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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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David9694 replied to mdavidford | 3 months ago
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"Do you want me to wash it for you?"

"can you do me a blowout?"* 

* Yeah ok I looked that one up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hairstyles

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wtjs replied to Simon E | 3 months ago
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Well, you know the BMW drivers' saying: knock that house (hospital, social housing, care home, hospital...) down, could save 30 seconds on the trip!

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wtjs replied to Pub bike | 3 months ago
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The fact that such self driving cars don't BMW/Audi drivers do exist is proof - as if it were needed - that Gods don't exist 

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David9694 replied to wtjs | 3 months ago
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That's the only confirmed BMW in that crop, there were a couple of Range Rovers and in the case of the York story, a Jaguar. Quite unlike the Cambs incident, this is another EV surging forward during a parking manœuvre. No substances, no medical episode it would seem. 

https://yorkmix.com/watch-shocking-moment-a-car-goes-out-of-control-befo...

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wtjs replied to David9694 | 3 months ago
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Fair enough:

Well, you know the overpowered, over-accelerating and/or EV drivers' saying: knock that house (hospital, social housing, care home, hospital...) down, could save 30 seconds on the trip!

 

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David9694 replied to Simon E | 3 months ago
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No, the lady doesn't sound all that keen on moving back there either. Here's the driver's eye view

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David9694 replied to mdavidford | 2 months ago
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It made a hole and police are looking into it. 

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Mr Blackbird replied to OnYerBike | 4 months ago
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Did the driver also claim that he was a member of Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple?

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chrisonabike replied to mdavidford | 3 months ago
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mdavidford wrote:

Autonomous buses in Glasgow using bridges to attack their passengers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk3pyp7yno

Yet another black mark against self-driving buses - or is it rail infra?  This time Kilmarnock:

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Four people have been hurt after a double decker bus crashed into a railway bridge tearing its roof off in Kilmarnock.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20e3z7vg07o

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wtjs replied to David9694 | 3 months ago
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A 39-year-old man has been arrested under suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident, drink driving, driving without a licence, dangerous driving and having no insurance
A dire threat of a good talking to, then?

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chrisonabike replied to Hirsute | 3 months ago
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RE: disqualified driver hits garden wall.  Was going to post that but:

a) The BBC got it right for once!  From the title it mentions a driver.

b) Although there was a crash into the built environment AND a car flip AND it's a problem of a driver (for everyone else) it doesn't really fit any of those threads.  This will be chalked up to "obvious wrong'un" and therefore not anything to do with "otherwise law-abding" drivers.  An exception which tests the rule but "is just one of those unavoidable consequences". (Along with all those road deaths).

But I do note the relatively short sentence (given previous) and the piddling "take two years off driving".  Which of course this chap has already proved he will ignore...

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David9694 replied to chrisonabike | 3 months ago
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Do you even have railway lines that far north? 

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chrisonabike replied to David9694 | 3 months ago
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David9694 wrote:

Do you even have railway lines that far north? 

That's a bit forward!  But yes; pop up any time you like.  Except when the buses have been at the bridges.

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David9694 replied to OnYerBike | 4 months ago
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brooksby replied to OnYerBike | 3 months ago
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OnYerBike wrote:

Not exactly a building, but car drives into swimming pool: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cp354g1x904o. (No footage of the actual incident, just the aftermath).

The driver claims he "accidentally stepped on the gas too hard".

Does he have a career producing album covers?

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mattw replied to OnYerBike | 3 months ago
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That's what they all say.

"Accidentally stepped on the gas too hard" is another way of saying "not paying enough attention".

In this case can't we just give the twat a Darwin Award?

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David9694 | 6 months ago
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Domin-oh-oops: Driver crashes car through Domino’s store

https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/driver-car-ploughs-dominos-store/

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David9694 | 6 months ago
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Barbourne crash: car stuck on wall by doctor's surgery

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24622584.barbourne-crash-car-stuck-...

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stonojnr | 5 months ago
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hawkinspeter | 5 months ago
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David9694 | 5 months ago
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Live updates after car crashes into Well Street doctor's surgery

'The door has been smashed to bits'

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/live-updates-af...

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Hirsute | 5 months ago
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Don't recall this gem

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Hirsute | 5 months ago
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"We don't know final amount of damage but at the moment it's at least £150,000-plus and it will probably be more."

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24635869.clacton-family-still-not-ho...

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This is why cyclists must have insurance.

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David9694 | 5 months ago
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Car crashes into side of Winchester city centre church

https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24642034.car-crashes-side-winc...

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hawkinspeter | 5 months ago
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Police officers were called to Fisher Close at around 5.30pm on Monday, October 7, with Cambridgeshire Constabulary stating the car involved was a silver BMW 3 series. A 28-year-old man from Ramsey was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, driving while unfit through drink or drugs and possession of cannabis, Cambridgeshire Live reports.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/bmw-ploughs-house-man-28-9623633

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David9694 | 5 months ago
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Bitterne Road West garden damaged in Southampton crash

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24646218.bitterne-road-west-garden-leve...

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Simon E | 5 months ago
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3 cars crashed and at least one caught fire under a railway bridge on the A4126 Spring Road in Wolverhampton at 11.15am today. Although the article doesn't say as much, it looks like at least one car crashed into the bridge [street view].

Trains between Wolverhampton and Birmingham have been cancelled and a bus replacement service between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury. National Rail are warning of problems until at least 5pm.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/transport/2024/10/12/car-crash-and-f...

Soulton Road in Wem was closed on Friday afternoon due to a car that had "collided with a push bike and a lamppost".

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/north-shropshire/2024/10/...

On the afternoon of 4 October the Star reports that "A stretch of hedgerow was engulfed with flames during a car fire" near Preston Brockhurst. Did someone's barbecue get out of control, with the poor car an innocent passer-by? Hmmmm...

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/north-shropshire/wem/2024...

Edit to add (Sunday):  at 1.50pm on Saturday Police and Fire Service were called to Griffins Wood Close in Lightmoor, Telford where a car had reversed into a house. "Inspection carried out and advice given to occupier" but no word on whether the fuckwit driver was charged.

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Jogle | 5 months ago
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Man jailed over funeral home car crash murder bid

My takeaway from this is that he needs a better brief. This is the sort of sentence that someone should get when they use their car as a weapon but we all know that it doesn't happen. If he hadn't admitted it, I think he probably could have got away with a one year ban (for drink driving) and a suspended sentence (for careless driving).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5e9dqxzy5o

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Tom_77 | 5 months ago
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Japan heritage worker backs car into oldest toilet at Kyoto temple

A man whose job it is to help preserve Japan's cultural heritage has accidentally smashed his car into the country's oldest toilet at a centuries-old Buddhist temple.

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