[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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[wtjs]

I would be prepared to accept

I would be prepared to accept a row of really heavy duty steel piles, most of which would be obscured from the house by the fence, if I lived there- at the expense of the nutter driver’s insurance company, and installed at the time of the repairs.

[Hirsute]

“It’s always been a fast road

“It’s always been a fast road”

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

[stonojnr]

The Beeb have some more
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

[David9694]

Unlike the homeowner.

Unlike the homeowner.

[AlsoSomniloquism]

The Junction is only as

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. 

[AlsoSomniloquism]

Although you have to speed up

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

[Hirsute]

I was up in Holt in the
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.

[ktache]

Well obviously they are

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

[stonojnr]

Is that checkerboard sign on
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-crash-8018354

[OnYerBike]

“He called for action, saying

“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.

[AlsoSomniloquism]

Well I blame the home owner.

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

[David9694]

Nothing is ever a driver’s

Nothing is ever a driver’s fault, cars will be cars.  For once, the good grace of an apology In person. At what point does this house become de facto uninhabitable and uninsureable? 

[stonojnr]

Two for the price of one from
Two for the price of one from Norfolk https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/car-crashes-into-house-holt-norwich-road-8016046

The home owners response intruiged me, blaming the road,signage & lighting as the cause, rather than the actual motorists.

[AlsoSomniloquism]

And most of those are done by

And most of those are done by the owners of the vehicles. I’m not stating that is the sole reason or that it is a consistent process across the board. Just that people are more inclined now to mitigate against what could be concieved as a privacy breach so they decide to hide faces and reg plates and other identifiers when posting them publically.

[David9694]

Off topic much?

Off topic much?

So you’ve got the satisfaction of getting 9 clinicians’/ middle managers’ names – did that help your cause any?  Agree: the bloom is off the boom with the IC. 

You have to work pretty hard to earn the “Vexatious” badge: have you?  It is different to “annoying”, and “persistent”, and “on to something”. 

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