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Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories
Running this one up the flagpole to see who salutes...
I just don't remember this being a thing until recently, now it seems a daily occurrence.
Could it be that there are drivers not up to the job, too many cars; should houses be made to ride in single file, shops put on high viz, why are we putting newer buildings in danger like this, it's irresponsible.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18649201.car-crash-wall-iceland-s...
'A Dorset Police spokesperson said: "Dorset Police was called at 12.48pm on Thursday, August 13, to a report of a collision involving a car and a wall outside Iceland on Poole Road in Bournemouth.
"It is reported that the vehicle was also in collision with a pedestrian, but they did not require medical treatment." '
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New footage emerges of Tesco lorry that was stuck for 15 hours being rescued
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/new-footage-emerges-tesc...
And my favourite quote:
which surely translates as "I thought I wouldn't be able to do it, but thought I'd try anyway cos I'm a professional driver, innit"...
You have to wonder, watching the video, what idiot thought it was a good idea to take an articulated HGV down those streets...
I'm searching through the "rules" I have in my own mind for this thread and am flummoxed by this posting. Car crashes into...nothing at all, an empty beach, yet the idiot has still managed to overturn the wankpanzer.
He shouldn't drive there (on the footpath) either. The manoeuvre may have been misjudged, but the choice to drive on the pavement was entirely deliberate and unforced. Back to driving school.
Maybe it hit a sandcastle?
Going too fast and turning too sharply.
4x4s aren't always that stable, high centre of gravity.
And that looks like quite a narrow one...
Fell off the pier and washed ashore?
The article said lots of trucks are being driven through Montpelier to try and bypass the temporary traffic lights and road closure at the junction of Cheltenham Road and Ashley Road. So we can probably blame the driver's satnav... (and the driver for not having an ounce of common sense - "Well, the computer said I could go this way").
Car crashed into The Robin Hood in Sholing, Southampton
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19989124.car-crashed-robin-hood-sholing...
Some 2021 stories
'My dog flew across the room' - Bristol woman taken to hospital after car smashes through wall
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/my-dog-flew-across-room-...
Car smashes into house as others roll over in series of Christmas crashes
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/dudley/wordsley/2021/12/2...
Car removed a week after Peterborough house crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58401594
'Insufficient evidence' for road safety measures, says council after car crashes into house
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/insufficient-evidence-...
Latest update after woman crashes Kia Sportage into Lower Wick bungalow
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/19776419.latest-update-woman-crashe...
Drink driver, 19, smashes into home on Christmas Day just weeks after passing test
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/teen-drink-drive-christmas...
Family forced to move out after car ploughs into their Cardiff home (picture)
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cardiff-grangetown-car-cra...
No licence, no insurance, using phone, possible alcohol, fled scene, etc.
Still, at least the punishment was proportionate and appropriate. Oh wait a minute...
https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/19990164.uninsured-driver-fled-serious...
Third time's a charm... Title - the car did it. Photo caption - the car did it. Opening sentence - ah, it was the driver after all!
https://www.farnhamherald.com/news/999/a325-closed-after-lorry-hits-wrec...
Twitter thread has someone arguing that the lorry was 4.1m high but the ground was uneven so that's why it hit a 4.2m bridge.
Note the sign just above the rear of the lorry !
Residents heard big bang as car crashes into parked vehicle in Heaton
#NoDriverMentioned
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/20003185.residents-heard-big-bang-c...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60806993
Two teenage girls aged 15 and 16 are being held in custody after a car reversed into a shop front.
Why are they being held responsible for the software of the autonomous vehicle?
Fumin I am this morning. But no crashes. As well as another driver bailout in prospect (5p off fuel tax - Howard will be delighted I'm sure, but like Putin, whatever you give won't be enough) it's e-scooters - step forward the Kent Police & Crime Commissioner. I assume he has similar views on the private car experiment
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/its-time-to-end-the-e-scoot...
Our old friend, the Strood metal bollard is in the news again (for some reason). Sounds to me like it continues to do a very necessary job:
"It is there to stop vehicles mounting the pavement to protect pedestrians but it has been blamed for causing several accidents, including one involving Gary's son, Jonathan. He was on his way to work when his company car hit the bell, causing thousands of pounds of damage."
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/bollard-safety-fears-after-anot...
For once, the article comments have it right.
Car crashes into traffic light on Bath Road
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/20007243.car-crashes-traffic-li...
Driver (83) escapes injury after car smashes into hair salon's window in Old Milton Road, New Milton
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/car-ploughs-into-new-milton-ha...
(photo not remotely taken on a 'phone by a driver.)
Car smashes into wall in crash near Longham
someone's shopping in the foreground...
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20017388.car-smashes-wall-crash-n...
Kent Police take action against boy racers at Tesco Extra in Gillingham
One woman, who did not want to be named, said: "You lay there at night listening to it and you worry a car is going to crash through the front of your house.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/you-worry-a-car-is-going-to-cra...
And while we're in Kent, further proof (I think) that cars.destroy.everything:
Vulnerable people in Rainham and Sittingbourne warned to stay indoors because of poor air quality
I seen this reported for a number of areas this week. Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire seem bad for particulate matter for example. Yet on this snap, rural Herefordshire has a doesn't-quite-fit-the-narrative dose, and it's also quite bad out at sea.
Anyone know more?
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/vulnerable-people-warned-to-sta...
Driver crashes into wall outside Horse and Groom pub on the B4040
This is a rarity, a headline that says that there was a driver involved
https://www.wiltshirelive.co.uk/news/driver-crashes-wall-outside-horse-6...
Who says the US don't do irony ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/tpawr5/a_tesla_crashed_int...
Autonomous flying car spotted in Bristol, Whiteladies Road.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/tesla-goes-flying-window-shop-6905246
"this will confuse drivers" being wheeled out by the RAC - no buildings harmed but some palpable fear around local authority powers and how terrible it is to be fined when innocent, and the money is "raked in."
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/drivers-face-avalanche-of-wrongly...
check this video out!
Terrified residents thought missile had hit Luton Road, Chatham, as stolen car crashed
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/it-sounded-like-a-missile-comin...
Crashed into furniture shop, well into a furniture shop
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/tesla-goes-flying-window...
Having a normal one in Kent
Car crashes into wall and bursts into flames on Prince Charles Avenue in Walderslade
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/car-bursts-into-flames-after-cr...
Twitter followers will know of the "clown" incident with Adam Bronkhorst and Cllr Vinson, Dover's Portfolio Holder for Finance, Governance, Digital and Climate Change this week.
Anyway, the council leader is getting excitable now because Dover is "sacrificed" at times like this. Sometimes, the comments column gets it right: Dover voted for Brexit.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/weve-had-enough-265085/
(no buildings harmed AFAIK, but probably some hawthorn bushes adjoining the M20)
Not stricly a news story but too good not to share.. - https://twitter.com/DeepFriedToes_/status/1510330679283834883?s=20&t=GlI...
one car a week impaled on the Canterbury bollards:
Canterbury's anti-terror bollards spring 79 cars in 16 months since they were installed
“The town is already congested enough without people queuing up the road to get through the bollards.” Or 'the town is too busy to regulate the traffic.'
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/79-vehicles-sprung-by-anti-...
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