Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

mdavidford wrote:

Jogle wrote:

Residents heard big bang as car crashes

Cosmic background radiation caused the collision?

Perhaps it's the beginning of a new universe of self-driving cars

A few more in that issue !

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/resident-redditch-left-ho...

and

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/watch-dramatic-momen...

Lucky it was not a ksi for a pedestrian.

I too pondered that possibility but the report definitely cited the smaller road and the street view grab was also from there.

You wonder why she is quiet? She voted against ending Fire/Rehire practices so wasn't accepted too well at one of the early demos after the P&O debacle. 

But, we were told it was over.

And people were just bored of it...

Really not a good time to be hit by a motor vehicle (is there ever...)

Or have a heart attack. (Same)

David9694 wrote:

totally grinds my gears that we have to task ambulance crews to pick the pieces up after idiots like this have broken their toys. 

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Bigger issues as always but one irritation is that the rhetoric is exactly the opposite of the truth.  Short version: "cyclists and cycle lanes block ambulances AND waste medical resources by getting themselves injured via their dangerous recreational pasttime".  More nuanced version: if you can get enough infra in to get genuine mass cycling that can actually remove motor traffic (cycling is more space-efficient).  That will help get the ambulances through.  It may be possible for an emergency vehicle to use a footway / cycle lane to get round a blockage.  Car crashes are a major source of hospital admissions.  We've recently noticed that particulate pollution from cars is a significant source of harm.  Finally the overall sums say getting people out of cars and into active transport has significant physical and mental health benefits.

But "can't get through... cycle lanes cause congestion and pollution"... (I do appreciate there are some thoughtful local arguments about the latter - but even then it just ain't the bikes doing the emitting).

mdavidford wrote:

Jogle wrote:

Residents heard big bang as car crashes

Cosmic background radiation caused the collision?

I think may just have been a radio - or rather mobile phone - transient?

David9694 wrote:

He was on his way to work when his company car hit the bell, causing thousands of pounds of damage."

Fenton! Come back! FENTON! Oh no, he's only gone and hit the bollard!

^ This is how I picture the scene as Mr Hunt's company car makes an ill-fated bid for freedom while Mr Hunt is innocently on his way to work.

Hi vis+hi vis = Invis

David9694 wrote:

Dangerous driver crashed into garage in Teddington Close, Canterbury, while being followed by police

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/drunk-dad-ploughed-through-...

It works in GTA

David9694 wrote:

"....the elderly woman behind the wheel does not remember anything from the incident.

The driver smashed the vehicle through the store but managed to survive without suffering any injuries."

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/elderly-woman-hospitalis...

The comments BTL on that have so many attempted explanations of how it couldn't possibly be the driver's fault... 

Although I did notice this exchange:

"...didn’t see any thing as she was texting"

"How do you know?"

"Who doesn’t text and drive"

hawkinspeter wrote:

Autonomous flying car spotted in Bristol, Whiteladies Road.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/tesla-goes-flying-window-shop-6905246

I love the caption on that photo:

"The Tesla model can be seen deep inside the store. "

I do wonder how it jumped that sofa, though... 

brooksby wrote:

I love the caption on that photo:

"The Tesla model can be seen deep inside the store. "

I do wonder how it jumped that sofa, though... 

Didn't you read the title? It was flying!

I for one welcome our new flying car overlords

I did notice that the article also minimised that someone else was injured, just "not badly".

I was intending to go up Whiteladies Road last night and got to that point, and they were diverting all uphill traffic left and into that maze of single lane residential roads (because of all the cars parked either side) that I usually avoid.

I wondered what had happened: there were police and fire vehicles there and a huddled crowd of student-aged people being talked to by a policeman.

Obviously because the government have, like, totally failed to put charging points anywhere (war on the electric motorist!) you have to plug the Tesla in next to the telly.

I don't understand why you can't just get an app for charging your car if they're so good? Or buy charge from Amazon, like with credit on your phone?

chrisonatrike wrote:

Obviously because the government have, like, totally failed to put charging points anywhere (war on the electric motorist!) you have to plug the Tesla in next to the telly.

I don't understand why you can't just get an app for charging your car if they're so good? Or buy charge from Amazon, like with credit on your phone?

You can get electricity keys from newsagents - they should work fine