it seems to be that it isn't the fault of the driver; the parked car is to blame for being parked on the wrong side of the road. I must also point out that I can't see that the parked car was wearing hi-viz or a helmet, they were just asking for trouble if you ask me! https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/cctv-shows-moment-vehic...

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

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.

Quote:

"It was very surprising when I saw it on Facebook. I suppose it was someone not from this area as everyone knows there is a turn there, unless it was like a health issue maybe."

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.

Quote:

Another resident who did not wish to be named said: "I didn't know there was an accident, I hope everyone is alright."

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...

Simon E wrote:

Michael Vose "deliberately crashed his BMX X6 into a bungalow" in Bolton.

WOW, I can't believe a BMX did that much damage, & why was the pensioner keeping a vehicle in her front room?

Eastern Daily Press wrote:

The road was blocked while the incident was dealt with.

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.

hirsute wrote:

Those bollards need sacking.

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.

Yes, typically with a mini-digger. It does seem like the mistaken assumption of what goes in must come out.

Doesn't look like broad daylight to me

David9694 wrote:

Police catch 'unbelievable' A38 driver with massive carpet on its roof

from Devonlive 

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.

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).