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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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Yep, pretty clear where the blame lies for this one.
It's a dilemma whether to intervene sooner to save one set of risks or later while the other is de-risked.
A Welsh Incident?
It was a bus stop !
I think he lives on:
"Malmesbury Carnival have offered a prize for the best dressed emu or for an emu-esque addition to a float in the procession.
Suggestions for a new name for Boomer, the crime-fighting emu are also welcome and can be made via the Our Malmesbury Facebook page.
'We will be be unveiling more activities and local collaborations for the community very soon including an animal podcast from the field,' said Gary.
'Janinka is a children’s event organiser and is looking forward to providing some emu related fun for the children of Malmesbury over the summer and leading up to Christmas.’"
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/20590542.malmesbury-animal-sanctua...
You may laugh (and yes, it is a f-ing stupid statement that they made) but there are definite areas that have microclimates. If I'm riding home, I go down into the village of Abbots Leigh and the temperature noticeably drops by several degrees for a hundred metres or so. I keep expecting to see the Ghostbusters investigating this Cold Spot...
Found better images, and one sign says clearance is 11'-9", and the other says 3.5 m, which is just under 11'-6".
Google says a London double decker is over 16' tall, the shortest I could find is 12'-3", and even a single decker bus is over 10' tall.
This is like me trying to drive my MINI under a lorry trailer. Oops, it accidentally didn't fit.
With those dilemmas, you just have to go with the best odds unless there's some simple way to evaluate the injury, but you wouldn't want to be getting the patient to wiggle their toes whilst they may be bleeding out.
But there's not an alternative road the bus could take, how did it get to the pier in the first place ?
It is odd. From the lamp posts visible in the photo, and comparing to Street View, it does appear to have been attempting to drive out away from the sea. Maybe the open top bus is close on height, and would just fit if driven right down the middle. In which case, it wasn't "driven accidentally under the bridge," it was just driven incompetently under the bridge.
I think the tight fit theory must be right - 99% sure you'd have to pass under the bridge to get to/from the pier and you wouldn't want to be a passenger on the top deck if so. Also did you notice the second picture on the article? is this where someone says "a lick of emulsion will sort that"? In this case, I think it would.
Also in Google street view, it briefly captures an enclosed scaffold column under the bridge: perhaps making good the last incident?
To see its flat-mate?
I met a double decker bus on my Sunday ride, out on one of our lovely tree-lined OS yellow roads, where no bus has run in decades and probably not ever a double decker. Wedding reception, was my best guess. At least the height of a bridge is known, overhanging trees, not so much.
Better pack a gilet!
Joking apart, I've reached the stuffing paper down my front stage a couple of times as it often drops a couple of degrees on my two fave routes.
Driver didn't stand a chance.
They need to contact the World Bollards Association
If only traffic lights were easier to see, this wouldn't happen.
/sarcasm
If only there were some way of knowing ahead of time that the water level can change significantly! Even better, if there were published tables of predicted times of such events.
Mum left sobbing as Range Rover swept away in Cornwall slams those who filmed 'heartbreak'
Not sure this story quite adds up - do people hate Range Rover drivers (/tourists) so much that no-one with the means to tow it was around? She does sound a bit whiney "my son had to watch..." etc - no, he didn't.
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-07-19/mum-left-sobbing-as-car-...
in a follow up that will suprise no-one: Road surface didn't cause crash that saw car flipped on its side, says council
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/road-surface-didnt-cause...
Was Simon Pegg around? It sounds like it could be a scene if they were to make Hot Fuzz II
Yeah, that'll pull out.
A sort of Highway Code?
Hahahahahahahahaha.
All terrain vehicle innit. It'll be reet.
Outrageous!
Another take here:
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/familys-desperate-battle...
Call the AA or local garage...
My friend had a land rover discovery which got stuck on a drive way and there was nothing anyone could do as the electronic parking brake was engaged and the engine would not start.
Someone did suggest I try and tow it ! Yeah 2.5T of deadweight with my normal car !
do people hate Range Rover drivers (/tourists) so much that no-one with the means to tow it was around?
Yes, but not as much as they hate BMW and Audi drivers. The police, of course, have much sympathy with people so afflicted by poverty that they can't afford an MOT
Perhaps you should have stopped him and given him a nudge about it, I'm sure he'd be appreciative.
Not worth the energy to hate.
View with contempt as a default, and avoid as potentially dangerous? Yes.
They have chosen to drive a vehicle which places the public at more risk - contempt and caution are logical and deserved reactions.
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Car crashes into sub station at Lidl car park in Verwood
#NoDriverInvolved
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