Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

I think that photographer was more interested in the police bike

"No offences were identified".

David9694 wrote:

Car overturns in Manor Road, Bournemouth

"Crews from Springbourne and Westbourne were mobilised and on arrival found a single vehicle which had rolled onto it’s side after the driver had a medical episode."

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20120035.car-overturns-manor-road...

"After a medical episode"?  Who was the driver - Bruce Banner??

Apparently, there's reports that the tow truck coming to rescue it is struggling to get past parked cars.

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The driver has managed not to touch the fence, the wall or the house or any cars. But it will be a bit of a challenge getting it back out again

Heard the demolition noise of this whilst getting the kids ready for school. No evidence of any attempt at braking before or during crash, the driver was just surfing the crushed car until the church wall stopped him. Was out of the cab and on his phone immediately afterwards. 

hirsute wrote:

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/20145139.man-injured-driver-hits-cyclis...

 

Interesting umm sign on the bonnet !

Is it just me or do they seem more concerned about the post being hit than the cyclist?

Because "you can't carry a sofa on a bike!" (apologies - that's two bikes, so here's a bonus bed and washing machine).

hirsute wrote:

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/20154087.vehicle-crashes-inside-colc...

How on earth did they manage that??

Police are looking for this suspect.

#cyclelikeyoudrive

This cyclelikeyoudrive is not going away soon...

As a fellow MINI convertible owner, I shared this one on our FB page.

David9694 wrote:

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.

I was hoping that you would have the honour of the thousandth post.

I had been looking for a spectacular picture, but I don't think I could beat a Mini War Memorial Demolition.

I've got to check my bike cameras as on the way back from work I went past car which was sticking out into the road at a strange angle. When I got to the front of it I found that a large metal bollard had come out of nowhere and attacked it. Or at least I assume that's how you destroy the front end of a car on a bollard.

rode that route at the weekend as it happened, the driver must have exited the roundabout,and just driven straightacross 3 lanes of road, mounted the kerb, and over the shared cycle to path to end up in the hedge by Frankie & Bennys

Probably a wee free car - enraged by the council-installed pagan stone circle.

(What is it with those?  Edinburgh's slapped them all over the estates.  If garden-centre ornaments set in a corner of clarty wasteland could re-racinate the celts the country would have seceded by now and probably burnt Londinuim too.)

Off road police bike, look at those tyres.

hirsute wrote:

"No offences were identified".

How is that possible? Surely, a parking ticket would be appropriate if nothing else.

Lucky that no-one was "working" in the garden with lots of colleagues.

Betwaddled? Ye've ‘ad a gurt fossick but we'll 'ave ye out dreckly.

brooksby wrote:

How on earth did they manage that??

Support pillar was not wearing hi-vis.