Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Drinfinity wrote:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tank-driven-remembrance-day-service-22177251.amp

Councillor crashes a tank into the war memorial during parade. 

A fitting tribute...

mdavidford wrote:

How come everyone's overlooked this case of someone crashing a car into the most famous building in the country?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59330152

That sort of thing is bound to happen when the driver thinks the rules of the road don't apply to him and he doesn't pay enough attention to the job at hand.

With Omicron around, it shows just how dangerous an accident like this can be - clearly a super-spreader event:

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And then I go outside and there's millions of people outside and a car in my house.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Autonomous lorry crashes through M4 central reservation barrier: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/m4-traffic-live-lorry-crashes-6296986

I see your barrier attacking a lorry and raise you a gantry trying to decapitate a lorry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-59518516

Have you got a number of usernames on that site ?!

These parked cars should be required to carry lights at night! It's madness, they're totally invisible...

It sort of seems odd to "like" that so consider that a nod.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Here we see the usually sedate Audi take to the water and attempt to mate with a nearby pedestrian bridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ70RUlyuPo

Took to it like a duck to toilet - got right under the rim.

Déjà vu?

(It's not Ashley Down, it's in Lockleaze)

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Can you cut-and-paste the relevant bits?

David9694 wrote:

Not sure how the off-side damage occurred if it was the front near side corner that biffed the shop window. 🧑🏻‍🦳 menace strikes again. 

Maybe that damage was already there from a previous "incident"?

"Peek, who has one previous driving conviction aged 15"

Yet he has got off a second major offence only 2 years later.

Just up the hill from West gate.

David9694 wrote:

car crashes into war memorial 2014-22

I trust that all of those drivers were referred to the crown court, facing a minimum ten years in jail, and that the attorney general and the transport secretary (?) got involved...? 

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

So how long is "momentary"?

Just ten seconds. It's hard to compose and send a text in much less time than that.

David9694 wrote:

If a car has had an impact at above say 3 mph, why doesn't it automatically shut itself down for 5-10 minutes? It's very clear that drivers can't be relied on to stop any more. 

In one way yes - we have things like ABS so you could speculate on a version of the "parking assist" tech that detected when collision with objects ahead was inevitable without braking and applied the brakes. Still a bit complicated. However... as we all know from tales here there are times when "for safety" you have to increase speed. Can't recall seeing it written down but I'm sure someone will have some stories about "...and then I saw the lorry barrelling at me and if I hadn't booted it..." or "we could see flames coming from the back of the tanker so we floored it and just avoided the blast".

Less flippantly you could conjecture a need to e.g. drive someone to hospital following an accident. Or maybe the accident occured on the way there? But fundamentally the accellerator pedal is seen as just as vital as the brake so I doubt this one's got (right) legs.

Parked cars are required to be lit in certain circumstances (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/waiting-and-parking-238-to-252) 

It might be just a coincidence that this happened the same month that Britain First launched their campaign against the RNLI. 

Sorry, peter: I find this thread very hard to navigate - didn't realise you'd already posted it! <slaps wrist>

brooksby wrote:

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How odd. Here it is:

One person was taken to a hospital after a car crashed into a Bethlehem house Tuesday evening, emergency dispatchers said.

The 4:20 p.m. crash occurred at the two-story home in the 700 block of East Ninth Street, dispatchers said.

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The couple who own the home initially asked for the public’s help in finding their dog, Kolby, who went missing after the crash, according to the couple’s Facebook post.

The dog later returned home on its own, the owner said.

Can you cut-and-paste the relevant bits?

I can't believe that he got away with £1K 'compensation/fine' to the pub owners after causing £500K of damage... 

David9694 wrote:

How???  

If you look closely, you can just see a stuck lorry holding up the traffic - it's not for us to criticise.

https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/19755030.police-direct-traffic-a...

I think it got scared by some nasty cyclists and has gone and hidden under the bridge until they've gone