Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Another Sunday, so we have more local drivers making the news in the Shropshire Star:

• Saturday night fun & frolics in Oswestry, where at around 11.30pm a car collided with a wall and railings in Beatrice Street. No mention of a driver.
• 2 fire engines and paramedics were required after a saloon car crashed into a parked car and came to rest on side on Admaston Road in Telford at 4pm on Sunday.
• At the same time Shrewsbury fire crew attended a 2-car collision where one vehicle had hit a wheelie bin (presumably this object was blocking the pavement, not placed in the middle of the road).

And after clicking through to David9694's Hereford Times link, it seems a lorry went off the A417 near Trumpet yesterday. The article adds that "The A465 was temporarily closed between Burley Gate and Bromyard after a van overturned, while there were also problems on the A44 between Bringsty and Knightwick."

Another driver who doesn't make the cut.
https://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/24159097.number-9-bus-diverted-cr...

Fill 'er up, "car" crashes into petrol pump.

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24161123.felixstowe-co-op-petrol-station-clo...

Last stop, everyone off...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68479784

https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/24005689.car-crashes-bungalow-sa...

Driver presses the accelerator instead of the brakes when visiting a friend. 

Car crashes with tree on Church Street, Westhoughton

Quote:

Cllr David Wilkinson, of Westhoughton South, said: “It could have been a collision, it could have been a clip.

“You’d be amazed, I’ve seen cars that are in bits because of clips and cars these days just disintegrate.”

Quote:

Cllr Wilkinson said that the road can be difficult to navigate because of “kinks” in the surface and because of bends

#NoDriverInvolved

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/24168180.car-crashes-tree-church-st...

Shock as electric vehicle crashes in Witney car park

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24169051.shock-electric-vehicle-crashe...

Car looking for a room for the night ? Https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24173914.car-crashes-premier-inn-foyer-bury-st-edmunds/

Rail replacement bus hits the railway bridge in Albrighton (near Wolverhampton) on the first day the service was put in place. [article]

How did the driver think they'd get a huge bus under the bridge on Station Road with just 3.2m to spare? [street view]

An electric Jaguar car's brakes failed on the M62, the vehicle was brought to a halt by being sandwiched between 2 police vehicles. [article] Apparently the same thing to Big Brother star Craig Phillips's I-Pace on New Year's Eve, says this BBC article.

Central Peoria medical building struck by a car; no one injured

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Peoria police and fire are at the scene of an incident in Central Peoria where a car apparently struck a medical building.

The collision occurred Tuesday afternoon in the 5000 block of Glen Park Place which is a dead-end street with several medical buildings including an OSF PromptCare. The building that was struck housed a rehabilitation practice.

Semone Roth of the Peoria Police Department said an older woman stepped on the gas pedal instead of her car’s brake pedal, sending the vehicle into the building. She was not injured, Roth said.

The building, Roth said, suffered minor damage. No one was injured.

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Approximate location. Not sure what business it was, but it's mostly parking lots in this utterly car-dependent cul-de-sac of mostly medical facilities. I've probably been on this road three times in 25 years.

It's about 1.3 miles from my house, but the shortest possible bike ride, drive, or even walk is 2.7 miles.

You may remember some months back a motorist buried their vehicle in a block of flats in Paisley. Not to be outdone the local bus company has now buried one of their vehicles in the exact same block. 

Five people injured after bus crashes into Paisley block of flats
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/renfrewshire/breaking-bus-cra...

Lorry driver and a band causing this one

House in Barrack Street Colchester hit by lorry in crash

"Mrs Baker-Mole said the family were woken at 2.30am by a band and the house shaking." Not sure what type of band !

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24182855.house-barrack-street-colche...

Express check in

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24185888.man-hospital-bury-st-edmunds-premie...

Three single-vehicle incidents in Shropshire keeping the emergency services busy:

• 3 fire appliances were mobilised from Craven Arms, Ludlow and Wellington after a car crashed into a bollard on the A49 at around 4.30am on Sunday morning. Staff from the Highways Agency, Ambulance Service and Police were also in attendance.
• Two fire crews were called out after a car crashed into a gas main in Dawley, Telford on Sunday evening.
• Police had to close the A529 north of Market Drayton to recover a tractor trailer that had tipped off the road at around 2pm on Tuesday afternoon.

Got mixed up with the brake and accelerator...whilst driving a school bus

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24185244.witham-driver-banned-roads-...

“The defendant came around a blind left hand bend and into stationary traffic – he accelerated and kept his foot on the accelerator.

This caused a collision with a Land Rover and that caused a pile-on – the Land Rover then crashed into a Volvo, and so on.

The coach travelled off the carriageway and caught the sides of two further vehicles.

The court heard how Hills, who had one previous driving conviction in 1970, had meant to press the break (sic) pedal, but his foot slipped and he put his foot on the accelerator pedal instead.

Ms Kuther added the garden wall which Hills crashed the bus into was completely destroyed, and that the driver of the Land Rover was taken to hospital for a cut to his head.