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Legally? Maybe it was offering a drive-thru?
The bridge came out of nowhere
No sense of irony in Kent (?)
There doesn't seem to be mention of drivers, so I can only assume that they're autonomous vehicles but having achieved autonomy they just flip themselves over as a protest against their own existence.
I like the photo that clearly shows the tree and lamp-post in the cycle path.
The bollards were installed in October 2020 and keep all non-essential vehicles, including shop deliveries, out between 10:30 and 16:30 - long standing rule, apparently. How ever do they survive?
The Bollards look like they're telescopic - is the one catching the white car at half mast? Central Canterbury will, I guess, be once again crowded with people in the longer term - but in a lot of places, real world shopping ain't wot it used to be.
The Google image is of the scene of the crime.
How should that be written?
Anything's a drive-thru if you drive poorly enough
literally unless the guy was attempting a drive-thru ram raid to the pub, you cant believe how poorly they must have been driving to have ended up there, and not to have failed a drug/drink driving test.
maybe there was a guest beer from
https://www.brickbrewery.co.uk/
I don't anticipate they'll be any criminal conviction for this 'accident', so is it illegal?!
Don't think it was the police but a town team chairman.
Hope the wall turns the other cheek.
I stand corrected.
The bridge doesn't pay road tax, nor does the wall - that's all you need to know.
But in the case of the wall, the fact that cars are registered, drivers licensed and as you say insured, I'm sure matters will be swiftly resolved. I mean it's not as though you'd do something like that and then drive off, is it?
Actually, if you read the report, it had nothing to do with the BMW driver. It says, "A driver was freed by firefighters after his car hit a pub in Bury St Edmunds on Friday night."
It's surprisingly possible to roll over at very low speeds if you hit another car just
rightwrong.Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljlZqd5qot4
Imagine getting you bicycle stuck on one of those. You'd be stuck for hours!
Flipping crashing cars.
Reading the news report, it seems the car just wanted its tummy rubbed...
"A spokesperson said the vehicle had rolled onto its side in the car park..."
What is the cost in terms of the emergency services' time in picking up the pieces, day after flipping day? Tempting to say "ok bored now", but the "cyclists should be made to take a test", pay insurance, pay 'road tax' brigade just keep on coming.
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/18820696.ringwood-fire-crew-summ...
It's a cheap shot to say "oh look, empty pavement, clearly the new cycle lanes haven't single-handedly reversed 5 years of High Street retail decline"
Anyway, this on Facebook - comments looked pretty horrendous.
another day, another bridge strike
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18834238.lorry-crashes-bridge-bou...
Might be happening more frequently now, but this is from 2001. The transporter hit a railway bridge just outside my house. Not sure if it made the local paper at the time.
attitudes to drinking and driving were transformed many years ago blah, blah ...
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/18843329.woman-arrested-car-foun...
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/18845469.woman-found-four-times-...
Cyclists not wearing helmets are a burden on the NHS blah, blah...
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18845745.police-ambulance-attend-...
From the BBC - Hinckley railway bridge sits top of 'most bashed' chart
Hit 25 times in one year.
Bury St Edmunds Christmas tree hit by by car and collapses
https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/bury-st-edmunds/news/car-knocks-over-chris...
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/driver-flees-after-destroyin...
Mr Gower said: "I woke up at 7.15am and I opened the curtains at 8am and all the fence was down.
"They went into next door and knocked her fence down, then they backed into my place to get out."
From the tyre tracks, Mr Gower said it looked like it had been a 4x4 vehicle.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/narrow-escape-as-car-crashes-into...
clearly a case for ambulances to have hi viz, a bell, and proper lights
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/ambulance-crashes-with-car-33...
Why won't barriers take some responsibility for their own safety and wear some hi-viz?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/a38-crash-mercedes-class-smashes-4707652
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