Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

Both stationary and fast enough to be termed "runaway" and to smash a window?

brooksby wrote:

I just felt that that picture perfectly illustrated what can happen if you fail to tame or break-in your motor car.

(edit) - dammit!  I didn't see that you'd posted the story.  I'd filtered by 'newest first' and missed it.  Sorry, hawkinspeter <wrist-slap>

Expect a sternly worded letter from my lawyers

Could be worse - at least there won't be a squirrel's head in your bed tonight !

Data protection. The same reason faces are sometimes obscured on others posted in the thread and the police even blanked out their own regs in one bot edited tweet on the daily blog . I expect as GDPR rulings on these are still up in the air, companies and organisations don't want a GDPR ruling applied to them and potential fines so hide them. 

I think the key line was “I heard lots of shouting and thought there might have been some sort of event taking place – I had expected to perhaps see some people coming down the street on bikes,” 

Do lots of bikes come down the street when the market is being setup?

David9694 wrote:

Bit harsh.  Your post had NO hi viz, how was he supposed to see it? 

Touché!

Bit of a tenuous link from a reg plate to a specific person to say it is personal data.

But I can enter that reg plate into certain websites and get some data, can enter that data elsewhere and get more. Or maybe do an image search and trace you on facebook. Or be malcious and go a red mondeo, I have one and I need to clone the number plate for nefarious purposes so thanks BBC, the one you just published will do fine. As I mentioned it is mostly a "lets not be risked being sued" response.  

And most of those are done by the owners of the vehicles. I'm not stating that is the sole reason or that it is a consistent process across the board. Just that people are more inclined now to mitigate against what could be concieved as a privacy breach so they decide to hide faces and reg plates and other identifiers when posting them publically.

Data protection. The same reason faces are sometimes obscured on others posted in the thread

This appears to be 'urban myth' type bollocks to me. I don't believe (admittedly, all I know about the law is the dodges applied by Lancashire Constabulary to thwart it- couldn't resist that) that anyone could get into any trouble of any sort for taking, publishing, 'sharing', tweeting etc. photos of vehicles including the registration in any circumstances we're concerned with in this topic. I guess that there could be trouble if the vehicle was undercover police, secret service etc, or if there was a court order not to publish it. Pretty much all the vehicles in this topic are 'totalled'.

that's what I thought but the ICO disagrees !

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-t...

I don't follow their example

"A vehicle’s registration number can be linked to other information held about the registration (eg by the DVLA) to indirectly identify the owner of that vehicle."

The dvla already know who the keeper is but you can't ask them who it is, so I find it all unconvincing that a photo has to be redacted.

that's what I thought but the ICO disagrees !

The Information Commissioner is like the police- inept and forever trying it on. This was the Commissioner trying to prevent 9 names being revealed at a dodgy health trust (later the subject of several proper inquiries):

“ They do not have a public or political profile or personal responsibility
at a macro level for budgetary, personnel or policy matters; their chief
executives are ultimately accountable for their work; and they therefore
have a reasonable expectation that their privacy should be respected and
their names protected.”

The Information Tribunal completely disagreed and forced the disclosure of all 9 names. Recently the Commissioner tried to get away with supporting NHS England in declaring me as 'vexatious' so that they wouldn't have to bother with the information request. That was in the Commissioner's Decision Notice, but as soon as I fired the 21 gun broadside at the Commissioner at the Information Tribunal, she withdrew her Decision Notice and allegations immediately. I would have no hesitation in going against the Commissioner declaring that the registration number of a vehicle smashing through the wall of a building must be kept secret. She's a duffer imported from Canada to support the government's wishes for secrecy,

hirsute wrote:

The dvla already know who the keeper is but you can't ask them who it is

oh yes you can!

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/v888-request-by-an-individual...

you need a good reason for doing so, but anyone can ask for details of a car's owner based on the licence plate.

I suspect nothing would come from it. However you will notice that it is mostly organisations / companies who do it to be on the safe side just in case. They could be fined alot of found to breach anything or sued for some reason so they want to err on the side of caution. 

Not so sure. A car crashed outside my house, and their number plate was obscured, but mine, in the background, not. I phoned the Echo to complain, and they said as I wasn't involved, I didn't have the right to have my number plate hidden

And another one:

Soundwell Road crash: Car flips onto roof in 'serious' collision - updates

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/soundwell-road-crash-car...

Quote:

A car has flipped onto its roof following a 'serious crash' in north Bristol.

Those yellow, reflective taped bollards failed to make themselves visible.

https://goo.gl/maps/Mk9GuhYCxvSerfVv9

Well I blame the home owner. He decided to strip the house of it's hi-viz and then gets hit in the dark. 

I'd put in some tank traps, purely as a heritage exhibit of coastal defences of course, having a rusting steel I beam to crash into might focus some minds

There was a similar event on a beach in SE Anglesey about 25 years ago- the car was terminated, by the tide I think. Better still...it was a BMW.

Joy of joys! Google finds loads of these... OK, so it's a bit off-topic, but stiil fun!

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/moment-60k-car-submerged-sea-16230881

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/cemaes-bay-tide-submerges-car-11435010

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-56250162