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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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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60806993
Two teenage girls aged 15 and 16 are being held in custody after a car reversed into a shop front.
Why are they being held responsible for the software of the autonomous vehicle?
Fumin I am this morning. But no crashes. As well as another driver bailout in prospect (5p off fuel tax - Howard will be delighted I'm sure, but like Putin, whatever you give won't be enough) it's e-scooters - step forward the Kent Police & Crime Commissioner. I assume he has similar views on the private car experiment
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/its-time-to-end-the-e-scoot...
Our old friend, the Strood metal bollard is in the news again (for some reason). Sounds to me like it continues to do a very necessary job:
"It is there to stop vehicles mounting the pavement to protect pedestrians but it has been blamed for causing several accidents, including one involving Gary's son, Jonathan. He was on his way to work when his company car hit the bell, causing thousands of pounds of damage."
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/bollard-safety-fears-after-anot...
For once, the article comments have it right.
Car crashes into traffic light on Bath Road
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/20007243.car-crashes-traffic-li...
Driver (83) escapes injury after car smashes into hair salon's window in Old Milton Road, New Milton
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/car-ploughs-into-new-milton-ha...
(photo not remotely taken on a 'phone by a driver.)
Car smashes into wall in crash near Longham
someone's shopping in the foreground...
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20017388.car-smashes-wall-crash-n...
Kent Police take action against boy racers at Tesco Extra in Gillingham
One woman, who did not want to be named, said: "You lay there at night listening to it and you worry a car is going to crash through the front of your house.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/you-worry-a-car-is-going-to-cra...
And while we're in Kent, further proof (I think) that cars.destroy.everything:
Vulnerable people in Rainham and Sittingbourne warned to stay indoors because of poor air quality
I seen this reported for a number of areas this week. Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire seem bad for particulate matter for example. Yet on this snap, rural Herefordshire has a doesn't-quite-fit-the-narrative dose, and it's also quite bad out at sea.
Anyone know more?
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/vulnerable-people-warned-to-sta...
Driver crashes into wall outside Horse and Groom pub on the B4040
This is a rarity, a headline that says that there was a driver involved
https://www.wiltshirelive.co.uk/news/driver-crashes-wall-outside-horse-6...
Who says the US don't do irony ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/tpawr5/a_tesla_crashed_int...
Autonomous flying car spotted in Bristol, Whiteladies Road.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/tesla-goes-flying-window-shop-6905246
"this will confuse drivers" being wheeled out by the RAC - no buildings harmed but some palpable fear around local authority powers and how terrible it is to be fined when innocent, and the money is "raked in."
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/drivers-face-avalanche-of-wrongly...
check this video out!
Terrified residents thought missile had hit Luton Road, Chatham, as stolen car crashed
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/it-sounded-like-a-missile-comin...
Crashed into furniture shop, well into a furniture shop
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/tesla-goes-flying-window...
Having a normal one in Kent
Car crashes into wall and bursts into flames on Prince Charles Avenue in Walderslade
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/car-bursts-into-flames-after-cr...
Twitter followers will know of the "clown" incident with Adam Bronkhorst and Cllr Vinson, Dover's Portfolio Holder for Finance, Governance, Digital and Climate Change this week.
Anyway, the council leader is getting excitable now because Dover is "sacrificed" at times like this. Sometimes, the comments column gets it right: Dover voted for Brexit.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/weve-had-enough-265085/
(no buildings harmed AFAIK, but probably some hawthorn bushes adjoining the M20)
Not stricly a news story but too good not to share.. - https://twitter.com/DeepFriedToes_/status/1510330679283834883?s=20&t=GlI...
one car a week impaled on the Canterbury bollards:
Canterbury's anti-terror bollards spring 79 cars in 16 months since they were installed
“The town is already congested enough without people queuing up the road to get through the bollards.” Or 'the town is too busy to regulate the traffic.'
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/79-vehicles-sprung-by-anti-...
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/20053118.van-stuck-manningtree-railw...
mumble, mumble hi viz, mumble, mumble
Apparently the reporters couldn't be bothered to get a photo.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/man-arrested-after-c...
Man arrested after car ploughs into semi-detached house in Shard End
McDonalds Camberley
https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/1513123391984836614
Dangerous driver crashed into garage in Teddington Close, Canterbury, while being followed by police
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/drunk-dad-ploughed-through-...
A Lexus GS300 with three male occupants "collided with a wall" in in Bwlchgwyn, near Wrexham at around 4.30pm yesterday (11 April). All 3 required hospital treatment, one of them had to be airlifted to Royal Stoke University Hospital with leg & head injuries. (Daily Post).
The previous day one lane of the A55 dual carriageway was closed due to "a one-vehicle crash", leading to long delays.
Mercedes driver crashes into Voi e-scooters
It's a good job there are onboard speed limiters - just imagine the carnage imagine if there weren't
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/20067966.mercedes-driver-crashes-e-scoo...
Tree hit by car in a cul-de-sac in the Shropshire village of Sherrifhales on Sunday evening.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/telford/shifnal/2022/04/1...
FFS, idiots like this shouldn't be in charge of a shopping trolley, never mind a car!
In Llanbedrog (near Pwllheli, Gwynedd) 3 teenagers were seriously injured in after a Ford Fiesta ST collided with a wall on Saturday evening. Two of them ended up in a specialist hospital in Stoke. Dickheads.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/three-teenagers-seriou...
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20077214.police-called-crash-alma...
I'd run off if a driveless car almost hit me and then rolled over on its side and expired.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20076815.dorset-police-attend-cra...
All buildings need a moat !
HGV overturns on the A53 near Shrewsbury.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2022/04/20/tru...
This is very close to the spot where 19 year old Charlotte Hope was killed and her mother seriously injured only last week in a head-on collision (article here). A man driving a BMW 140i (a 355 bhp penis extension) was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
I witnessed an HGV do something very similar on this same stretch of road about 3 years ago. Thankfully on that occasion the nearside wheels dropped into the ditch and it just ripped out a section of hedge.
Meanwhile yesterday (Tuesday) all the roads in and around Shrewsbury were choked, many moving at walking pace, due to a 2-lorry crash on the A5 dual carriageway bypass. Meanwhile Shropshire council keep approving hundreds of new houses at various locations all around the periphery of the town with little/no cycling access while running down the (already pathetic) bus services. Recipe for chaos.
Crewkerne, Somerset: London-bound trains delayed yesterday morning (Tuesday) after a signal was demolished by a car that left the road. South Western Railway said "Disruption is expected until the end of the day."
https://twitter.com/NetworkRailWssx/status/1518855453257654272
In Newquay, Cornwall someone drove their car off a bridge:
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/driver-makes-lucky-escap...
Tell me you drive a £60k BMW without telling me you drive...
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/20108870.bmw-driver-unhappy-4-west-quay...
Very sad case here, two three-year-old boys playing inside a barn were killed.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/04/utah-man-kent-barlow-driving-100-mph-crash...
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