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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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Not exactly a building, but car drives into swimming pool: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cp354g1x904o. (No footage of the actual incident, just the aftermath).
The driver claims he "accidentally stepped on the gas too hard".
Drive through steak house?
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/24722755.piccadilly-circus-angus-stea...
Seems a bit harsh to arrest the driver when it reads like the car did it all on its own.
Elderly man sentenced following serious crash in Ringwood
In April 2023 a Mercedes C-Class crashed into a car before ploughing through a brick wall on Horton Road.
Malcolm Lomas, 90 was arrested and charged with causing serious injury by careless / inconsiderate driving.
A woman from Southampton was left with life-changing injuries as a result of the crash.
Lomas was also sentenced to pay £5,018 and is banned from driving until he takes another test - seriously??
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24727084.elderly-man-sentenced-fo...
Car crashes into front of home in Briggs Mead, Wymondham
A man has been arrested on suspicion of a range of offences after a car was driven into the front of a house.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24733758.car-crashes-front-home-briggs-mead...
Bus hits house as snow causes travel disruption and shuts schools across Yorkshire
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2024-11-19/travel-disruption-and-schoo...
Live: Car plunges over wall and lands on beach rocks
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-car-plunges-over-wall-973...
cyclists should wear hi viz, etc
Live: People trapped after car crashes into Torbay Hospital building
Emergency services are at the scene
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said: "We received a call at 10.47am today reporting that a vehicle had collided with a cabin at Torbay Hospital, Torquay and there were reports of people trapped. Four crews from Torquay and Paignton fire stations were dispatched.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-people-trapped-after-car-...
Man taken to hospital after vehicle crashes into pub
Police are appealing for information
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/man-taken-hospital-after-...
Car ploughs into Fair Oak home and crushes couple's cars
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24762662.car-ploughs-fair-oak-home-crus...
Person seriously injured as car drives through road closure and crashes into bridge:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/person-seriously-injured-car-drives-9765993
Thermae Bath Spa cordoned off after pillar damaged
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/live-roman-baths-cordoned-after-9766332
Video : Moment woman carrying child flees hit-and-run Hanley crash caught on CCTV
Shocking footage shows a car careering into the house before the passengers flee on foot and the driver skids off
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/family-fuming-h...
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/moment-women-ca...
Car crashes into home near Foxhall Road in Ipswich
Another out of control self-driving car
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/24786414.car-crashes-home-near-foxhal...
So close to a hole in one and they didnt find a short cut
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pg1qyqd0o
Autonomous buses in Glasgow using bridges to attack their passengers:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk3pyp7yno
Autonomous car smashes into Bristol traffic lights on Muller Rd:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-smashes-bristol-traffic-lights-9798448
If only there was a way to make traffic lights more visible
Driver crashes into property after bottomless brunch
Think the building itself was largely unscathed, with the lamppost and fence taking the brunt of the impact.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cgl9zww6dr4o
Oxford from Emily Kerr
"Anyone know anything about the THIRD major smash up on Iffley Rd in my ward in a year? "
The driver claims he "accidentally stepped on the gas too hard"
We can expect to see this regularly, along with 'I didn't see him', 'I didn't mean to do it' and 'I don't remember it at all, but I'm fine to drive in future' in accounts of drivers who trash people and buildings and get away with it.
t-boned
A close shave there.
Yeah - and one of the passengers had the gall to say that the *driver* had taken a wrong turn!
Fortunately the BBC was able to ignore that and suggest reasons why the bus might not have seen the forest of warning signs and - you know - the massive bridge.
And they note a bus did the same last year - won't someone find a way of helping these poor buses? Perhaps they could just get rid of the dangerous railways with their deceptive bridges?
Injuries in this one, thoughts with the victims - incidents like this in the past have been horrific.
"Just a little bit off the sides"
Man charged after lorry crashes onto railway line
No Salisbury people harmed.
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/national/24793992.man-charged-lo...
"Do you want me to wash it for you?"
"can you do me a blowout?"*
* Yeah ok I looked that one up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hairstyles
Did the driver also claim that he was a member of Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple?
Yet another black mark against self-driving buses - or is it rail infra? This time Kilmarnock:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20e3z7vg07o
Do you even have railway lines that far north?
That's a bit forward! But yes; pop up any time you like. Except when the buses have been at the bridges.
was it one of these?
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202411246675771?
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