Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Police are looking for this suspect.

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David9694 wrote:

1000 comments In Car Crashes into Building 

Thank-you to all contributors.  An idle lock-down moment originally, but local newspapers continue to deliver these stories week after week.

The e-scooters show how we could regulate motor vehicles if we chose to - who can drive, and within preset limits, but we prefer to indulge drivers in their need for speed. 

I tend to stick with news stories where there aren’t injuries. Perhaps the most abject I found (on an a rare, active search) was car demolishes war memorial - if somehow a cyclist had done that it would have been in the national tabloids. 

A good chunk of the cases we find sound like the local drugs trade in action, arising from that oh so harmless “yeh, I smoke a bit” - the drivers, the way they disappear off, the time of incidents, the makes of cars involved. 

Some crashes are the grey menace, the “I have no choice” brigade - it’s too easy to put a car in gear/ wrong gear and move it - into the end of your own garage or through a shop window.  Have your “medical episode” on the bus, please.

Most are evidence of significant, endemic incompetence among drivers who can’t manage avoid fixed objects, so what chance a moving object - chancing it, over-estimating their own skill, under-estimating the situation. Yet we seem happy to live with it all, a nation of boiled frogs.

I was hoping that you would have the honour of the thousandth post.

I had been looking for a spectacular picture, but I don't think I could beat a Mini War Memorial Demolition.

I've got to check my bike cameras as on the way back from work I went past car which was sticking out into the road at a strange angle. When I got to the front of it I found that a large metal bollard had come out of nowhere and attacked it. Or at least I assume that's how you destroy the front end of a car on a bollard.

rode that route at the weekend as it happened, the driver must have exited the roundabout,and just driven straightacross 3 lanes of road, mounted the kerb, and over the shared cycle to path to end up in the hedge by Frankie & Bennys

Probably a wee free car - enraged by the council-installed pagan stone circle.

(What is it with those?  Edinburgh's slapped them all over the estates.  If garden-centre ornaments set in a corner of clarty wasteland could re-racinate the celts the country would have seceded by now and probably burnt Londinuim too.)

Off road police bike, look at those tyres.

hirsute wrote:

"No offences were identified".

How is that possible? Surely, a parking ticket would be appropriate if nothing else.

Lucky that no-one was "working" in the garden with lots of colleagues.

Betwaddled? Ye've ‘ad a gurt fossick but we'll 'ave ye out dreckly.

brooksby wrote:

How on earth did they manage that??

Support pillar was not wearing hi-vis.

Since the Echo describes it a 'single vehicle crash' they don't seem to think the cyclist even existed. 

Probably more of a local suspect here https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/traffic/car-on-its-roof-foxhall-road-...

The road has a 50mph limit to try and lessen the impact of these crashes which happen very frequently. It's not a section of road I will ever risk cycling on.

David9694 wrote:

I guess we'll never get to know the "genuine reason" for hitting the pump?

Maybe he had to intervene to stop it assaulting another innocent vehicle.

Irrelevant now that there's a video of Keir Starmer drinking a beer somewhere.  Furthermore that shows that Keir Starmer is a hypocrite and should resign so Boris can get on with delivering private parties for Downing Street the cabinet nation.

Well, you can't expect the driver to eat last night's left over curry, text his girlfriend, leer at some totty* on the other side of the road and remain in control, can you?

*Which reminds me of a school mate in the 1970s who as a first year student in Lancaster got an inheritance and blew it on a  brand new Triumph Dolomite Sprint (the dog's bo*****s at the time) and within 2 weeks ploughed into a parked car because he was letching at some girl on the other side of the road.

chrisonatrike wrote:

Irrelevant now that there's a video of Keir Starmer drinking a beer somewhere.  Furthermore that shows that Keir Starmer is a hypocrite and should resign so Boris can get on with delivering private parties for Downing Street the cabinet nation.

Keir has stated that he'll do the right thing if he does get fined, so at least he has some integrity or is very sure that it was a work event.

Yep seems to be a weekly occurrence,
This is the wackiest one recently,with a parked range rover ending up on its side
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/crime/ipswich-man-charged-after-stole...

hawkinspeter wrote:

chrisonatrike wrote:

Irrelevant now that there's a video of Keir Starmer drinking a beer somewhere.  Furthermore that shows that Keir Starmer is a hypocrite and should resign so Boris can get on with delivering private parties for Downing Street the cabinet nation.

Keir has stated that he'll do the right thing if he does get fined, so at least he has some integrity or is very sure that it was a work event.

A Govt MP has done an interview saying how even if Starmer resigns, that has no bearing on what action Johnson takes or could have taken (the implication being that Starmer has integrity or at least pretends to, whereas Johnson really couldn't care less).

More cars on their roofs in Ipswich...again https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/traffic/two-cars-overturned-woodbridg...

brooksby wrote:

A Govt MP has done an interview saying how even if Starmer resigns, that has no bearing on what action Johnson takes or could have taken (the implication being that Starmer has integrity or at least pretends to, whereas Johnson really couldn't care less).

Well to be fair, it's like comparing apples and oranges. Johnson is in power and Starmer isn't; Johnson created the rules and Starmer didn't; Johnson has been fined and Starmer hasn't.

Hold on a minute, that makes it seem utterly incredible that Johnson hasn't been forcibly ejected from office

I feel like cars on their rooves needs its own spin-off (if you will) thread.