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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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I wish they would take a similar interest in all the cars happily displaying deliberately obscured number plates. I see a few every day, and my journey is seldom more than 5 miles. Some are so emboldened by the lack of police interest that they have ditched the front plate together, for a sleek stealth profile.
Didn't realise the bridge fee has such a wide net
'crews used small tolls and an electric saw'.
Was there any response from Mr Sexty?
"Photographs from the scene show a huge hole in the front of the building, surrounded by rumble."
Apparently you could hear the crash for hours.
Well if you're not restricting it to houses then we're gonna have a field day!
Two self-driving cars left the road last weekend, according to the local rag:
"a car rolled onto its side in the early hours of the morning, but the driver was nowhere to be found."
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/telford/newport/2020/12/0...
"A woman was taken to hospital after the car she was in rolled into a ditch late at night near Market Drayton."
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/north-shropshire/market-d...
I hope it had a bell, insurance and was it licenced?
Six months is too low for that extended drive of beyond reckless. Lucky he didn't kill people.
2 year ban is a joke.
"While our beautiful pub is looking significantly worse for wear, we have been very lucky; nobody was hurt in the incident, and everyone got out safely."
Probably not the only one, eh?
They showed the carnage caused by the "accident" on South Today, I think it was to show the public the actual 4 dead ponies, very rare that, maybe the motorists might slow down a bit, or really look where they are going.
Don't worry though, the good poeple of the New Forest will be blaming cyclists for all of their ills in a bit...
No hi viz, no lights: asking for it.
Of course it's a problem with the road, fool.
Looks like someone is videoing their CCTV camera (there's a timestamp and "outside" shown at the top), so they most likely had the incident recorded and didn't know how to get the video from their CCTV onto Twitter so just used their phone.
...or the driver was a door-to-door salesman
Clearly a typo - should read small trolls and an electric saw.
properly trained, they're very good at effecting rescues in confined spaces: the fire brigade employ about a dozen of them. No reports of anyone being eaten for supper since 2016.
Mr Sexty did reply to an email, but it still seems like a mess to me.
No excuse but it was incredibly foggy over the Forest last night, I couldn't drive safely much over 20mph. Looking at the damage to the Disco he must have been doing more than 40. Bet he's local too.
Out on the knocker, as I think saying has it. A doorstep delivery for sure!
Police are maintaining a low key presence in the area.
I'm sure the police have got a handle on it. I wonder if the driver will find himself in the slammer?
I'm surprised they spoke to the driver, rather than just issuing a letter.
Nah, a decent lawyer will be able to argue that he was framed.
Another car with agency, according to the report.
Did you manage to catch the squirrel story HP?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-familys-frantic-...
A good candidate for what happened next.
That looks rather a fast car for an 18 year old to drive.
There are lots of deleted comments, some proper nastiness below the line in Bolton.
But this one was a beauty-
No description of the driver as he had a Baklava covering his face
Hardly impressive, even the austin metro could do 62mph. Performance cars all just so pointless, just about every car on the road is limited by driver consience (sadly) not car performance.
Shocking.
Very rare to have the idiot fiming their own stupidity.
here it is being removed
https://twitter.com/SFRS_cjackson/status/1340646834377793541
McLaren driver aquaplanes and crashes on A31 in Hampshire
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18973752.car-aquaplanes-crashes-tree-a3...
Here's the full picture from the Echo website - what on Earth is all that gunge on the windscreen, where's it from? The ponies were in the road hoovering up the salt, so is it from the collision?
"Hampshire county councillor David Harrison, a member of the National Park Authority, listed several measures that have already been implemented in a bid to reduce the number of animal accidents in the district.
He added: “I think if there was an easy answer to stopping incidents like this, steps would have already been taken.” - average speed cameras, Cllr Harrison?"
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