Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

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.

What on earth for?  I mean - nothing's changed about his actions so why should we treat him differently now?  Telling lies - check.  One rule for me, one rule for the rest?  Check.  Illegal activity?  Check. (OK not actually fined / convicted but this isn't the first police investigation and if you think people are inciting on road.cc surely this conversation would trigger you [more here and here]).

Don't worry I won't make it a habit, but that one was too crazy not to share

chrisonatrike wrote:

What on earth for?  I mean - nothing's changed about his actions so why should we treat him differently now?  Telling lies - check.  One rule for me, one rule for the rest?  Check.  Illegal activity?  Check. (OK not actually fined / convicted but this isn't the first police investigation and if you think people are inciting on road.cc surely this conversation would trigger you [more here and here]).

That can't be right - those don't sound like the actions of a law abiding Prime Minister

Oh - I wasn't complaining - merely suggesting that it's done more than enough to deserve a leading role of its own - I make that seven of them just in the last week's worth of comments here (albeit a couple of those have the twofer of also involving a building).

Buller Buller Buller.

documentary Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise wrote:

"This is a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness," Mr Johnson said when reminded of his exploits as part of the documentary.

Lads are lads.  Back in the day.  So that's OK then.

From here - documentary here.

Why in power?  See comments on the documentary e.g. "Boris comes across as an extremely likeable chap, he shows great optimism and has a great sense of humour." and (maybe tongue in cheek) "It’s unique and fantastic how Boris manages to deflect and laugh at something that would probably end most politicians careers!"

driver charged with 16 offences, including assaulting a police officer, gets a suspended sentence  https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23209063.lee-nicholls-stole-ferrari-c...

Thinking Skills eh.
Would that be how to commit more offences but not go to jail?

David9694 wrote:

Ipswich seems quite a lively place for pranging your car or overturning it on a quick squizz through the other stories 

More flipping cars in Suffolk.

Car crashes into tree and flips over in West Suffolk village

https://www.suffolklive.com/news/suffolk-news/icklingham-car-crash-into-...

Strange place that Ipswich 

Not that much really, it just has more than its fair share of drivers who are complete tools

Quote:

"It is not known what happened to cause the cars to flip onto their roofs in such a low-speed area."

Give that journo a prize!  So dry I'm reaching for a lemon to rehydrate.

Clearly local distortions in the fabric of spacetime... 

hawkinspeter wrote:

Apparently, there's reports that the tow truck coming to rescue it is struggling to get past parked cars.

Quote:

The driver has managed not to touch the fence, the wall or the house or any cars. But it will be a bit of a challenge getting it back out again

The Post reckoned they finally got it out at about 10pm last night.  So it was stuck there for about fifteen hours.  Does the driver get overtime?

Dunno but I hope they paid extra for taking up 3 spaces !

That Wilf Johnson in the comments seems like some of the tosser trolls on here. Got very defensive when blaming *insert german manufacturer* here. 

brooksby wrote:

The Post reckoned they finally got it out at about 10pm last night.  So it was stuck there for about fifteen hours.  Does the driver get overtime?

I hope so. He can't just abandon it, so he had to hang around until it was freed. He features in a couple of the photos and seems quite calm.