Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

What on earth for?  I mean - nothing's changed about his actions so why should we treat him differently now?  Telling lies - check.  One rule for me, one rule for the rest?  Check.  Illegal activity?  Check. (OK not actually fined / convicted but this isn't the first police investigation and if you think people are inciting on road.cc surely this conversation would trigger you [more here and here]).

Don't worry I won't make it a habit, but that one was too crazy not to share

chrisonatrike wrote:

What on earth for?  I mean - nothing's changed about his actions so why should we treat him differently now?  Telling lies - check.  One rule for me, one rule for the rest?  Check.  Illegal activity?  Check. (OK not actually fined / convicted but this isn't the first police investigation and if you think people are inciting on road.cc surely this conversation would trigger you [more here and here]).

That can't be right - those don't sound like the actions of a law abiding Prime Minister

Oh - I wasn't complaining - merely suggesting that it's done more than enough to deserve a leading role of its own - I make that seven of them just in the last week's worth of comments here (albeit a couple of those have the twofer of also involving a building).

Buller Buller Buller.

documentary Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise wrote:

"This is a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness," Mr Johnson said when reminded of his exploits as part of the documentary.

Lads are lads.  Back in the day.  So that's OK then.

From here - documentary here.

Why in power?  See comments on the documentary e.g. "Boris comes across as an extremely likeable chap, he shows great optimism and has a great sense of humour." and (maybe tongue in cheek) "It’s unique and fantastic how Boris manages to deflect and laugh at something that would probably end most politicians careers!"

driver charged with 16 offences, including assaulting a police officer, gets a suspended sentence  https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23209063.lee-nicholls-stole-ferrari-c...

Thinking Skills eh.
Would that be how to commit more offences but not go to jail?

David9694 wrote:

Ipswich seems quite a lively place for pranging your car or overturning it on a quick squizz through the other stories 

More flipping cars in Suffolk.

Car crashes into tree and flips over in West Suffolk village

https://www.suffolklive.com/news/suffolk-news/icklingham-car-crash-into-...

Strange place that Ipswich 

Not that much really, it just has more than its fair share of drivers who are complete tools

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"It is not known what happened to cause the cars to flip onto their roofs in such a low-speed area."

Give that journo a prize!  So dry I'm reaching for a lemon to rehydrate.

Clearly local distortions in the fabric of spacetime... 

hawkinspeter wrote:

Apparently, there's reports that the tow truck coming to rescue it is struggling to get past parked cars.

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The driver has managed not to touch the fence, the wall or the house or any cars. But it will be a bit of a challenge getting it back out again

The Post reckoned they finally got it out at about 10pm last night.  So it was stuck there for about fifteen hours.  Does the driver get overtime?

Dunno but I hope they paid extra for taking up 3 spaces !

That Wilf Johnson in the comments seems like some of the tosser trolls on here. Got very defensive when blaming *insert german manufacturer* here. 

brooksby wrote:

The Post reckoned they finally got it out at about 10pm last night.  So it was stuck there for about fifteen hours.  Does the driver get overtime?

I hope so. He can't just abandon it, so he had to hang around until it was freed. He features in a couple of the photos and seems quite calm.

New footage emerges of Tesco lorry that was stuck for 15 hours being rescued

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/new-footage-emerges-tesc...

And my favourite quote:

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The driver became stuck after he decided to turn right down Brook Hill, but he says that he could have made the corner if a car hadn't been parked right on the corner as this limited his turning arc.

which surely translates as "I thought I wouldn't be able to do it, but thought I'd try anyway cos I'm a professional driver, innit"...

You have to wonder, watching the video, what idiot thought it was a good idea to take an articulated HGV down those streets... 

hawkinspeter wrote:

I'm so tempted to go find it and tell the driver "You can't park that there!"

He shouldn't drive there (on the footpath) either. The manoeuvre may have been misjudged, but the choice to drive on the pavement was entirely deliberate and unforced. Back to driving school.

Maybe it hit a sandcastle?

Going too fast and turning too sharply.

4x4s aren't always that stable, high centre of gravity.

And that looks like quite a narrow one...

Fell off the pier and washed ashore?

hawkinspeter wrote:

Okay, this isn't car crashing into a building, but a lorry being wedged:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-traffic-live-tesco-lorry-7072849

Nine hours!

I like this description of it:

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This morning, this lorry driver left Avonmouth with a full load of groceries to be delivered to Tesco supermarkets around the Bristol area.

The driver found himself driving along Upper Cheltenham Place at around 7am, and decided to turn right down Brook Hill.

And that's where he remains.

I'm so tempted to go find it and tell the driver "You can't park that there!"

The article said lots of trucks are being driven through Montpelier to try and bypass the temporary traffic lights and road closure at the junction of Cheltenham Road and Ashley Road.  So we can probably blame the driver's satnav... (and the driver for not having an ounce of common sense - "Well, the computer said I could go this way").