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Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories
Running this one up the flagpole to see who salutes...
I just don't remember this being a thing until recently, now it seems a daily occurrence.
Could it be that there are drivers not up to the job, too many cars; should houses be made to ride in single file, shops put on high viz, why are we putting newer buildings in danger like this, it's irresponsible.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18649201.car-crash-wall-iceland-s...
'A Dorset Police spokesperson said: "Dorset Police was called at 12.48pm on Thursday, August 13, to a report of a collision involving a car and a wall outside Iceland on Poole Road in Bournemouth.
"It is reported that the vehicle was also in collision with a pedestrian, but they did not require medical treatment." '
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Maybe time for a new thread...'Cruelly mistreated business owners sacrificed at the altar of the war on motorists'...
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Quite so. Presumably these are for ebikes only? Or I suppose they could be powered by a dynamo - that way they are guaranteed to let go as you stop...
- Car Delenda Est 7 hours 39 min ago
it seems that a lot, if not most, driving instructors teach that you only need to indicate in the presence of other motor vehicles, cyclists and...
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She clearly had no idea that she was doing anything wrong and had therefore decided I was being some kind of letch...
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It's worse than that - it is 50% heavier than they claim
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Thanks for the review! If it's this one it appears to be the Cyclops design (compare that to the Dutch urban cycle-priority roundabout here)....
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Tiny little pencils?
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I would imagine just to be able to sit down, if they wanted to pedal they could just get a bike?
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Audi driver leaves cars and garden wall wrecked after 'losing it' in residential street
Horrified neighbours say the driver was travelling at up to 70mph along the residential road
"The driver got up and walked away, it's horrendous, they just fly up and down."
“We’re on the phone to insurance now and they’re saying we’re going to have to pay the excess because there were no tags on the Audi, and it belonged to no-one. It’s likely that they’ll never find the person."
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/aud...
Cornwall triple bill
Lorry gets stuck on scaffolding after colliding with property
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/lorry-gets-stuck-scaffol...
Reversing car careers into Cancer Research charity shop in Cornwall
A witness said the driver reversed out a parking space too quickly before smashing into the front of the shop
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/reversing-car-careers-ca...
Camborne woman arrested after three crashes in one night
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/camborne-woman-arrested-...
And weirdly, sometimes the correct agreed journalistic style sounds just wrong...
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/pictures-show-rownham-hi...
5 people injured as a BMW flips after hitting a lamp post in Market Drayton, Shropshire at 3.30am on Friday morning.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/transport/2022/09/02/five-suffer-min...
Drink-driving seems to be on the rise.
Make them wear hi-viz, and keep well to the side of the road, because if only they were visible to motorists, and were not in their way, the roads would be safe for bollards ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-62767547
Boy, 16, charged with dangerous driving after car crashes on Stechford road
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/boy-16-charged-dange...
Not sure if this was caught at the time but I was driven past the building which is still unrepaired. The wall has a car sized indentation in the front, but the side has deep cracks about 2 metres high about a metre back from the front wall. It's not until you read the story you can understand how a driver achieved such incompetence.
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19944084.dangerous-driver-arrested-car...
Gonna sound like a whingeing driver here, but isn't this (photo) the police doing the exact same thing they normally book drivers for?
Car heading on M62 towards Manchester flips over and lands on roof on OTHER side of carriageway
The driver of the car escaped with minor injuries after the three-vehicle crash
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/car...
Also
Man in his 80s taken to hospital after being cut from flipped over car in middle of road
The man did not sustain any serious injuries in the crash
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/man...
Car crashes into house in Dereham
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/traffic/dereham-crash-blocks-busy-junction-...
BMW
Plea for road safety measures after car crashes into home
perhaps the driver should give up their home in situations like this where they have rendered someone else homeless?
"The family had to leave their bungalow immediately due to the structural damage and have only just moved back in after five months of living out of suitcases, and fear for their safety."
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/car-crashes-into-house-in-scratby-9260308
Tower Bridge Road.
https://twitter.com/lorenzo_hermoso/status/1568952976764698627
Very sad one here. Infant killed.
https://abc7chicago.com/semi-trailer-crashes-into-house-winnebago-county...
Trapped driver rescued from overturned car in (20 mph) Starcross
Three parked cars were also damaged during the incident
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/trapped-driver-rescued-overtur...
Car flattens brick wall and crashes into garden adjoining Tesco car park in Bishop's Stortford
#NoDriverInvolved
https://www.bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/news/car-crashes-through-g...
Watling Street Dartford crash: Man taken to hospital
#NoDriverInvolved
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/22117836.watling-street-dartford-cras...
Drink driver sentenced at Salisbury Magistrates' Court
Prosecutor Bethany Adams told the court that on August 20 at 10.45pm police received a report of a blue Seat crashing into bollards on Century Close in Devizes.
When officers attended the scene they found the defendant, who was slurring his words, in the driver’s seat of the vehicle which had been damaged during the incident along with the bollards and pavement.
Sherman was disqualified from driving for 20 months and fined £120. He was also ordered to pay a surcharge of £34 and court costs of £85.
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/21870685.drink-driver-sentenced-...
Residential Rochford road shuts after car crashes into home in broad daylight
#NoDriverInvolved
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/residential-rochford-road-shu...
The screenshot is just because the photo description is from a different article, showing how Reach's local news reporting isn't very local
Police catch 'unbelievable' A38 driver with massive carpet on its roof
from Devonlive
This is from earlier in the year, don't think it's been posted already. Building still hasn't been repaired.
https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/traffic/wroxham-social-club-dama...
Mods, is it possible that comments on this post could be frozen, with a link taking the reader to a newly minted forum post on the same topic, where the comment threading might stand a chance of working?
Dad 'heartbroken' after driver ploughs BMW into family home then flees when he tried to help
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/dad...
Coastguard called to car and jetski stuck on Somerset salt marsh
The driver had tried to launch a jet ski
Is that a blacked-out Audi?
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/coastguard-called-car-...
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...
https://mobile.twitter.com/BulldogBDX/status/1572599741871161345
Videos of this one.
Should have been wearing hi viz.
Thank goodness for all those cans.
"It was a miracle no-one was killed" - Local people in shock after police car crashes into shop
The car was wearing hi-viz but the shop was not
https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/it-miracle-no-one-killed-25076201
Car flies through the air and crashes into upstairs room of Huddersfield house
Here is the corner in question
https://maps.app.goo.gl/9UA7GzLiE8WS2gQYA
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/car-flies-throug...
Lorry crashes into roof of Uffculme house before crashing into second property
'Early reports suggested the HGV had been travelling down High Street when due to the "narrow nature" [🤣🤣🤣] of the route the vehicle collided with buildings on both sides of the road.'
no decent pictures in the article - the Google Maps is where High Street meets The Square.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/lorry-crashes-roof-uffculme-ho...
Car hits bystanders.
I wonder did it spring open its doors like Herbie did in Love Bug?
Car gets stuck between lamppost and wall after Sparkhill crash
Birmingham Police officers made the discovery after finding the VW Golf crashed into a wall in Sparkhill
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/car-gets-stuck-betwe...
BMW driver arrested after ploughing into traffic lights following police chase across Birmingham
The driver of the white 4 series BMW was arrested in Northfield after failing to stop for police in Rubery, Bromsgrove
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/bmw-driver-arrested-...
Car crashes into a pedestrian crossing in Maidstone
#NoDriverInvolved
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/car-smashes-into-pedestrian-...
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