Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Picture taken in Australia?

The scene in The Detectorists where the mayor asks the club in help finding his chain came to mind when I saw the picture of him in his getup. 

To knock both cars 50meters up the road does seem like he saw it pretty much last minute. So how long is "momentary"?

Just came across this. I was impressed with this nugget of local journalism:

"I would have guessed it was coming down the hill and slid and rolled under the trees", the eyewitness said of the Volkswagen van.

(I was under the impression that eye witnesses would be able to describe what they actually saw).

He's on fire! It doesn't even take any effort though - some years back I've seen a car parked at the end of a steep street slip its handbrake and roll down to the bottom - that was three other cars and the house that it ended up in at the bottom. Nobody hurt remarkably.

Drinfinity wrote:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tank-driven-remembrance-day-service-22177251.amp

Councillor crashes a tank into the war memorial during parade. 

A fitting tribute...

mdavidford wrote:

How come everyone's overlooked this case of someone crashing a car into the most famous building in the country?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59330152

That sort of thing is bound to happen when the driver thinks the rules of the road don't apply to him and he doesn't pay enough attention to the job at hand.

With Omicron around, it shows just how dangerous an accident like this can be - clearly a super-spreader event:

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And then I go outside and there's millions of people outside and a car in my house.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Autonomous lorry crashes through M4 central reservation barrier: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/m4-traffic-live-lorry-crashes-6296986

I see your barrier attacking a lorry and raise you a gantry trying to decapitate a lorry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-59518516

Have you got a number of usernames on that site ?!

These parked cars should be required to carry lights at night! It's madness, they're totally invisible...

It sort of seems odd to "like" that so consider that a nod.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Here we see the usually sedate Audi take to the water and attempt to mate with a nearby pedestrian bridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ70RUlyuPo

Took to it like a duck to toilet - got right under the rim.

Déjà vu?

(It's not Ashley Down, it's in Lockleaze)

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David9694 wrote:

Not sure how the off-side damage occurred if it was the front near side corner that biffed the shop window. 🧑🏻‍🦳 menace strikes again. 

Maybe that damage was already there from a previous "incident"?

"Peek, who has one previous driving conviction aged 15"

Yet he has got off a second major offence only 2 years later.