Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Self-driving car takes responsibility for charging itself.

Self-driving turf war, perhaps?

He ran a red light too. Probably an off duty cyclist.

brooksby wrote:

Shocking moment Ferrari SF90 hypercar worth £500,000 smashes into three parked cars

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/18727170/moment-ferrari-hypercar-smashes...

Quote:

The ... clip shows the supercar suddenly appear before propelling directly into a white vehicle parked up on the street.

And it showed no sign of slowing down after the initial impact, but instead created a domino effect of destruction.

The car, worth half a million pounds, then careered into two other vehicles - causing quite a costly amount of damage.

The dazed driver can be seen crawling out of the shiny red hypercar after the high speed smash, before cops and fire crews rushed to the scene at 7.40pm.

Final passing mention of a driver getting out.  All agency appears to be ascribed to the car itself...

Clearly it wasn't the drivers fault.. The Sun was in his eyes  

Full story here.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/woman-drove-into-petrol-st...

Quote:

Chris Evans, mitigating, said Lee was a relatively new driver who had got her full licence just three months before the incident. He added that her friend's car was an automatic, which she had not driven before and was not experienced with.

"It's shocking footage when you view it not least to Ms Lee herself. It's fortunate that the injuries were not more serious," he said. "Clearly not being used to driving this vehicle had an impact in what can be described as a gross misjudgement in driving."

I'm pretty sure the only difference between an automatic and a manual is gears, they both still have an accelerator and a brake. 

Quote:

However the judge said Lee had been visibly "devastated" when she realised Mr Borek had been injured and said he was minded to take account of her personal circumstances, which included caring for her elderly parents and her own ongoing health issues.

Ms Lee was given an eight-month jail sentence suspended for 18 months and 120 hours of unpaid work. She was also disqualified from driving for two and a half years from the date of her interim disqualification on April 22 this year. She must also pay a £420 in prosecution costs and a £156 surcharge.

So not much then. 

peter - I liked the Post's sub-headline on that story:

Quote:

One witness said he had been 'mounting the pavement' and 'driving on the wrong side' of the road

Ooo-errr, missus!

Jogle wrote:

Car crashes through brick wall and into house in Bristol #NoDriverInvolved https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-through-bric...

I just saw that one.  Amazing that there was an entire article with quite literally no mention of a driver...

Again, the "size" factor is less important for me, but...

4 years.

Automatically down to a never-awarded maximum of 9 1/3 because guilty plea before the off of course.  Sounds like this occured during some other badness, doing 80 in built-up zones, through red lights, hit not just one but two, drove off with someone attached to car, tried to shake her off.  Going on the lam after that would seem sensible rather than an additional offense.

What does it take, being in an illegally souped-up Russian armoured vehicle, running over pregnant deputy-inspectors and corgis at a jubilee parade?  It does seem that the much vaunted whataboutery of "if I broke any law in a motor vehicle I'd have the book thrown at me, unlike cyclists" is only true if the book is a copy of the Beano.

If only he'd been able to keep cycling - in a safer environment.  True - he might have come off his bike and that might be enough.  But the possibility he'd kill someone else is much less.  Even better if there was provision for cycling (side-by-side) with a friend.

Depending on the car, maybe an attempt to cover some obviously tiny genitalia?  Hopefully the police didn't brief the press - and compound the problem.

Nominative determinism extending to lorries now.

Not sure if my irony meter is actually broken or wether SocialistHero (comments on Bristol Post article) is too subtle for it.

SocialistHero5 HRS AGO

Trees are a menace. Cut mire down and make the road wider. I can't think of any other solution

The damage to the hi viz warnings on the top...

You're going to take a little longer to get to a thousand on that topic.

Earlier this year a 26 tonne HGV struck the underpass and the driver failed to stop

So he gets 2 months HGV ban, which is severe under-punishment for failing to stop and for being a useless HGV driver with no road awareness or brains. However, even these trivial punishments are more than he would get up here where the HIP-sters (Hyper Indolent Policing) wouldn't even be able to work out how to use those numbers and letters to identify the vehicle. This, for variety, is just one of the many long term 'No VED' offenders in Lancashire- secure in the knowledge that no action will ever be taken against them. MJ09 LFH has already saved over 2 years of 'road tax' by his enterprise!

Well, they often end up on their own rooves.

IanMSpencer wrote:

He ran a red light too. Probably an off duty cyclist.

We need a way to identify cyclists when they're driving

Presumably counted across 2 pedals left-to-right to find the brake...

Mungecrundle wrote:

Not sure if my irony meter is actually broken or wether SocialistHero (comments on Bristol Post article) is too subtle for it. SocialistHero5 HRS AGO Trees are a menace. Cut mire down and make the road wider. I can't think of any other solution

I reckon it's ironic, but with car culture being so ingrained, sometimes you can't tell

Meanwhile Surrey cops go round with their unmarked car and there twitter page is full of drivers pulled over with no insurance, ved, mot. eg

https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/1539958772751368192