Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

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. 

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 driver who knew about parking lights and how/when to use them? 
In contrast to your dad - that's a nice story. 

I expect the turning driver had been making that turn for 20 years and never had a issue.

Split-second stuff.  I guess we'll never know what siuqtion it was they were all racing to - I hope it was worth the effort. 

Is there a reason cars don't have front reflectors? New bikes have come with them since my days in Halfords in the 1980s.

I think the world is a more illuminated place than when the HC was written so perhaps a slightly quaint rule; in the case of this story, in a suburban street, the f/r orientation of the car that was hit won't have made any real difference. 

There's a difference between what has to be supplied with a new bike - f and r reflectors and side/wheel reflectors, I think it was, and requirements once you've taken delivery, I.e. the front and side reflectors can come off.

Lights aren't required to be supplied, but must be used at night, of course and I think the red reflector might still be  in thr mix. It's nothing a letter to the advice column of thr CUK magazine wouldn't resolve. 

Pedal reflectors are good because of the distinctive up/down motion, which catches drivers' attention in the moments between texts and breaths of laughing gas.