Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

I just view the comments as "Newest First" and look down a few posts when I put something on here, but I'm surprised we don't get more dupes on this thread to be honest.

Grandad's insurance might be going up a bit come renewal.

you're virtually guaranteed a slap on the wrists and home for tea
No, that would be too draconian- it's wrist

David9694 wrote:

Ah yes, every driver is rushing to hospital - funny that. So sure, there's an override button for those times you mysteriously find yourself in a Hollywood action movie - but then you have to explain at your local police station why you used it, based on the automated report it generates.  

The same device, "spy in the cab", drivers will call it, sends a report of each time you exceed the speed limit as well. BTW, the car won't go unless it and the driver are legit.

Why not?

I'm with you, I'm just trying to think on the other side of the question. On that basis the override idea doesn't work (I imagine the argument runs) because it's exactly when people are stressed / under immediate threat that you'd need it, so that will delay them / they'll just keep stamping vainly on the pedals because they won't remember.

As for "spy in the car" I'm surprised enterprising motoring lawyers are not already making use of the "Bill Gates / Facebook / the Illuminati chips" in cases. Or rather the fact that most people carry around at all times a triangulatable, identifiable device (or several) equipped with an accellerometer. (Or maybe only the spies really have that access and they're not telling?)

That's for after the fact though. Black box sounds like a good idea. Per use on planes, on ships, trains etc. they can record accidents, give feedback to improve performance and ensure standards are maintained. Think there have been some proposals for "drunk locks" in cars too.

Just not sure the general public would take to this being imposed because lack of trust in authorities - "spying" and "control". Bit like the "chips" idea - lots of people happily do this voluntarily, see Strava!

How would that work with twoc ?

Uninsured losses fund seems more likely.

chrisonatrike wrote:

On that basis the override idea doesn't work (I imagine the argument runs) because it's exactly when people are stressed / under immediate threat that you'd need it, so that will delay them / they'll just keep stamping vainly on the pedals because they won't remember.

It always seemed to work fine for Michael Knight.

David9694 wrote:

I wish Road.cc would fix the broken threading. 

I think there's a few of us dupes around... 

What's broken about it? It seems to work okay, though it's not well suited for this large, ragtag collection of crashes.

mdavidford wrote:

chrisonatrike wrote:

On that basis the override idea doesn't work (I imagine the argument runs) because it's exactly when people are stressed / under immediate threat that you'd need it, so that will delay them / they'll just keep stamping vainly on the pedals because they won't remember.

It always seemed to work fine for Michael Knight.

I stand corrected! Just legislate that they have to have the series playing on the in car entertainment system in their KITT the whole time they're driving...

There was a fun one on an episode of Police Speed Traffic Interceptor Cops - a bloke was pulled over for doing somewhere over 100mph on a motorway.  With his eleven year old son on the back seat.  When questioned by the officer, turns out they were in a rush because the son was late for his (IIRC) violin lesson...

brooksby wrote:

There was a fun one on an episode of Police Speed Traffic Interceptor Cops - a bloke was pulled over for doing somewhere over 100mph on a motorway.  With his eleven year old son on the back seat.  When questioned by the officer, turns out they were in a rush because the son was late for his (IIRC) violin lesson...

I hope they prosecuted him for domestic violins

chrisonatrike wrote:

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.

VW have something along those lines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5NpXHxkrJc

Quote:

Volkswagen's Multi Collision Brake is a system that applies the brakes to prevent or mitigate a subsequent impact when a vehicle has been involved in a collision. If the airbag is fired in response to a primary collision, information is sent to the electronic stability control system to brake the vehicle. If the braking system is sufficiently intact to brake safely and effectively, the vehicle is automatically slowed down at a rate of 6ms-2 to a speed of 10km/h so that a secondary impact, for instance against another vehicle or roadside object, is avoided or at least less severe.

VW also has Front Assist, with radar:

"The city emergency brake function is active in urban traffic at speeds up to 19 miles per hour. If you don’t brake enough Front Assist boosts the braking pressure to prevent a collision. And if you don’t brake at all Front Assist automatically steps in and does it for you."

brooksby wrote:

Quote:

Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country. 

Can you cut-and-paste the relevant bits?

That site is geo-blocking due to GDPR, so I connected via the U.S. The article is a bit sparse although I'm glad they got their dog back

Quote:

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.

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.

hirsute wrote:

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

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

And he'd been drinking before the incident too. I would expect a harsher sentence.

1 series so not even a proper bmw

Spectacular video though.

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

Another day, another Audi in a single-vehicle incident.

This one felled a traffic light pole, damaged some control boxes and cables and ended up in the middle of Emstrey roundabout on the A5 dual carriageway near Shrewsbury at 5.40am on Saturday morning. Saw it as we drove past on Sunday.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2021/12/13/tra...

 To paraphrase our reactions - "It's an Audi, what a surprise!" (with vanity number plate too, it seems)

Shortly after 11pm on Friday night a saloon car hit a wall at the Telford International Centre.

At 1.30am the previous Sunday morning (5 December) someone smashed their car into a garden wall in Buildwas, near Ironbridge. Fire service had to cut them out, four appliances were sent to the scene.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/firefighters-cut-person-c...

At 3pm today a car overturned outside outside Leighton Hospital in Crewe. Guess the brand of the car...

Yes, IT WAS AN AUDI.

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/car-flips-ove...

Also this afternoon - a driver careered off the road near a school in Walsall and ran over an 8 year old child who sustained potentially serious injuries. The Nissan Micra smashed through a garden wall.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/walsall/2021/12/14/school...

From last month but clearly this sort of thing is happening more often:

"A white Volkswagen Golf has crashed into a bus stop on St Leonard's Street, just off Bernard's Terrace this evening, as one boy appears to be uninjured leaving the car, an eyewitness has reported. ... the car appears to have lost control and crashed head on into the bus stop."

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/emergency-services-race-scene-edinburgh-22222756

David9694 wrote:

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/teen-caused-500k-of-damage-to-pub...

The bollards in this article should be ashamed. Have these slackers been reported to the World Bollard Association?

Can't understand all these people arriving at the front of the War on the Motorist not equipped with tanks? Or at least self-recovering vehicles. Are we failing to learn from history?

Good point - it's not just hospital costs for fixing up the carnage.

Bloody cyclists:

Along as it wasn't the driver who lost control.

What a disgrace! They've let us down, the building down and most of all they've let themselves down

this sort of thing is happening more often

The infamous A6 traffic lights in Garstang, scene of the Lancashire Constabulary competition for who can enter the junction the longest time after the lights turned red, recently experienced a collision with the pole holding the lights which is now bent. Unfortunately, I wasn't there when it happened- it was someone turning right off the A6 who hit the nearside lights on the road he was turning into. Presumably he was aiming for the winner and travelling pretty fast.

"The Swan Inn" - should have changed that, it's practically an invite to.