Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

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).

part of me thinks theres a period when they did, but ultimately although the tech does change the front lights on a car are largely basically big front reflectors anyway, so I dont see what value that would add with additional reflectors, plus frankly if you cant see a car shaped object in your way in the dark, you probably shouldnt be driving anyway.

David9694 wrote:

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

In the UK, number plates must be made of a reflective material, so in a way, there is a largish white rectangle reflector. 

I believe rear and pedal reflectors are required by law but on the front they are only suggested.

Wheel reflectors are only advisory too.

I like the spoke straws.

Risking a pile-up if going fast.