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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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- HollisJ 17 min 46 sec ago
Oh don't get me wrong - it's for sure warmer and wetter if we're looking back over the last hundred or more years....
- Steve K 24 min 2 sec ago
For anyone in the Sheffield area https://bsky.app/profile/ppushbike.bsky.social/post/3lgnamkc4t226
- BalladOfStruth 28 min 2 sec ago
I bet this is a case of “something was supposed to be there, but never actually materialised”, which is apparently more common than I realised....
- eburtthebike 57 min 1 sec ago
Yet more pro-cycling news for the media to ignore! I'm especially looking forward to the 24/7 blackout imposed by the BBC.
- Daveyraveygravey 1 hour 2 min ago
I ride quite a bit in Italy too, and the drivers are every bit as dangerous as in the UK. Close passing is terrible....
- chrisonabike 1 hour 6 min ago
Wow! I find it hard to understand sometimes - but I guess I'm woke now....
- mdavidford 1 hour 36 min ago
That's probably the point - they don't want you to have the standard colour scheme - they want you to pay for a custom one.
- Sriracha 1 hour 40 min ago
There's no way this design is lighter than a conventional design of equivalent strength.
- Huw Watkins 2 hours 9 min ago
Your criticism is specious. Road.cc has never purported to be a site that covers racing of any sort in any detail. They leave it to other sites....
- Surreyrider 2 hours 12 min ago
If you're buying a commuter bike, then there is nothing wrong with them. However, the Synapse was a World Tour race winning bike not so long ago...
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Car drives into auctioneers
https://www.richmondshiretoday.co.uk/car-crashes-into-reception-at-leybu...
White van wrecked after trying to drive through archway in Caernarfon. Idiot.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/van-wrecked-after-gett...
A whole slew of them here though no pictures of the actual vehicles https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/traffic/residents-call-for-council-action-on...
but its interesting the residents blame the road, not the idiots driving the vehicles into their walls consistently, and Id agree with the council its not their job to stop people driving badly its the police.
Man's Attempt At De-Icing Hack Backfires As Car Crashes Into House
https://www.ladbible.com/news/bloke-smashes-into-neighbours-garage-20220204
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19903675.quad-bike-rider-hospital-cras...
No photos
North-east man lost at sea. 1500 perish in Titanic disaster*
The HC article concludes "People living locally are advised to walk or cycle around the city wherever possible."
* a myth: usually attributed to the Aberdeen Journal
You know that GP appointment you've been waiting ages for...
https://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/car-crashes-into-doctors-surgery-...
Luckily a bystander was there with his trusty 2008 camera phone ...
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/asda-blantyre-supermark...
Well that was a wild ride: https://apnews.com/article/oddities-arrests-florida-west-palm-beach-fb19a5d3699310da848d92693ce2da43
Where did you get that hat? Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a nobby one, and just the proper style?
I should like to have one Just the same as that!
Where'er I go, they shout "Hello! Where did you get that hat?"
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/incredible-pictures-van-driver-accidentally-6625158
What does "Road Closed" actually mean though?
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2022/02/07/overbrook-creedmore-avenue-hole/
Drug driving arrest as woman crashes into central reservation of motorway
Well that's quite obvious, it's the central reservation being in the middle of the road and not wearing high vis!
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/drug-driving-arrest-...
Coach driver crashes bus into a house on the B-road between Whitchurch and Wem.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/north-shropshire/whitchur...
A local company too, so no excuse like "I didn't know the road was so twisty". Can't believe how often this stuff happens.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-60326638
But cyclists...
Live updates as car crashes into house in Stapleford
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/live-updates-car-cra...
That'll teach 'em not to deliver those Christmas cards on time.
What was the fourth offence ?
"But officers, you've got the car, it's got a registered keeper, why are you saying you're making enquiries to find the owner? Drivers are always telling us cyclists that we should be registered like them so this doesn't happen. Understandably, the people in the car walked off, I imagine they were two brothers rushing to see their sick mother in hospital, as all drivers are.
Have we been mis-informed?"
Another one here for the cars being a PITA collection: 'Idiot’ driver causes mass evacuation of Odeon at BH2
‘AN IDIOT’ driver doing a ‘burnout’ in the underground car park of Bournemouth's central leisure complex saw cinema-goers evacuated from the Odeon on Tuesday night.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19842895.idiot-driver-causes-mass...
Yes. Owners gutted as they cannot now sit in a solution of each other's poo until repairs are complete.
Found another while visiting Norfolk:
Drunk student crashed [car] into hotel wall after drinking tequilas
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/norwich-student-admits-drink-driving-...
it's the fault of the road markings if you dip into the comments
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19867704.car-crashes-house-near-p...
It seems to me that it's getting harder to rest easy in your bed if you live near a road and any sort of hazard, like a bend or a junction.
What's worse is that 3 months ago, the same thief nicked all their indicators, but no-one's noticed yet.
I naturally expected it to be a BMW or Audi, but I feel semi-vindicated by a NOxWagen
I got addicted to auctions with all the suspense and excitement after going once...
going twice...
But were any horses hurt? I gather that's the important matter, to all the good folk of the New Forest...
When did turning the heater on become a 'de-icing hack'?
Some freshly-minted wall repairs in the Google Street view watermarked from 2020. What a blight cars are on people's lives.
Not sure how much fish-eye there is here, but I don't see how drivers at 30 mph max can be expected to negotiate this safely while looking out for cyclists, the sun in theirs eyes, speed bumps ( article comment), and trying to ring Denny.
Glad to see the centuries-old protected castle lane still working well. Build it and they will come to no good!
White van man working as hard as ever to keep a roof over his head.
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A car drove past a road closed sign and fell into a hole in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood.
Photos show the rear end of a car sticking out of a hole on Merrick Avenue.
Crews on scene said the road was closed while they were repairing it, but a driver went around the sign and the traffic cones and kept driving into the hole.
That's it, 4 1/2 lines - concise much? Shouldn't there at least be a quote from Bob Strongweather the local fire chief, and a passer-by with a Bill Bryson made-up name like Nancy Stronkwaller?
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