Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Can't help feeling it will still be someone else's fault when they interview the driver. "I was stuck behind a cyclist for at least 30 minutes so I had to go that way."

Awavey wrote:

I know it rained here in the East yesterday morning, so maybe the roads werent as grippy, but I'm lost at how a car ends up there on that corner, theres a lot of bollards there, it's not just a random lone one of them near the cycle parking.

They were just trying to get to Wetherspoons a bit faster

I think they should do an advertising campaign.  Send letters to the houses (at least all the ones that have registration e.g. a streetnumberplate) reminding them to share the road (and the off-road).

How do you even *do* that?

Not sure whether the rear door graze was the collision, but it is quite easy to unsettle a car and a shocked driver may not react very well. The grass probably provided zero braking traction, bouncing over the kerb may have trashed the front supension, so assuming our blue friend was doing the normal 35mph or so as is considered appropriate for an urban road, it probably slid at 25mph or so into the church. Churches don't have crumplezones (nor hi-viz or helmets), so the car has to absorb all the impact.

ktache wrote:

I have noticed that many drivers don't seem to adjust their speed to the conditions these days.

I agree. I think it's because modern cars are designed to automatically correct drivers mistakes and then protect them when their incompetency overwhelmes these safety systems and they crash.

David9694 wrote:

Police are advising drivers to be egg-tra careful 

Can't you come up with a better pun than that poultry effort?

Local journalism at its finest, complete with an explanation that a war memorial is built as a memorial to wars... though as drivers have difficulty understanding that roads are the only place you should be driving cars, perhaps the MEN does have a handle on the intelligence of its readership in explaining their purpose. Perhaps Manchester's mistake was not installing hi-viz and no entry signs, how is a poor motorist supposed to know?

Looking at the narrow one way street, it would be really hard to have any speed to ram through the barriers doing anything normal, so my guess is that someone either was avoiding a head-on on a one way street,(!) or was being desparately incompetent getting out of a parking place - perhaps the old "there are too many pedals in an automatic" routine. It doesn't look like there could be a clear run from the A57 to have done some bizzarre high speed swerve.

Once we get to this time of year, I always have one in my bag.

Can't remember who it was on here but they related their mate's view on the mini - would you drive your 80s mini like your 20s mini ? - hell no , I'd crash !

I only went to visit decades back, all I remember is the Stump looked enticing but we weren't allowed all the way up.  So maybe it's like:

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

I read your first line and though by "poppy rage" you meant the cars making way through the war memorials - those enemies of the motorised people.

My favourite example is still the ex-mayor and councillor rolling a tank into one a year back.  Reeves and Mortimer stuff...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tan...

I went a wife or so ago. It was struggling and I doubt many would notice its passing. To be fair, no doubt our Spalding based friend can attest, the whole region is struggling. I last went pre-Brexit and the typical worker appeared to be an immigrant with an unhealthy enthusiasm for track suits and those awful glow in the dark nylon football shirts. I was initially confused with all the shops for household cleaning until Mrs S Mk1 set me straight. I'm guessing many had settled status so I'm not sure what the Brexit effect was.

Ouch! (I think?)

Awavey wrote:

if its fields you want https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/crime/driver-arrested-after-car-crashes-in-s...

I just liked the picture of the Alpacas reaction...or was it a Llama...the police werent sure

Definitely looks like an alpaca to me. We took some alpacas for a walk on our recent holiday in Brecon courtesy of Alpaca My Boots

I remember in the very early days of Mercedes introducing stability control, there was a crash where for unexplained reasons the car left the road and four men died in a Mercedes. Can't find the news story as it was back in about 1999/2000, but at the time I suspected that as they were not youths on a joy ride and it seemed to be about commuter time that they might have been showing off how stability control kept the car on the road. 

A mate of mine was working on the Chinese MG project to re-use the Rover 75 platform but they could not use the rear BMW derived suspension - I think for cost reasons rather than patents. All the engineering effort was about designing the braking system  to make the bodged redesign drivable on the very basic rear suspension. It makes me wonder how many other cars are on the road that are basically relying on stability control to keep them on the road in normal driving before we even get into problem situations.

Alpacas are smaller and look silly, often helped along by stupid haircuts, llamas are bigger and have a face like a camel (not that this helps in the UK).

I was surprised to discover that alpacas make noises. A local was walking two large shaggy dogs and the local alpacas went mad, making a screeching noise. Apparently they did it on sight of the dogs every time.

OT:

Ah, remember "novelty records of the 1980s"?  Star Trekkin', Doctorin' the Who, that one Madness did about Judge Dredd...?

I remember in the very early days of Mercedes introducing stability control, there was a crash where for unexplained reasons the car left the road and four men died in a Mercedes

Wasn't that connected with, or about the time of, the A-Class stability questions which may or may not have been something to do with an elk/ moose etc. up in Sweden (hazy memory)?