Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Collisions between fast moving trains and cars tend to be 'short-lived'. It's the grief and misery thereafter that last forever. This bloke has got away about as lightly as he could have (along with 100 potential casualties on the train.) 

I hope he's learned his lesson. (Though the not guilty plea suggests otherwise.)

The centre of gravity is far too high for a lot of these big popular vehicles. And because they roll far too easily and they are so heavy, the roofs and more importantly the pillars have to be bigger, thus giving less overall visibility.

War on motorist innit!

Pretty much, because of the size they are awful for aerodynamics and accelerating that mass requires a lot of fuel.

Far worse outcomes for external vulnerable road users too.

I do understand they are great for assuaging feelings of inadequacy though...

Just to balance (as they seem unable to balance themselves) that it's big vehicles that fall over, here's a Fiat 500 on it's side. Apparently there was a driver, she did a runner though.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/20681488.overturned-car-left-aban...

Best if he is banned for life until he can prove otherwise.

Driving around in Cornwall must be an absolute nightmare, it wasn't easy for my parents driving us around on our holidays 40 odd years ago, and they never had a big car.

What it must be like now with far more of the things about and most of them being huge...

Full series of cars trapped on beaches, 22 and counting...

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/fifteen-unbelievable-fai...

hirsute wrote:

https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/27/lorry-driver-destroyed-girlfriends-home-b... "The court heard Wellington caused £475,000 worth of damage after wrecking both Ms Cassidy’s and a neighbour’s homes late on September 6 last year." This is why cyclists need insurance. "Wellington had been an HGV driver ‘for a decade or so’ and the incident might mean he could never return to the profession." He should never be allowed in charge of a child's scooter for the rest of his life.

Bet they won't show or even mention this on the Stobart loving TV program

Jogle wrote:

Car crashes into Clarkston pharmacy as police and fire crews tape off scene

Hopefully it managed to avoid hitting any of them. Convenient that they were already on the scene though.

A relief that it was an erratic motorcyclist that caused his momentary lapse of attention, not a cyclist, he probably could have got away with it otherwise.

I'm assuming that the rail operator has CCTV footage taken from the monitoring camera which makes his cock and bull story just lies. I wonder how much such defenses increase sentences on the basis of being dishonest and showing alack of remorse.