Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Car overturns in Manor Road, Bournemouth

"Crews from Springbourne and Westbourne were mobilised and on arrival found a single vehicle which had rolled onto it’s side after the driver had a medical episode."

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20120035.car-overturns-manor-road...

Road near Horton Inn closed after crash

"Crews from Cranborne and Verwood were mobilised to the incident and on arrival found a single vehicle on its roof with one person trapped. 

"Crews used hydraulic cutting equipment to release the casualty from the vehicle and handed over to paramedics. 

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20119475.road-near-horton-inn-clo...

 He didn't buy an SUV lest the tyre extinguishers got him, so...

M20 driver with sofas 'hanging out' of vehicle stopped by police

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/couch-me-if-you-can-sofa-laden-dr...

No suitable place for strip club in BCP area, says councillor

OK, I'm, sorry, no cars in this story at all. Just the idea of wrongly delivered items turning up and a vague memory of The Piranah Brothers (Kray twins send-up) - extract below - prompted by:

Taran Ojla, Wiggle general manager, said...“We are an established business, which provides entertainment for all to enjoy."  

 'https://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode14.htm#5

Presenter Most of the strange tales concern Dinsdale, but what about Doug? One man who met him was Luigi Vercotti. 
Cut to tatty office with desk and phone. Vercotti at deak.
Vercotti Well, I had been running a successful escort agency - high class, no really, high class girls - we didn't have any of that. That was right out. And I decided then to open a high-class night club for the gentry at Biggleswade with International cuisine, cooking, top-line acts, and not a cheap clip joint for picking up tarts, that was right out, I deny that completely, and one night Dinsdale walked in with a couple of big lads, one of whom was carrying a tactical nuclear missile. They said I'd bought one of their fruit machines and would I pay for it. 
Interviewer How much did they want?
Vercotti Three quarters of a million pounds. 

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20154841.bournemouth-councillor-o...

Suspected driver arrested after crashing into Poultry Cross in Salisbury

Another great moment for cars degrading our lives and environment - Salisbury's Butter Cross hit. Let's see now...

Audi A.3 - check 

small hours - check

Drunk - check

disqualified - check

https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/20156281.suspected-driver-arrest...

Nul points for me on this story, I guess.

Isle of Wight man almost crashed into wall while drink driving

"....he subtly drifted in the carriageway before inexplicably mounting a kerb and nearly crashing into a wall." 

A few days away on the Isle of Wight. Place seems to be infested with souped-up, lowered cars, drivers of which seem drawn to car parks with speed humps.  Obscure fact: the IoW bus service is pretty amazing for coverage and frequency, and we're still on the winter timetable.  If you want to know what feeedom looks like pick up a Southern Vectis timetable. 

https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/20151255.isle-wight-man-almost-crashe...

Hyundai High and dry

Hyundai SUV crashes into hedges near Ipswich industrial estate

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/traffic/ipswich-hyundai-crashes-into-...

#NoDriverInvolved

"just another day at the Pleasaunce"

The delivery vehicle reversed into a brick wall outside the building on Harbord Road in Overstrand at approximately 10.30am on Monday (May 23).

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/traffic/pleasaunce-overstrand-van-crashes-i...

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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.