Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Awavey wrote:

that car was speeding though right ? because that looked very fast (with headlights on too it seems) for that kind of road.

I wonder how the insurance worked it out, or what the police did with the driver.

Yes - it's a bit tricky with the camera angle but I certainly get the impression that the car was going far too fast, and had it been travelling within the speed limit (30mph as far as I can tell) I think the collision would have been avoided or at least far less serious.

The comments made by local residents/politicians would also appear to suggest they see the main problem as speeding along that road.

Don't know how the police/insurance would have worked it out - I think the speed was a major contributory factor, but even so, the other driver pulled out when it was not safe to do so, and they should have judged the speed of the oncoming vehicle and waited, rather than assuming the car was travelling at a sensible/lawful speed.

Some of the comments

"As a pedestrian your not soposed to enter the zebra crosing until both sides have stopped and can see you crossing the lollipop lady is causing criminal damage. The role is obsolete, its the councils job to put a crossing with lights their"

Doesn't even understand the basic HC.

"you MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing"

I make that 45-50mph down Hungerford High Street. 30 limit.

Response of Highways Authority:

Town councillor Jerry Keates said lorries used the High Street as a "rat run" between other towns and said residents were "eternally frustrated" by a lack of action by the highways authority, West Berkshire Council.

The meeting was attended by the district council's service director for the environment Jon Winstanley, who thanked Mrs Armstrong for the footage.

But he warned expectations had to be tempered by the reality that the High Street was a trunk road and traffic must be kept flowing.

SaveTheWail wrote:

'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

Manchester is one of the few places in the country that uses green right turn filters as the first phase after red, then followed by full green, so there is no indication to the right turning traffic when oncoming traffic is going to start. (Combine blindly following car in front turning right with enthusiastic getaway on green). Presumably here they've changed the sequencing to the normal UK style of full green followed by a period of filter with oncoming traffic held by a red. 

It was like that in the 70s, and I was amazed it was like that still when I returned about 30 years later.

What do you reckon the insurance premium is for a newly qualified seventeen year old driving a brand new Audi...?

hirsute wrote:

Some of the comments

"As a pedestrian your not soposed to enter the zebra crosing until both sides have stopped and can see you crossing the lollipop lady is causing criminal damage. The role is obsolete, its the councils job to put a crossing with lights their"

Doesn't even understand the basic HC.

"you MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing"

So, if you don't step onto the crossing until both sides are clear and drivers won't stop unless there's someone starting to cross, does that mean that pedestrians are just stuck there forever?

This seems to be my theme ATM but I think almost every infra / legal story here could be ended with the following and have the majority of the population nodding (possibly sadly):

Quote:

expectations have to be tempered by the reality that ... traffic must be kept flowing.

"As a pedestrian your not soposed to enter the zebra crosing until both sides have stopped and can see you crossing the lollipop lady is causing criminal damage. The role is obsolete, its the councils job to put a crossing with lights their"

Is this a parody of a dimwit completing the bad-spelling bingo, or a real dimwit...?

the guy who owned the cctv camera said the same thing about a crossing with lights, I dont understand why they think that will be treated any differently, the driver in that car wasnt stopping regardless.

and wasnt there a story last year where a lollipop person (cant remember if it was man or a woman) got sacked because they used a bodycam to record this kind of stuff ? and the parents complained it was invading the childrens privacy or some such nonsense, so the council declared it wasnt part of the official equipment so they couldnt use it anymore.