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No, because there was no
No, because there was no driver. The car unaccountably…did the first thing, then it mysteriously…did the next thing and ended up in the hedge.
And anyway, he doesn’t remember anything, must have blacked out, then come to briefly, blacked out again, and then eventually decided to walk home.
He was Probably avoiding a
He was Probably avoiding a cyclist.
Thank-you for holding back.
1000 comments In Car Crashes
1000 comments In Car Crashes into Building
Thank-you to all contributors. An idle lock-down moment originally, but local newspapers continue to deliver these stories week after week.
The e-scooters show how we could regulate motor vehicles if we chose to – who can drive, and within preset limits, but we prefer to indulge drivers in their need for speed.
I tend to stick with news stories where there aren’t injuries. Perhaps the most abject I found (on an a rare, active search) was car demolishes war memorial – if somehow a cyclist had done that it would have been in the national tabloids.
A good chunk of the cases we find sound like the local drugs trade in action, arising from that oh so harmless “yeh, I smoke a bit” – the drivers, the way they disappear off, the time of incidents, the makes of cars involved.
Some crashes are the grey menace, the “I have no choice” brigade – it’s too easy to put a car in gear/ wrong gear and move it – into the end of your own garage or through a shop window. Have your “medical episode” on the bus, please.
Most are evidence of significant, endemic incompetence among drivers who can’t manage avoid fixed objects, so what chance a moving object – chancing it, over-estimating their own skill, under-estimating the situation. Yet we seem happy to live with it all, a nation of boiled frogs.
“just another day at the
“just another day at the Pleasaunce”
The delivery vehicle reversed into a brick wall outside the building on Harbord Road in Overstrand at approximately 10.30am on Monday (May 23).
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/traffic/pleasaunce-overstrand-van-crashes-into-wall-8990240
Hyundai High and dry
Hyundai High and dry
Hyundai SUV crashes into hedges near Ipswich industrial estate
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/traffic/ipswich-hyundai-crashes-into-hedge-nacton-road-8994712
#NoDriverInvolved
It would be a shock if it
It would be a shock if it didn’t collide with anything! How are these even insureable??
Innocent motorist alert: “..
Innocent motorist alert: “…I now think he was deliberately encouraging a situation where he had to be overtaken and was looking to be cut up or have someone overtake too closely.”
Mate, none of us is desperate to want to tangle unnecessarily with police bureaucracy, we just don’t have the time. But we are fed up with drivers doing the sort of thing you describe and then the wall of denial (turning sometimes into bemusement and sometimes abuse) gets erected.
So far for me: An iffy overtake, check reg when home suprise suprise no MOT, pull off some footage (having gone to expense of a camera, bother of charging it, clearing the memory card) figure out crappy police upload system, get a response, send in some more. Receive in the post a statement form to complete. Haven’t got round to it yet. All for one driver clearly out with an expired MOT.
Nul points for me on this
Nul points for me on this story, I guess.
Isle of Wight man almost crashed into wall while drink driving
“….he subtly drifted in the carriageway before inexplicably mounting a kerb and nearly crashing into a wall.”
A few days away on the Isle of Wight. Place seems to be infested with souped-up, lowered cars, drivers of which seem drawn to car parks with speed humps. Obscure fact: the IoW bus service is pretty amazing for coverage and frequency, and we’re still on the winter timetable. If you want to know what feeedom looks like pick up a Southern Vectis timetable.
https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/20151255.isle-wight-man-almost-crashed-wall-drink-driving/
Whose car, though?
Whose car, though?
Suspected driver arrested
Suspected driver arrested after crashing into Poultry Cross in Salisbury
Another great moment for cars degrading our lives and environment – Salisbury’s Butter Cross hit. Let’s see now…
Audi A.3 – check
small hours – check
Drunk – check
disqualified – check
No suitable place for strip
No suitable place for strip club in BCP area, says councillor
OK, I’m, sorry, no cars in this story at all. Just the idea of wrongly delivered items turning up and a vague memory of The Piranah Brothers (Kray twins send-up) – extract below – prompted by:
Taran Ojla, Wiggle general manager, said…“We are an established business, which provides entertainment for all to enjoy.”
‘https://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode14.htm#5
Presenter Most of the strange tales concern Dinsdale, but what about Doug? One man who met him was Luigi Vercotti.
Cut to tatty office with desk and phone. Vercotti at deak.
Vercotti Well, I had been running a successful escort agency – high class, no really, high class girls – we didn’t have any of that. That was right out. And I decided then to open a high-class night club for the gentry at Biggleswade with International cuisine, cooking, top-line acts, and not a cheap clip joint for picking up tarts, that was right out, I deny that completely, and one night Dinsdale walked in with a couple of big lads, one of whom was carrying a tactical nuclear missile. They said I’d bought one of their fruit machines and would I pay for it.
Interviewer How much did they want?
Vercotti Three quarters of a million pounds.
Ipswich seems quite a lively
Ipswich seems quite a lively place for pranging your car or overturning it on a quick squizz through the other stories
He didn’t buy an SUV lest
He didn’t buy an SUV lest the tyre extinguishers got him, so…
M20 driver with sofas ‘hanging out’ of vehicle stopped by police
I’m searching through the
I’m searching through the “rules” I have in my own mind for this thread and am flummoxed by this posting. Car crashes into…nothing at all, an empty beach, yet the idiot has still managed to overturn the wankpanzer.
I hate say it, but I find
I hate say it, but I find myself agreeing with Pier Morgan here: “The song is all about wallowing in 30 years of hurt and pain at not winning anything, how can anyone say it is arrogant.”
Gazza: “It would be like saying we can’t wave St George’s flags anymore. This woke nonsense has no place in football. It’s just a great song.”
Woke nonsense in football – fancy! So I’m back to ‘bit whiney’, rather than offensive to the competition? Without punching at opponents below the belt, isn’t some expression of friendly rivalry in order?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/18463486/footballs-coming-home-faces-world-cup-axe-offends/
My bad: Marcus Rashford I was thinking of, of course.