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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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Many of these incidents are slightly comical in that someone did something stupid but fortunately no-one was seriously hurt.
This one is utterly horrific. As a parent to young adults of the same age group it is my worst nightmare.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57824359
If you think that cyclists lives are of unique low value to some perpetrators of our (in)justice system then think on this. The driver had been drinking and was driving at upwards of 120mph in a 40 zone. The conditions were treacherous following rainfall. The coroner deemed that the case did not justify a record of unlawful killing, and to quote;
"But did the driving meet the test of the conduct of the driver being truly exceptionally bad? No."
A drunk driver near Shrewsbury crashed into a house at 1.50am on Monday morning. He also caused a power cut as he also took out an electricity pole. 49 homes were without power for up to 9 hours.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/bayston-hill/2...
just before 9 am, not your usual late night carousing
Car crash causes extensive damage to Bournemouth hairdressers
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19442617.car-crash-causes-extensi...
Not driven into a building but how on earth did it get as far as this ? No sign of an embankment in the photo.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57849890
From the former colonies:
https://13wham.com/news/local/five-children-hurt-after-car-crashes-into-...
Not local, not new, and doesn't quite make it into the building, but thought this one deserves an honourable mention: https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1415765405956812804
FFS, swerving to avoid a squirrel!
Hawkinspeter, anything to say about this?
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/car-crashes-in...
I don't have the news items or photos to prove it, but my sister-in-law was once woken in the small hours. Looking out of her flat's window, she could see a car on its roof with all the neighbours coming out to gawp.
The driver had lost control, bounced off several parked cars, and rolled the car, then slid downhill along her road
But, hey, y'know, not even worth a notice in the local paper...
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19448909.another-van-becomes-stuck-l...
a concerned resident has said “something must be done”
Such as look? Be aware of the height of your vehicle?
"This hiv-viz, signed bridge failed to make itself more visible "
Hungry driver sought.
or, try driving to the conditions, it's not ever driver error, is it?
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19454085.man-pregnant-woman-sent-spiral...
https://www.wsfp.co.uk/article.cfm?id=124600&headline
“The car smashed everything, the front drivers side hit my thigh and pushed me up against the wall. I ended up on the floor about six feet from where I was stood, and I just remember glass flying all around me and shredding my legs."
A follow-up here to an earlier story. A reminder, even where there's no serious injury, of the lasting effects on people this kind of thing has.
The shop is on a small stretch of historic road, which has been diverted away to make a roundabout: hard to see how this can have happened. if you want to pay a Google Street visit, it's 928 Ringwood Rd, Bournemouth, BH11 8NL
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19455950.bournemouth-hairdresser-...
Driver destroys traffic light: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/driver-destroys-traffic-light-fishponds-5681008
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57934076
Medical episode leading to six people being taken to hospital. Hit the pub wall too.
Car crash outside Marks and Spencer in Ferndown
One witness told the Daily Echo: “The impact caused a lot of damage to the car. The police and ambulance got there really quickly. They added: “If the bollards hadn’t been there, I think the car would have gone straight through the shop entrance.”
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19462417.car-crash-outside-marks-...
you're not even safe mid morning from drunks
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/19466484.cyclists-injured-driver...
Must be one of those robot cars as this one doesn't even mention a driver
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/traffic/ipswich-car-crashes-into-feli...
You have to be getting that road spectacularly wrong, to have driven into that by mistake.
Another one from Ipswich https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/traffic/st-matthews-street-ipswich-co...
A view from the inside.
https://youtu.be/EyndEYe0ekk
"Medical episode" of course.
Car crashes into home and attended by fire service on this evening's BBC2's Yorkshire Firefighters.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19480155.man-arrested-car-crashes-cl...
good job it did land on its roof.
Beat this !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-58077099
https://nypost.com/2021/08/03/car-crashes-into-kitchen-of-queens-house/
Ticks a few boxes: BMW, no license* plate, driver fled.
* hey swldxer, this in the US
I did post the original somewhere in road.cc
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19381160.spinnaker-pub-crash-colches...
1 killed a few injured after driving into the pub. Driving at 37-43 in a 30 and 'blacked out'. Banned for 2 years
Today it is https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19494846.colchester-fatal-crash-man-...
Caught again and no licence or insurance but not immedaitely jailed to protect the public.
This is an absolute beauty!
and on the BBC no less... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-58170234
Road.CC, please help us celebrate a year of cars crashing into things (and generally being in places they shouldn't) by sorting out the ordering of the posts - not even going newest first brings up the newest posts.
here's a a sad story - but for once, a driver (unlicenced, uninsured) showing some remorse after coming off the road and hitting a tree.
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/man-admits-killing-millie-green...
Another New Forest pony death. There is now some talk of average speed cameras for the principal roads crossing the Forest. According to drivers, these things are an amazing cash cow for the police, so you'd think they'd have jumped at it years ago.
No doubt we'll be told how difficult and distracting it is to drive to a 40 mph limit (arbitrary, of course, probably put there by an unelected bureaucrat), especially with all those hazards about.
Two guesses for the make of the car involved. The poor stricken animal is pictured in the article. I think we may have passed it the following day.
An awful lot of these incidents seem to be hit and run, which I find really weird because what are you going to do with a car that now looks like this? Are you going to take it to the scrapyard that features in every 1970s cop series ever made?
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/man-due-in-court-after-pony-di...
Apparently it's nice scenery along there...
This bloke is quoted half-way through the piece and talks a lot of sense, I.e. contradicts the journalistic "killer road".
Neil Greig, a road safety expert at IAM RoadSmart, says while highlighting accident blackspots is important, the issue goes deeper.
He said: "Ultimately there’s no such thing as a killer road as such, it is all about driver behaviour so it’s about the drivers themselves as opposed to the road.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/a2070-crash-victim-speaks-out-...
Get in the sea.
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