[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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[hawkinspeter]

Not really local, but had to

Not really local, but had to post this one: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/japans-oldest-toilet-damaged-as-driver-backed-up

The driver was an employee of the Kyoto Heritage Preservation Association making a work-related visit to Tofukuji, so the next time you’re berating yourself for a Monday morning screwup at the office, you can likely console yourself with the fact that you didn’t damage any 500-year-old historical sites.

A police spokesperson said that they have nothing to go on

[Jogle]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Perhaps a fast road too, no?

So it’s the road going fast, not the car being driven fast?

[David9694]

Perhaps a fast road too, no?

Perhaps a fast road too, no?

[David9694]

When I see a Jimmy, I always

When I see a Jimny, I always think what a fun person the driver must be. “Look at me, so out there and fun”, they seem to say. 

[hawkinspeter]

Jogle]SKODA CRASHES INTO

Jogle wrote:

[b]SKODA CRASHES INTO PARKED CAR ON RYDE’S MARLBOROUGH ROAD[/b] It’s sounds like a dangerous road [Quote]It’s unclear if the C4 was shunted into a Suzuki Jimny parked behind it. The Suzuki was involved in a similar crash back in May last year.

#NoDriverInvolved https://www.islandecho.co.uk/skoda-crashes-into-parked-car-on-rydes-marlborough-road/%5B/quote

That reminds me of this:]

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

more e-scooter pearl clutching over in leafy Bath.  If only cars were geo-fenced/ regulated to this degree!

Whatever her real motivations are, and there seems to be a dispute on the facts of which is the steepest hill out the 3 routes to the university, at least Cllr Wright identifies the principal source of the danger: 

“Widcombe Hill is a dangerous hill for e-scooter users because of mixing at the low speed of 12.5mph with larger, faster-moving motorised vehicles, in combination with steepness, parked cars…”  

If only they could accelerate out of harm!

 
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/news-opinion/baths-dangerous-new-e-scooter-7697957

Is that worse than Lansdown Lane?

[David9694]

more e-scooter pearl

more e-scooter pearl clutching over in leafy Bath.  If only cars were geo-fenced/ regulated to this degree!

Whatever her real motivations are, and there seems to be a dispute on the facts of which is the steepest hill out the 3 routes to the university, at least Cllr Wright identifies the principal source of the danger: 

“Widcombe Hill is a dangerous hill for e-scooter users because of mixing at the low speed of 12.5mph with larger, faster-moving motorised vehicles, in combination with steepness, parked cars…”  

If only they could accelerate out of harm!

 
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/news-opinion/baths-dangerous-new-e-scooter-7697957

[brooksby]

Once we get to this time of

Once we get to this time of year, I always have one in my bag.

[brooksby]

Is that a rental scooter or a

Is that a rental scooter or a <clutches pearls> illegal privately owned one?

[Jogle]

SKODA CRASHES INTO PARKED CAR
[b]SKODA CRASHES INTO PARKED CAR ON RYDE’S MARLBOROUGH ROAD[/b]

It’s sounds like a dangerous road

It’s unclear if the C4 was shunted into a Suzuki Jimny parked behind it. The Suzuki was involved in a similar crash back in May last year.

#NoDriverInvolved

https://www.islandecho.co.uk/skoda-crashes-into-parked-car-on-rydes-marlborough-road/

[IanMSpencer]

Not sure whether the rear

Not sure whether the rear door graze was the collision, but it is quite easy to unsettle a car and a shocked driver may not react very well. The grass probably provided zero braking traction, bouncing over the kerb may have trashed the front supension, so assuming our blue friend was doing the normal 35mph or so as is considered appropriate for an urban road, it probably slid at 25mph or so into the church. Churches don’t have crumplezones (nor hi-viz or helmets), so the car has to absorb all the impact.

[AlsoSomniloquism]

That is just a few hundred

That is just a few hundred yards up the road from where I work. I’m trying to work out how the car was hit so hard by a speeding driver to send it so hard into the church, yet not do any damage to the rest of the car from the pictures and video AND still manage to drive away. 

The approach angle to hit the church there is here. 

[David9694]

Speeding hit-and-run driver

Speeding hit-and-run driver sends car crashing head-on into Edgbaston’s grade II listed church

The badly damaged blue vehicle was seen mangled in the side of St George’s Church after a collision with a ‘speeding hit-and-run driver

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/speeding-hit-run-driver-sends-25270960

[David9694]

I try not to let long

I try not to let long ambulance waits play on my mind, but my back pocket standard kit now includes a silver “survival” blanket. 

[chrisonabike]

I was thinking about that a

I was thinking about that a couple of days ago; had just gone out on a quick lunchtime cycle, passed the remains of a recent two-car collision at a small “local street” mini-roundabout.  One car – fairly trashed – blocking one arm, so two police were in the middle directing traffic.  Presumably ambulance had attended.  Now “that’s their job” but I was just thinking “there is a chunk of an afternoon’s work for half a dozen or so qualified people, some disruption for local residents, someone’s paying for this…”

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