[David9694]

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-store-westbourne/

‘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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[chrisonabike]

Shows that the safety

Shows that the safety railings are a proven danger to motorists.  Remove them! (And the shops!)

[David9694]

car would crash in to

car would crash in to building – another “welcome to our world, guys” story here.

“Our shop and the dog groomers have been left unprotected from traffic. Above our premises are flats and the situation really is a risk to everyone. A lot of kids walk along up to the High School and Tower Road Academy and there’s no protection.”

Businesses in Boston ‘unprotected’ from traffic as vehicles keep smashing into safety railings

Businesses say their premises have been left unprotected from traffic.

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/businesses-boston-unprotected-traffic-vehicles-7744497

[AlsoSomniloquism]

This is the same island /

This is the same island / house location as the one the other week with the car pictured on it’s roof. The main road straight across is 40mph because houses are only one side of them and rich people don’t want to drive slow, yet the road designs are really for 30mph use. 

[NOtotheEU]

I heard from a friend of a

I heard from a friend of a friend who used to work at Rover that when Rover redesigned the BMW Z rear axle for the 75 it handled so well that BMW insisted it was ‘softened’ to avoid showing up the M5. Sounds unlikely but I always hoped it was true.

[David9694]

We’re getting reports of a

We’re getting reports of a loose dog being run over in a country lane by a reversing Range Rover. Yorkshire Police say they have no leads. 

[mark1a]

David9694 wrote:

And it’s good-night from me…

…and it’s good-night from him. 

[David9694]

And it’s good-night from me..

And it’s good-night from me…

[IanMSpencer]

Not in that case, it was to

Not in that case, it was to do with a W204 C Class being driven in a “spirited fashion” and I was aware of it because mine only had traction control.

[Hirsute]

Bit of a sad one

Bit of a sad one

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-63373834

“A man who suffered serious injuries after a toucan crossing pole hit him on the head has died in hospital.

Northamptonshire Police said the pole struck the man after a car crashed into it”

You’d think given a death, there would be something about the driver.

 

[wtjs]

I remember in the very early

I remember in the very early days of Mercedes introducing stability control, there was a crash where for unexplained reasons the car left the road and four men died in a Mercedes

Wasn’t that connected with, or about the time of, the A-Class stability questions which may or may not have been something to do with an elk/ moose etc. up in Sweden (hazy memory)?

[IanMSpencer]

I remember in the very early

I remember in the very early days of Mercedes introducing stability control, there was a crash where for unexplained reasons the car left the road and four men died in a Mercedes. Can’t find the news story as it was back in about 1999/2000, but at the time I suspected that as they were not youths on a joy ride and it seemed to be about commuter time that they might have been showing off how stability control kept the car on the road. 

A mate of mine was working on the Chinese MG project to re-use the Rover 75 platform but they could not use the rear BMW derived suspension – I think for cost reasons rather than patents. All the engineering effort was about designing the braking system  to make the bodged redesign drivable on the very basic rear suspension. It makes me wonder how many other cars are on the road that are basically relying on stability control to keep them on the road in normal driving before we even get into problem situations.

[Hirsute]

Can’t remember who it was on

Can’t remember who it was on here but they related their mate’s view on the mini – would you drive your 80s mini like your 20s mini ? – hell no , I’d crash !

[hawkinspeter]

Here’s an unusual one: https:

Here’s an unusual one: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/biker-taken-hospital-after-driving-7738046

A biker has been taken to hospital after driving into a parked car. Emergency services were called to a street in Weston-Super-Mare this afternoon at around 3.45pm.

Avon and Somerset Police said it was called to a report of a motorcycle in collision with a parked car. The rider of the 125cc motorbike is going to hospital for assessment to injuries which are not currently believed to be life-threatening or life-changing, it added.

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

There is a small canon of jokes along these line, probably now only used by children’s entertainers.

The formula is-

feed line/ set-up: <news announcement of incident> (typically, a lorry has shed its load, or something has been stolen)
Punchline: “a police spokesman said” <describes police response, involving a pun on, or other reference to the set-up> 

Example: lorry load of hair oil / police are combing the area. 

In our little world  it might be “the Part of the Sheldon Brown site that talks about English, French and Italian bottom brackets has been hacked – cyclists don’t know which way to turn” 

The Two Ronnies featured a lot of news headlines like that:

We’ve just heard that a juggernaut of onions has shed its load all over the M1. Motorists are advised to find a hard shoulder to cry on.

West Mersea police announced tonight that they wish to interview a man wearing high heels and frilly knickers, but the Chief Constable said they must wear their normal uniforms.

A cement mixer has collided with a prison van on the Kingston bypass, motorists are told to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

[David9694]

Likely to divide opinion. You

Likely to divide opinion. You better not spread that one around. 

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