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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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See my comment on the live blog...I think it's pretty clear who the real baddie is.
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No driver involved.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23199263.car-crashes-traffic-ligh...
A couple had a remarkable narrow escape after a lorry careered off the A12 and smashed into their bungalow.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23200380.lorry-a12-swerves-off-road-...
Car goes amok in car park. Doesn't it know there is an ambulance strike on?
Unfortunately including Air Ambulance.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/sutton-coldfield-inc...
Not in the report but on local app, the driver and her daughter were run over by their own car which carried on and hit another elderly lady and snapped her leg.
A woman has been taken to hospital following a collision with a lamppost and wall.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23208608.woman-taken-hospital-collis...
I did put his one in earlier in the year but a new twist
"He then caused hours of delays as the lorry remained wedged overnight on July 13 and until the following morning.
Lihu admitted to magistrates that he was banned from driving at the time and was not insured to be driving the vehicle."
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23207935.driver-blocked-colchesters-...
Pathetic outcome.
Car crashed into house on Desborough Road, Eastleigh
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23208480.car-crashed-house-desborough-r...
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23209449.shock-car-crashed-house-desbor...
Southampton area again; the oven cleaner man was surprised at how quickly it happened.
A390 at Grampound blocked as car crashes into house and corner of building collapses
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/a390-grampound-blocked-c...
On the first day of Christmas, a car crashed into this : A public toilet in Wellington
https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/23212019.car-crashes-longfo...
On second day of Christmas, a car crashed into this: Four Seasons Supermarket
https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/live-a21-hastings-updates-...
On the third day of Christmas, a car crashed into this - a children's nursery in West Yorkshire
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/car-crashed-nursery-minutes-a... (Wales on line, that well-known Yorkshire news outlet)
On the fourth day of Christmas, a car crashed into this -- a car dealership in Loughborough
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-63862899
On the fifth day of Christmas, a car crashed into this - Scottish funeral director's (pic)
https://planetradio.co.uk/borders/local/news/jedburgh-funeral-directors-...
Plus an unexpected present from a driver to Hungerford shoppers:
https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/hungerford-high...
Also ran:
https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/20140562.car-crashes-school-...
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/neighbours-wanted-qu...
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/5124865...
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23178285.stockton-two-teens-arres...
https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/20621463.two-injured-car-crashes-...
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/sunderland-man-hosp...
https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/18042909.helensburgh-home-o...
https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/crime/20677416.teenager-17-a...
Never Mind the Bollards: USA
How many times a day do cars crash into buildings?
"In any case, the fact that Reiter’s homespun approach has delivered the nation’s pre-eminent statistic on cars hitting buildings is a symbol of how the externalities of a car-dependent society go unseen and unstudied.
“We’re losing hundreds of people a year in what everything thinks of as a series of one-off unfortunate events,” Reiter said, “and the reality is, it’s organized mayhem”
For the past eight years, Reiter has spent 12 hours a week logging entries into his crash database. Articles and TV clips. Academic research. Fire and police reports. Litigation. Twelve Google Alerts, seven alerts on other online services, a couple dozen sleuths who send him a note every time someone’s driven their car into the supermarket again.
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/car-crash-buildings-how-many.html
The variety of buildings cars have crashed into in 2022
a bank (pic)
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23168141.car-crashes-lloyds-bank-vi...
a carpet shop
https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/23119907.car-crash-leaves-la...
a closed-down Argos Store
https://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/23166996.shropshire-car-...
a hospital
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/chaos-as-car-crashes-into-hos...
chippy
https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/crewe-chippy-...
boxing gym
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/23113393.hereford-boxing-gym-left-dam...
A Nightclub
https://thetab.com/uk/lancaster/2022/10/20/car-crashes-into-vibe-nightcl...
a cafe
https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/seaford-car-crash-cafe-liv...
Car finds its way on to tram tracks...all by itself:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/car...
Car smashes into post in collision 'so loud it sounded like fireworks'
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/car-smashes-post-collisi...
Residents blame flooding...
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23226103.car-crash-living-room-sparks-calls...
Well, bounce me up and down and call me Skippy!
"Driver hospitalised after crashing into Nailsea Co-Op"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-64172430
This is a comment about the wording of the reporting, not the circumstances or standard of driving. Wishing the driver and the other injured people a full and swift recovery.
'It was an accident waiting to happen': Residents in disbelief as building collapses after BMW smash
"I’m amazed that nobody was seriously injured"
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/it-...
car hits lollipop
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23251922.car-nearly-hits-bursledon-loll...
In need of some refurbishment...
Man charged after car crashes into estate agents' window
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/man-charged-a...
Pictures from East Grinstead car crash into high street shop
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23226611.pictures-east-grinstead-car-cra...
This one in Hungerford before Christmas could have been horrific... video from 12 secs for the terminally impatient.
https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/seconds-from-death-full-horror-of-to...
Hampshire police twitter One very lucky driver. After an aborted overtake, the driver took to the verge driving through a bus shelter.
How lucky?
This lucky.
The incident, which happened on Sunday, saw a police car collide with another vehicle, which in turn caused severe damage to his brick wall.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23259040.high-garrett-police-car-cra...
Driver crashes car down embankment and obstructs train tracks in Carbis Bay
The driver of the vehicle did not stick around following the incident
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/driver-crashes-car-down-embankment-805...
'A city centre junction has been slammed for having crashes 'every week'' - it's all the junction's fault, of course:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/life-greater-manchester-junction-cars-25963134
A car crashed into a cafe in Colwyn Bay, causing "extensive damage" shortly before 9pm on Thursday night and drove off. The cafe owners posted on FB that "a car reversed through the door and adjoining window of the café causing extensive damage to the framework and contents and they then proceeded to drive away." And they didn't even leave a tip! Scandalous. Street View suggests it's a pedestrianised area.
On Saturday morning a lorry toppled over at a roundabout near Pwllheli, Gwynedd.
On Saturday evening a car overturned on Church Lane outside the village of Wem in Shropshire. The driver did a runner.
Last Monday afternoon a white Porsche hit a bridge on a slip road outside Chester. The driver was said to have suffered life-threatening injuries.
Audi driver Instagrammer now at the piss-taking stage.
this isn't going to last, is it? Does his mother know he is out?
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/peter-andres-son-junior-su...
Car crashes into people
Car ploughs into pedestrians in Barnstaple after failing to stop for police
A number of those hit by the vehicle sustained injuries and officers are now appealing for witnesses
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/car-ploughs-pedestrians-barnst...
Filed as in no further action? But, but registration plates...
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23282050.bursledon-investigation-lollip...
Sopley home owner Penny Coleman lives in fear of fatal crash after cars hit her cottage
She told the A&T: “I literally spend every day worrying about when the next crash will be. It is such a horrible feeling.
“When the last one happened I was actually looking out of my kitchen window when I saw this car coming straight at the house.
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/i-live-in-fear-driver-will-die...
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