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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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say whaaat! "Deputy Chief Fire Officer Steve Apter said: “Motorists blocking the paths of emergency services vehicles is worse than ever before."
Fire chiefs say the number of incidents where motorists hinder emergency service vehicles with erratic driving and poor parking is worse than ever before.
They add that these motorists are putting lives at risk by blocking off roads and even stopping on box junctions outside fire stations."
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18388786.womans-car-wont-start-blocking...
(no buildings harmed and apologies for the mission creep/ thread drift.)
A grade II listed bridge in Malmesbury?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-woman-arrested-drug-driving-5435157
What we need to do is to update all these old buildings and bridges to make them safe. It's a blight upon our country that we have all these non-hi-viz buildings and structures lying around that were thoughtlessly built without considering our modern motorist.
Bernard Street, Southampton closed after vehicle hits house
gas pipe ruptured - sorry no decent pictures, just more hassle from cars
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19318126.latimer-street-closed-off-vehi...
Revenge - building crashes into car
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19320422.gable-end-property-crush...
Those autonomous vehicles are up to no good again - I'm glad to see the trapped occupants managed to escape from the evil robotic vehicle, thought the article puts it as they 'absconded'. At least it was only an ambulance station and nothing important.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/car-smashes-through-wall-keynsham-5446834
An archway that could have impeded a fire engine?? Tear it down, rip it out! Adding insult to injury, a vehicle has had to get SMALLER - hello, newsflash, we're all getting bigger.
Next, you'll be telling me that every housing area built in the last 50 years is a de facto LTN.
Okay, I know this is for cars and buildings, but I do like a good car/field mashup.
A vehicle crashed off the M5 this morning and ended up in a field: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/driver-flees-after-crashing-car-5447296
(Admittedly the headline is written far more accurately: Driver 'flees' after crashing car off M5 into field near Bristol 'leaving passenger behind')
Also including this pic as it features a dog:
Car smashes through wall of Keynsham Ambulance Station and occupants 'run off'
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/car-smashes-through-wall-k...
"Occupants", eh?
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19325654.car-bursts-flames-crash-lam...
"The incident is not being treated as suspicious and has been recorded as accidental."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57239308
You only need look at the badge to know what the driver was like
Here's one from the US. The video is pretty scary.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/05/24/east-garfield-park-madison-stree...
Now the blame is on the crash itself, even the vehicles involved are innocent victims.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/a14-cambridge-newmarket...
Two for the price of one from Norfolk https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/car-crashes-into-house-holt-norwich-road-80...
The home owners response intruiged me, blaming the road,signage & lighting as the cause, rather than the actual motorists.
I would be prepared to accept a row of really heavy duty steel piles, most of which would be obscured from the house by the fence, if I lived there- at the expense of the nutter driver's insurance company, and installed at the time of the repairs.
Bournemouth weekend car-fest. I wonder if this is what the Council meant when it said it had a plan for this summer.
No buildings harmed AFAIK.
A Veolia lorry got stuck under a railway bridge in Oakengates, Telford this morning. It blocked the road and disrupted train services. I saw it on BBC Shropshire's live update page so will disappear soon but the original photo they used (credited) is here:
https://twitter.com/Hello_Noto07/status/1404339647350820865
One reply said "That poor bridge has taken a pounding over the years", suggesting that this is far from the first time it's happened.
not a word about whose van it was, etc
out-of-control van demolishes Lymington market stall and smashes into store
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/runaway-van-ploughs-through-ly...
(Car gets trapped on) Dover beach
The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/car-gets-stuck-in-the-sea-248956/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leeds-57514223
I was so surprised when I saw that it was an Audi
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-57499799
165 mph 60 mile chase 5.5 year ban...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57513425
"Stanningley shop crash: Driver arrested after car ploughs into building"
I suspect witchcraft of some sort.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19382107.spinnaker-pub-crash-colches...
1 year for killing one person and injuring 3.
“Whatever the court’s sentence today, I cannot change that, there is nothing that I can say or do that will change that. "
So why bother with any sentence.
2 years ban - what a fucking joke. If the accident was due to type 1 diabetes, then they clearly cannot drive for the rest of their life.
Bridgnorth, Shropshire - a white van crashed through a brick wall in the town centre on Saturday night after the driver lost control.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/bridgnorth/2021/06/22/bri...
Saw this in Lincoln today
Driver hits parked car and flips near school in St George (my hood) in Bristol
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/crash-near-bristol-school-prompts-5563723
"Fears of structural damage to a house" after it was hit by a complete twat driving a 4x4 at around 1am on Sunday. - Shropshire Star.
This is in a recently constructed cul-de-sac in a quiet village near Shrewsbury. FFS. And people wonder why I complain about the speed of f**king SUV drivers in the local lanes!
The Star also has articles saying that on Friday a man had to be cut free from a one-vehicle crash on a suburban road in Shrewsbury while another vehicle had hit a street light in the town and overturned in the early hours of Friday morning.
Car collides with tree and 3 other cars. No mention of a driver at all. Police are mystified.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/car-collides-tree-t...
couch potatoes have va va voom after all. At first glance, the pic looks like it belongs here.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19437783.trapped-driver-rescued-coll...
Reads as though the house were moving and the vehicle went one way and the house went the same way.
Here's one from this morning:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/police-tape-bristol-city-centre-5645491
One of those self-driving vehicles judging by the reporting
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