Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

chrisonatrike wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

This cycle rack should have made itself more visible

something, something shared responsibility for safety

Bike racks need more situational awareness...

And more helmets

Whenever there's a mass shooting in the land of the free, the first thing that tends to be claimed is that it is not terror related. It is wrong. The only point of a mass shooting is to instil terror.

No Sheffield stands were hurt in this one.

hawkinspeter wrote:

It's about time they just pulled down that 'woke' bridge that's getting in the way of hard-working, put-upon drivers. I bet it wears lycra in its spare time and joins Greta Thunberg's protests.

I wish I was a bridge, able to damage the cars of terrible drivers then be fully repaired afterwards. Or maybe more like this guy.
 

David9694 wrote:

Not so lucky this time 

Fowey town centre blocked after lorry gets stuck between buildings

Not again...

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/fowey-town-centre-blocke...

"The lorry became stuck in Fowey around 12:40pm and has baffled onlookers ever since."

Who would be baffled? The lorry is too wide, and it's stuck. It's obvious that it didn't teleport there or fall from the sky.

If it was on the roof of a building, or upside-down, that might be baffling.

andystow wrote:

"The lorry became stuck in Fowey around 12:40pm and has baffled onlookers ever since."

Who would be baffled? The lorry is too wide, and it's stuck. It's obvious that it didn't teleport there or fall from the sky.

You're clearly not a lawyer!  Luckily we have more logical types in the UK.  That's why there are vanishingly few prosecutions for driving on the pavement (actually it's also because the police are officially "not bothered").  The fact that your vehicle is there proves nothing.  A crane could have lifted it there, or a gust of wind...

David9694 wrote:

Also, check this out - seems to be in its infancy at the moment:

https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/cycling-10-eye-catching-images-show-how-s...

 

That's great. Here's the M6 at Spaghetti Junction

I remember with great fondness my rides around brums myriad canals, quite a few link up below spaghetti junction. Giant concrete pillars are the only thing to remind you of the hurriedness and congestion above, whilst below was calmness and green.

Foot and mouth put a stop to my excursions, riding as far as I could, and either riding back or catching the train.

David9694 wrote:

challenge accepted 

Also, check this out - seems to be in its infancy at the moment:

https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/cycling-10-eye-catching-images-show-how-s...

 

Awesome! Will maybe give it a try on something tricky - like somewhere in the Royle Borro of Ken and Chelsey - to see if it breaks down and gives up.

chrisonatrike wrote:

David9694 wrote:

challenge accepted 

Also, check this out - seems to be in its infancy at the moment:

https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/cycling-10-eye-catching-images-show-how-s...

 

Awesome! Will maybe give it a try on something tricky - like somewhere in the Royle Borro of Ken and Chelsey - to see if it breaks down and gives up.

Oh, I did that one and forgot to post it. Also, I didn't want the normal, hard-working, taxpayers to confuse it with an actual plan and think that the cycling lobby had won

David9694 wrote:

I expect it supports Jeremy Corbyn (if he walks across it) and is vegan. 

Probably not vegan

https://veganfoundry.com/is-cement-vegan/

hawkinspeter wrote:

Probably not vegan

https://veganfoundry.com/is-cement-vegan/

Wasn't that Mike Graham saying you can grow concrete though? So it might be made of vegetable products?

essexian wrote:

On a less ranty note, I do love one of the comments below the piece: "" It became apparent he was under the influence of alcohol. Officers could smell alcohol on his breath and he had been using his indicators".... School boy error that for any BMW driver. I am surprised he knew where they were.... it took me years to find them on my car!

Well I never - I always thought they were merely decorative on BMWs and Audis

You are warned when you collect a new BMW not to use them as it confuses other drivers. I tend to indicate left when I am turning right just for a laugh as it double confuses the poor people who can't afford German cars. 

I thought Audi and BMW drivers could drive hands free as they are able to steer with the dick on their forehead?

There is a high level of depression at the BMW factories, with the staff that fit indicators. They know their job is utterly pointless. Even replacement robots have spontaneously blown fuses. 

"A four year ban"
This seems to me to be a reasonable punishment! I am mortified to find myself failing to condemn the magistrates

David9694 wrote:

Cannabis-filled van crashes into Chingford house with man inside

An occupant in his early 60s was treated for shoc

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/cannabis-filled-van-crashes-c...

So apparently vans can't drive [themselves] competently on THC either!

David9694 wrote:

Driver ‘denies speeding’ despite destroying car in roundabout wall crash

https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/driver-denies-speeding-roundabout-wall-c...

"denies speeding"!??!!?? 

Why are people waiting at a bus stop "pedestrians"? Were they walking around to stay warm?