Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Sriracha wrote:

Mungecrundle wrote:

Another of those rascally self aware cars putting its passengers at risk. Maybe this one was after a copy of the highway code? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58945203

Indeed, car crashes into library, and nobody brought to book!

"Hampshire Constabulary said the crash was not being treated as suspicious". Of course not, there's nothing unusual about driving a car through a brick wall into a public building.

I think it should be standard procedure for drivers to face a re-test and eye test if they hit anything.

Mungecrundle wrote:

Be careful if you use your car in the execution of a harmless prank as it may pull a little joke of its own and pretend to have brake failure. https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/peterborough-man-speaks... Not so much fun for the poor chap who is now quadriplegic at the age of 27, but at least his hilarious car driving chum will be back behind the wheel.

Police say the takeaway is be more careful when driving. But as no defect was found with the car, it all looks very dilberate to me. So the real lesson is (as always) you will ge a lesser sentance if you inflict life changing injuries on someone with a car, than if you use a baseball bat.

Why this was not GBH/attempted murder is beyond me. Causing injury by dangerous driving seems like a trivial conviction for deliberately driving at someone and causing such injuries.

hirsute wrote:

Came across this earlier drilling down through twitter not sure where it is

https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1437329724095803394/photo/1

Love the irony of the 20mph speed limit sign, looks like a small one too, so not the first one passed by the motorist. I'd like someone to explain to me how a car doing only 20mph can end up on its roof like that.

I think the question also has to be asked on why he decided to reverse there? The Co-op is further forward then that. Although I can't believe that before and after the Ped, that road is two way and the wider road on the ped end is one way. The whole length of that lane needs to be one direction only. 

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

I was watching this weeks UK Dashcams and came across this one at 5:30 that looked familiar.

(edit 8:22 is funny though, and 9:51 is another submission for here.). 

9:51 is in Basingstoke (Eastrop Roundabout). When I used to drive to work it was pretty common to see vans either stuck under here or reversing out having just stopped in time.

You missed out the line that it apparently blends into the wall of the shop as they are similar colours. Of course his argument falls down when the picture of the accident shows it would have been clearly seperate from the shop in the view from that angle of approach.

Cattle grid?

Unfortunately as everyone is in one at one time or another, the law seems to not want to ever class a car as a weapon in any circumstances. 

Looking at the other photo, I'd say he was going forward and the lights are brake lights.

They were late returning a book but it was shut, so they had to improvise.

This is why cyclists need insurance to make it a level playing field.

ktache wrote:

Cattle grid?

the cattle grid is a spring loaded booby trap designed to flip cars upside down?

No, but on two wheels and 100kgs of weight, a cyclist can easily slide off on a cattle grid. So imagine that carnage with twice the amount of wheels and eighteen times the weight. I expect the picture is the result. 

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

No, but on two wheels and 100kgs of weight, a cyclist can easily slide off on a cattle grid. So imagine that carnage with twice the amount of wheels and eighteen times the weight. I expect the picture is the result. 

The car is upside down and stationary on the cattle grid, this means it became upside down before reaching the cattle grid, or it would have slid off the other side and come to rest on the tarmac. (there being very little friction between a metal car roof and th metal bars of the grid) I also disagree that 20mph is fast enough to flip a car upside down.

Cattle grid is co-incidental, not cause in this case.

I do hate cattle grids, but fidn the safest way to approach them is to roll directly across without changing speed or direction when any of the wheels are on the metal. I would do the same in a car.

wycombewheeler wrote:

ktache wrote:

Cattle grid?

the cattle grid is a spring loaded booby trap designed to flip cars upside down?

Now there's an idea... 

I don't think the lorry reversed there - I think the lorry was coming at the Co-Op from the other end of Princess Victoria Street (from Sion Hill?).  Which is not a very wide road, either.

Essential problems are (1) allowing parking both sides of such a road, (2) that someone had a total Wankpanzer of an SUV while living in Clifton village and which didn't even fit in the painted parking spaces, and (3) that the Co-Op apparently can't liaise with its logistics people to ensure all deliveries are made before 11 am or after 5 pm (which are the boundaries of the pedestrianisation).

On point (3), the Tesco Metro round the corner on Regent Street is particularly bad for that too - they almost invariably have their deliveries right in the middle of what used to be called 'evening rush hour', blocking visibility and access for the nearby junction.

I'm not stating he reversed to get THERE, but why after passing he then reversed and hit the car. I was going on the one pic showing the lift metal pressed fully into the tyre which I assumed was from reversing, but on closer looking they might have scrapped the car earlier as some marks are on the back door panels as well.

Surely the lorry driver is blameless though as the stickers show the parked car suddenly turned up in it's blind spot so didn't heed the warning.

There's a scrape mark along the wheel at the height of the end of the lift guide, so it looks to me like the plastic flexed back as it scraped past, then sprung out again, leaving it embedded in the tyre.

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Surely the lorry driver is blameless though as the stickers show the parked car suddenly turned up in it's blind spot so didn't heed the warning.

It does seem as though there's one (most) essential problem missing from that list - the driver's over-inflated estimation of their own ability to navigate tight spaces, and refusal to seek assistance in doing so.

Still, at least we're maintaining rigorous standards of training for goods vehicle licences which should ensure that incidents like this are vanishingly rare.

Oh...

True I mean theres a parallel scuff mark all the way from the passenger door to the wheel in the papers photos, I'm just amazed the lorry driver who must have been aware something was amiss carried on, or what was in front of the truck to mean theyve shifted position slightly across to the left,as most of the truck made it through, but there you go clear demonstration of never park at an angle outside the lines on narrow roads.

And are we just politely ignoring that ridiculous sign on the back of the truck ?

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

I'm not stating he reversed to get THERE, but why after passing he then reversed and hit the car.

Sorry - misunderstood.

Don't worry, it seemed he hadn't reversed but just collided earlier then I thought and kept on going. 

From the linked article:

One bridge was hit by vehicles 25 times last year, official figures show. The 15ft-high bridge spanning Watling Street in Hinckley, Leicestershire, carries passenger and freight trains between Leicester and Birmingham. Another bridge on Bromford Road, next to Sandwell & Dudley railway station in the West Midlands, was hit 24 times.

Leaving aside what it tells about the competence supposedly ensured by a regime of training and testing professional drivers .... I'd have to wonder why the bridge owners didn't just resign themselves after the 20th bridge strike and construct sacrificial gantries at either end, with trembler alarms, and a large bucket of poo to drop onto the cab of any lorry driver running into it. It's got to be cheaper than fixing the bridge again every time.

Surely he should also be done for child abuse as he had his kids in the car when he did it and that must have been traumatising for them. 

David9694 wrote:

Update - library re-opens after 8 days. It was an Audi, if anyone is interested.

They got the number then? Presumably they found it under 9781477708101...

Banned for driving for two years?
For fuck's sake.