Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Mungecrundle wrote:

Another of those rascally self aware cars putting its passengers at risk. Maybe this one was after a copy of the highway code?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58945203

Indeed, car crashes into library, and nobody brought to book!

Won't happen again - that wall's going to be built like a brick outhouse after 3 reps at 1-2 tonnes.

"Which one's reverse, again?"

Skitchin it isn't.

It's painted white and it marks the corner of the pavement.

Drive on the road, don't cut the corner then there is absolutely no problem.

We know what happened there. They decided that if someone can park a bike on the roads and take up a precious car space, they would park where the bike should be kept.

David9694 wrote:

Looks like a fishtailing caravan to me. I always wonder if you get billed for any of the hassle and work this sort of thing causes.

Apparently, it's being described as a collision between a lorry and a car towing a caravan. It's creating a bit of a tailback.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/m5-traffic-live-delays-car-5831276

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All traffic being temporarily held and stationary traffic due to accident, a lorry and a car involved on M5 Southbound before J19 A369 Martcombe Road (Portishead).

All traffic has been stopped as of 14:25 just after the Avonmouth Bridge. Camera images show the lorry diagonally across lanes one and two. A caravan is facing the wrong way in lane four.

War on the hard-pressed, hard-working, motorist, innit...

just one of nine bridge hits yesterday, and those were only the reported ones.

and theres already been a tipper truck in Wales today hit a bridge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58406885

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

Alternatively with the second one, might have been going straight and suddenly swerved to avoid a car that had pulled out. Although if that was the case, I'm sure it might have been mentioned. 

I do wonder how many of these drivers crashing into buildings etc actually get investigated and charged for their driving at the time. Of course the drunk/ drugs etc ones do, but surely driving in a way that hits a building when nothing mechanically is wrong is really screaming careless. 

Indeed as is demolishing street furniture, mounted on the pavement. only luck it was a lamp post and not a person.

this one looks like they thought they were at a drive thru https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/crime/man-arrested-after-crash-near-sudbury-...

Excellent placement of the bollards to protect the valuable building in the place it got hit last time, but not the rest of it, and let's not worry about anyone using the pavement.

This fluorescent yellow illuminated retroreflective bollard should have made itself more visible.

Two totally different events from the stories / pics available.

And it is just me but does the driver who got out look like they might have driven down the "closed off" lanes. Then is trying to work out how to get around the emergency vehicles so they are not held up. 

When are these entitled bridges going to learn to share the road? If there's a tall lorry coming along, then they need to pull to one side to let it pass. It's just common sense innit?

That particular stable door has been thoroughly nailed shut. They're going to be really outraged when someone waiting to go into the carpark accidentally puts it in reverse though. Actually - looking at the boards in the picture it looks like that was what happened the final time...

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

Two totally different events from the stories / pics available.

And it is just me but does the driver who got out look like they might have driven down the "closed off" lanes. Then is trying to work out how to get around the emergency vehicles so they are not held up. 

I think you're right as one was northbound and the other was southbound. Strange that both incidents involved a lorry and a car towing a caravan.

chrisonatrike wrote:

That particular stable door has been thoroughly nailed shut.

I doubt that'll be enough to stop someone driving a car through it, though.

hawkinspeter wrote:

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

Two totally different events from the stories / pics available.

And it is just me but does the driver who got out look like they might have driven down the "closed off" lanes. Then is trying to work out how to get around the emergency vehicles so they are not held up. 

I think you're right as one was northbound and the other was southbound. Strange that both incidents involved a lorry and a car towing a caravan.

Not when you see how lorry drivers and caravan-towers behave on the M5!

Yep, first of all, totting up process has caused the ban so serial shit driver. Second, the whole Shirley High Street is no parking with double yellows and time gated areas,  so he did well to decide to park on the only section where the Police would get involved and points are issued, (which probably leads back to point 1). 

Sriracha wrote:

Mungecrundle wrote:

Another of those rascally self aware cars putting its passengers at risk. Maybe this one was after a copy of the highway code? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58945203

Indeed, car crashes into library, and nobody brought to book!

"Hampshire Constabulary said the crash was not being treated as suspicious". Of course not, there's nothing unusual about driving a car through a brick wall into a public building.

I think it should be standard procedure for drivers to face a re-test and eye test if they hit anything.

Mungecrundle wrote:

Be careful if you use your car in the execution of a harmless prank as it may pull a little joke of its own and pretend to have brake failure. https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/peterborough-man-speaks... Not so much fun for the poor chap who is now quadriplegic at the age of 27, but at least his hilarious car driving chum will be back behind the wheel.

Police say the takeaway is be more careful when driving. But as no defect was found with the car, it all looks very dilberate to me. So the real lesson is (as always) you will ge a lesser sentance if you inflict life changing injuries on someone with a car, than if you use a baseball bat.

Why this was not GBH/attempted murder is beyond me. Causing injury by dangerous driving seems like a trivial conviction for deliberately driving at someone and causing such injuries.

hirsute wrote:

Came across this earlier drilling down through twitter not sure where it is

https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1437329724095803394/photo/1

Love the irony of the 20mph speed limit sign, looks like a small one too, so not the first one passed by the motorist. I'd like someone to explain to me how a car doing only 20mph can end up on its roof like that.

I think the question also has to be asked on why he decided to reverse there? The Co-op is further forward then that. Although I can't believe that before and after the Ped, that road is two way and the wider road on the ped end is one way. The whole length of that lane needs to be one direction only.