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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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It was the run up to the ramp that seems difficult to explain...
When you also look at a couple of the recent stories downthread, from Ringwood and from Abingdon, a likely pattern emerges - automatic car, elderly driver and I'm further guessing, unused to automatics (daughter -"it'll be easier for you, mum") and some poor technique (e.g. use of left foot). Guessing further still convinced they're on the brake, they press even harder on the accelerator as panic sets in.
These houses sit at the end of the cul de sac - have a Google to see.
Electric cars soon, which for some reason will just HAVE to be able to accelerate to 60mph in 4-5 seconds...
...because er... it causes pollution otherwise (is this right?). And for safety - if there's a cyclist in front so you have to overtake them you need to get past as quickly as possible to avoid oncoming traffic...
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Imagine if a bicycle did this. There would be *Questions in Parliament *Calls for a new law to restrict bicycle speeds *The prosecution and jailing of the rider *Demands for a curfew on cycling
No, because the cyclist had a short-lived medical episode, so everyone agreed to just be grateful that it wasn't worse.
Emergency response after woman smashes into shop window
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24153229.emergency-response-woman...
EDIT : follow up story - he's less pleased with the authorities now:
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24195383.westover-gallery-owner-f...
Car crashes into house on Swinyard Road in Malvern
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24153735.car-crashes-house-swinyard...
doctor, doctor I think I might be an incompetent driver
Car hits Lincoln doctors' surgery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czkz7x3ne2xo
Car crashes through railings near Pizza Hut, Hereford
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24159084.car-crashes-railings-near-pi...
Another Sunday, so we have more local drivers making the news in the Shropshire Star:
And after clicking through to David9694's Hereford Times link, it seems a lorry went off the A417 near Trumpet yesterday. The article adds that "The A465 was temporarily closed between Burley Gate and Bromyard after a van overturned, while there were also problems on the A44 between Bringsty and Knightwick."
Another driver who doesn't make the cut.
https://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/24159097.number-9-bus-diverted-cr...
Fill 'er up, "car" crashes into petrol pump.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24161123.felixstowe-co-op-petrol-station-clo...
Copper in Royal Stoke after unmarked police car she was driving careers into shop
The police officer is believed to have suffered a broken wrist
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/copper-royal-st...
Last stop, everyone off...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68479784
https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/24005689.car-crashes-bungalow-sa...
Driver presses the accelerator instead of the brakes when visiting a friend.
Car crashes through telegraph pole into garden in Kempsey
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24162290.car-crashes-telegraph-pole...
Police arrest woman after crash on road in Kempsey
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24162362.police-arrest-woman-crash-...
Drink driver more than four times over legal limit crashes car into trees
The driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/drink-driver-more-four-...
Live: Car crashes into Cheltenham pharmacy and blocks road both ways
Emergency services are at the scene this morning, Wednesday, March 6.
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/live-car-cras...
Car crashes with tree on Church Street, Westhoughton
#NoDriverInvolved
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/24168180.car-crashes-tree-church-st...
Uninsured driver crashes into tree on Cambridgeshire road
The passenger was injured and taken to hospital
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/uninsured-driver-crashe...
Shock as electric vehicle crashes in Witney car park
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24169051.shock-electric-vehicle-crashe...
Driver smashes into wall in the Cotswolds and is taught a 'hard lesson'
The driver told a police officer after the crash that he was "never doing this again". He was breathalysed at the scene and arrested.
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/driver-smashe...
Public services saddos like me might enjoy this story. Bourton on the Water Parish Council want to ban certain coaches from some roads in the village, having recently lost the only coach park. I say certain coaches because they seem to want to ban coaches they don't like, but allow ones they do.
This issue comes up with bus lanes where councils basically say it's a local bus lane for local buses (nothing for you here). I'm not sure I've got to the bottom of the difference between a coach and a bus - they can be physically similar, are over a certain capacity, but a bus has fare-paying passengers works to a route and timetable whereas a coach is more like a large private hire taxi - not sure the purpose of travel counts for anything?
Not sure you can, in the eyes of the law, distinguish this in the way described in the article. Any RTO experts here able to frame a distinction?
Another approach in Dorset, permits for coaches -https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/travel/public-transport/coaches/purbeck...
'No-go zone' for tourist coaches a step closer in Cotswold village amid 'free for all parking chaos'
Bourton-on-the-Water Parish Council has voted to explore restrictions banning coaches from the village
The proposed restrictions would not include public service buses such as school, sports and social clubs transport.
Parish councillors stress they are not "anti-coaches" but that it needs to be done in the interests of the health and safety of residents and visitors
...earlier this week a coach hit one of the filling pumps at the petrol station.
"Welcome to Bourton-on-the-Water, but only if you can come in a car and have loads of money. Please don’t come if you are visiting from overseas on a coach tour. Please don't come if you’re a pensioner on a coach trip visiting for an affordable day out."
Andy Pulham, owner of Pulhams & Sons Coaches, called for some parish councillors to be removed from being party to any discussions on the issue due to their perceived bias against coaches.
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/no-go-zone-to...
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Car looking for a room for the night ? Https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24173914.car-crashes-premier-inn-foyer-bury-st-edmunds/
Rail replacement bus hits the railway bridge in Albrighton (near Wolverhampton) on the first day the service was put in place. [article]
How did the driver think they'd get a huge bus under the bridge on Station Road with just 3.2m to spare? [street view]
An electric Jaguar car's brakes failed on the M62, the vehicle was brought to a halt by being sandwiched between 2 police vehicles. [article] Apparently the same thing to Big Brother star Craig Phillips's I-Pace on New Year's Eve, says this BBC article.
Man arrested after Buckingham Palace gate crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68527261
Car accident at Sunnyside Road results in two casualties
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service responded to a report of a collision involving one car and a garden fence in Sunnyside Road yesterday afternoon.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24174734.car-accident-sunnyside-r...
BMW ploughs into home in Minster Broadway on the Isle of Sheppey
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/bmw-ploughs-into-home-with-m...
Drink-driver ploughs into front of betting shop after taking date's car
Rhys Haynes, 29, crashed the car into the shopfront in Cardiff
During his police interview he said he met someone on a dating app and went out for a drink with them but woke up in their house with no underpants on. Haynes said he could not remember what had happened and "panicked" before taking his date's car and attempting to drive home despite being intoxicated.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/drink-driver-ploughs-front...
what are the odds?
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