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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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a case for Cycleimg Mikey?
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/bekki-fairley-asks-drivers-to-stop...
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norwich-courier-speaks-of-relief-after-van-...
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/wall-smashed-in-bacton-by-driver-1-6834005
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cyclist suffers punctured lung: police spokesman said: “A 31-year-old man, the driver of the Audi, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, causing injury by dangerous driving and failing a drug test.”
all in a single visit to the Eastern Daily Press, looking for something else.
That bekki fairley one is insane.
If I lived nearby, I'd be up there stopping them.
A 2-car collision on A49 in Hadnall (30 mph limit), near Shrewsbury on last month. I know this road well, no excuses.
https://twitter.com/OPUShropshire/status/1293631605286871046
No buildings involved but 4 days later this incompetent idiot lost control in the wet, rolled their car down a bank on the A5.
https://twitter.com/OPUShropshire/status/1294921562483757056
The railway bridge by Shrewsbury station has had its share of stuck lorries over the years.
This is from a few years ago. If my average speed had been a smidge quicker, I would have been stood exactly where the car is. Saved by being a bit unfit.
Call me superstitious, but I don't use that crossing anymore!
There's a bridge in Romsey that has been hit more than 20 times:
https://www.romseyadvertiser.co.uk/news/18032717.20-lorries-15-years-get...
Bristol again, a bus and a bridge (possibly trying to be a James Bond film)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-54109763?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral
I know school bus drivers have only just got off furlough but...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-54099591
That's horrific
Another one for Bristol (Filton):
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/peugeot-stuck-house-filton-after-4491665
I like the re-purposed wheelie-bins!
One from the Isle of Wight. Audi, obviously.
https://onthewight.com/audi-supercar-crashes-into-wall-photos/
I liked the contrast between the rather hum-drum backland location and the "exotic" car - one of the commenters on the article has it right - where are you going to go on the IoW?
Car crashes into wall and telephone pole in early hours
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18684036.car-crashes-wall-telepho...
I see from the picture that neither the wall or telephone pole chose to be wearing Hi Viz.
There's the problem...
"This wall and this telegraph pole should have made themselves more visible".
Mandatory training, registration, taxation and insurance for walls and telegraph poles and this sort of thing would NEVER happen...
they blended in with the trees
It's high time that these obstructions that just hold up the traffic were removed from our streets - the schools go back in a few days' time, what will it be like then??
Bet they didn't have lights either. I mean, it's a RED CAR, did neither of them see him coming?
Free-flowing roads have been gridlocked since the arrival of pop-up telegraph poles and walls. Where was the consultation?
It's high time that these obstructions that just hold up the traffic were removed from our streets
Agreed- hence the oath that must be uttered by those hoping to be admitted to the BMW True Owner's Club: "Could save 10 seconds on the journey, knock that hospital* down"
* Insert social housing, care home, food bank, vegetarian store etc. according to taste
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18667889.van-gets-stuck-hedge-end-burge...
"A VAN driver has 'wiped out' a serving hatch at a Hampshire fast food restaurant as he drove the 'wrong way' down the drive-thru.
A witness has described the moment he saw a van drive the wrong way through the drive-thru at Burger King in Hedge End, 'wiping out' one of the serving hatches and damaging his own van."
Imagine the dire consequences of allowing bikes in!!
Does anyone else see signs for "Drivethru" fast food joints and think "Great, can I borrow a Challenger tank and do the job properly?"
Depressingly, crashing into and damaging a house carries a far higher punishment than crashing into and killing a person.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/man-jailed-car-crash-ho...
Also, it now appears that sitting on your sofa at home is another activity that you might want to wear a safety helmet for.
https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/18651199.old-bell-wooburn-may-not-...
Wow! "According to Thames Valley Police, the driver of the Audi - who ran away after crashing the car into the pub, leaving a man in his thirties seriously injured in the passenger seat - has not yet been found."
Hitch-hiker, was he?
Audis in public houses.
>crashing into and damaging a house carries a far higher punishment than >crashing into and killing a person
Really? The evidence? We live on a corner & have had our fence demolished twice (@ £1500 a time) by probable drunk drivers who simply reversed & drove away. Police won't even accept a report. Our insurance company says that's the norm.
"Really? The evidence?"
The link in their post shows that the man got 13 months prison, disqualified from driving for nine and half years and costs of £140 for crashing into a house. That was evidence.
It doesn't negate the fact that the police should investigate your fence being regularly flattened of course, so it's understandable that you're angry.
"Dorset Police was called at 12.48pm on Thursday, August 13, to a report of a collision involving a fist and a jaw outside Iceland on Poole Road in Bournemouth.
"It is reported that the fist was also in collision with a person, but they did not require medical treatment."
Why do Police statements have to be so convoluted to avoid any reference to the human behind the wheel?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/16/wiltshire-four-die-car-c...
A quick search of the Derby Telegraph site reveals over half a dozen stories of cars and houses colliding over the last year.
Even more worrying is the number of cars that have ended up on their roofs in the last 6 months, considering 3 of them were in lockdown. What could drivers be doing that could distract them so much that they were unable to keep their vehicles the right way up?
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