Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

"But where was I supposed to park?"

Not enough Hi Viz or warnings?

Looks to have been a few hits on this one...

"which came about 65 years after a runaway parked police car smashed into the same shop window."
Any photos of that one ?

I can imagine the driver, 'Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight', realising he was as powerless against 'the turbid ebb and flow of human misery'(and of the Channel) as old King Cnut.

(Thanks for bringing a little poetry into our lives David.)

iandusud wrote:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leeds-57514223

I was so surprised when I saw that it was an Audi

couldn't be helped, no hi vis on the shop. I bet the occupants weren't wearing helmets either. Perhaps they should be .....if it saves one life.

Black shop fronts should be banned, too high to see. All the driver would have seen was the reflection of his own headlights and the indecision about whether to pass the oncoming car on the left or right was clearly fatal.

Although it's not uncommon to find two drivers of audis/bmws/jags/mercs facing each other on single track roads with neither prepared to yield, so maybe the driver expected the other car to get out of the way.

Good length of ban until they do life time ones. However can they do the original owner for letting him drive it and can they do the passengers for aiding and abetting?

I'd flip too if I'd done that to our car.

At least the lorry is equipped to clean up the mess !

David9694 wrote:

Just how? 
Garage door (s) on the left, car at right-angles. I wonder if the owners know each other.

Well they do now.

Well, that sounds like an excuse for me to post another pic even if it's from 2018: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-45743227

I just felt that that picture perfectly illustrated what can happen if you fail to tame or break-in your motor car.

(edit) - dammit!  I didn't see that you'd posted the story.  I'd filtered by 'newest first' and missed it.  Sorry, hawkinspeter <wrist-slap>

why do they block out the plate?

To prevent anyone jumping to the conclusion that a specific driver was at fault, when the incident wouldn't have occurred if the building hadn't been there at night or at busy periods so it must bear most of the blame.

Both stationary and fast enough to be termed "runaway" and to smash a window?

brooksby wrote:

I just felt that that picture perfectly illustrated what can happen if you fail to tame or break-in your motor car.

(edit) - dammit!  I didn't see that you'd posted the story.  I'd filtered by 'newest first' and missed it.  Sorry, hawkinspeter <wrist-slap>

Expect a sternly worded letter from my lawyers

Could be worse - at least there won't be a squirrel's head in your bed tonight !

Data protection. The same reason faces are sometimes obscured on others posted in the thread and the police even blanked out their own regs in one bot edited tweet on the daily blog . I expect as GDPR rulings on these are still up in the air, companies and organisations don't want a GDPR ruling applied to them and potential fines so hide them. 

I think the key line was “I heard lots of shouting and thought there might have been some sort of event taking place – I had expected to perhaps see some people coming down the street on bikes,” 

Do lots of bikes come down the street when the market is being setup?

David9694 wrote:

Bit harsh.  Your post had NO hi viz, how was he supposed to see it? 

Touché!

Bit of a tenuous link from a reg plate to a specific person to say it is personal data.