Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Well I blame the home owner. He decided to strip the house of it's hi-viz and then gets hit in the dark. 

I'd put in some tank traps, purely as a heritage exhibit of coastal defences of course, having a rusting steel I beam to crash into might focus some minds

There was a similar event on a beach in SE Anglesey about 25 years ago- the car was terminated, by the tide I think. Better still...it was a BMW.

Joy of joys! Google finds loads of these... OK, so it's a bit off-topic, but stiil fun!

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/moment-60k-car-submerged-sea-16230881

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/cemaes-bay-tide-submerges-car-11435010

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-56250162

CPS pre trial meeting: "Driving off the road at between 37-43 mph, lets just state it was careless instead of dangerous so we can all go home quickly"

Simon E wrote:

Bridgnorth, Shropshire - a white van crashed through a brick wall in the town centre on Saturday night after the driver lost control.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/bridgnorth/2021/06/22/bri...

You see? That's what happens when you let go of the reins...

https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2015/12/26/audis-in-houses/
 

I'm guessing that putting a car on it's roof (or the vehicle doing it all by itself) takes a bit of doing, travelling at less than 20mph in a 20 zone...

Is that checkerboard sign on the fence even a valid road sign? But even the local MP who once lived there (NFN) is now blaming the junction https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/duncan-baker-norwich-road-holt-car-house-cr...

Well obviously they are attempting to suggest that the race is now over...

Although you have to speed up to grab the checkered flag before the next person. 

The Junction is only as dangerous as the people who approach it. Unless I'm mistaken the car came from the road opposite which has several giveways signs and slow in the roads and yet they ignored them all. The junction is also lit as well. This isn't a problem with angles like the one in the New Forest or buildings blocking the views of oncoming traffic. Just arseholes speeding along and not taking any notice at all. 

The Beeb have some more details
& pictures of the car in the house, they are still blaming the road/house it seems for being in the way, but the driver was arrested on suspicion of drink driving & released under investigation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-57332351

"It's always been a fast road"

Speed limit is 30 and it is giveway and turn left or right not go straight on.

Yep it's the cognitive dissonance of the whole thing I just find so ludicrous and worrying as we share roads with people who believe they have no human agency, or free will, in how they drive their cars

Bloody wands.

"He called for action, saying the road needed changing, with more signage and lighting, as the current warning sign is not visible until motorists are at the junction."

Based purely on Google Streetview, this seems to be an odd claim - in addition to the sign at the junction itself, I can see two further warning signs along Hunworth Road at 45 yards and 150 yards (I think - Google has blurred out the text), both accompanied with "SLOW" painted on to the tarmac. Admittedly the hedge is encroaching onto the signs, so they might not be completely visible anymore.

All this really ought to be irrelevant of course if drivers simply obeyed highway code and drove at a speed which enabled them to stop well within the distance they can see to be clear.

I was up in Holt in the autumn. How they managed that is beyond me.
Lots of winding roads and trees, so they were lucky it was only a house.