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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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https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18990739.no-action-driver-involve...
He was blinded by oncoming lights ??
I like the way one of the comments explains why at 40 mph it is not possible to stop within the distance illuminated by dipped lights...
That is assuming you even use the brakes. Judging by the state of the car he never bothered.
fencing, lighting reflective collars: anything to deflect from drivers' competence and behaviour. The car-led sub-urbanisation of the New Forest.
There was an Echo report on a hit and run on the Twin Sails bridge in Poole - I'd just got into challenging Mr "ah, but was he wearing the relevant safety equipment?" when the paper turned off commenting and with that, all the comments disappeared. Too much speculation, I guess.
Perhaps it's time to create a dedicated hit and run thread, maybe start again on this one?
Reminds me of that classic bumper sticker.
"BABE MAGNET. DON'T LAUGH, YOUR DOORTER MAY BE INSIDE"
UPDATE - 6 months in jail.
Would have been non-custodial, but he managed to miss all 3 cyclists
An assumption that it crashed, surely it was just parked there?
Although there's a lot of selfish parking around Bristol, it usually doesn't involve activating the airbags.
Some of the parking round me is pretty poor too.
"you can walk the rest of the way to the kerb there, mate".
Arch humour.
but, officers it's great that the man was dim enough to leave behind two wallets but, you've got the reg plate, so you should have no diff- oh, sorry I only did that yesterday.
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/18803085.driver-crashed-bmw-new-...
But of course they will have had several hours to sober up/drink more or get some of the drugs out of their system.
Some of my favorite bits on "police Inteceptors" are when the wrong'un has crashed their car whilst drunk, but then reports the vehicle stolen in a drunken act of "genius", but when the police show up find that their shoes are covered in mud and they have their car keys, and the icing on the cake, they locked their car up before leaving it, something that a "car thief" is probably not really concerned about.
Why can't they stick to the car paths intstead of holding up the railway traffic? And it's all black, impossible for trains to see.
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/national/18794478.two-people-hospital-c...
(From the same paper as the underwater drunk one)
I saw this story expanded on somewhere - there's a row of parking spaces further back at 90 degrees to the track. Someone commented "look at that flimsy old iron fence - that's not going to hold a car back, is it?" Or some such.
Range Rover plunges into River Stour near Canterbury
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/range-rover-plunges-into-ri...
He had his hazards on - why didn't you say this earlier??
'Adam Hopkins, who manages Cycles UK in the city, saw the vehicle while walking his dog this morning.
"It was quite gloomy and it was the flashing hazard lights which caught my attention.'
Well they are meant ot make the car more noticable. I'm guessing that they came on automatically, witht the deployment of the airbags.
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Enough is enough. They *really* need to take Prince Philip's license away now
And they've got the reg plate, so there should be no difficulty in tracing the driver or owner...
I had no idea that self-driving cars had become so common. Looks like the software needs some serious work.
Algorithm "hmm, might be a river, a billowing carrier bag or someone pushing a bike. Result : maintain 70% throttle."
I have it on good authority and fact checked by the BBC, Daily Mail and Sunday Times - SO - they must be correct and they say actually it was the building that crashed into the car..... so stop twisting the facts to fit your bicycle agenda okay.
My wife has persuaded me that, strictly speaking, it is against the law get some matches and set fire to buildings across the road. Oh, but it’s tempting.
Thing is, they just sit there, watching us, waiting for their moment to strike
...and I really don't trust this one at all
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18779667.woman-arrested-car-crashes-riv...
glug, glug - in the drink
Probably misled by her GPS
I blame the river for not wearing hi-viz. Asking for it!
And - get this - it's tidal, it moves about - at 3 am at whatever m.p.h. Suffering from the ill effects of alcohol, what chance did she have?
Although it isn't clear whose car is in the river.
"The vehicle was fully submerged and was recovered this morning during low tide" a bit scary.
The tinpot organisations that "run" the New Forest really do my head in some times. There's a lot of anti-cycling sentiment generally*, but the animals go on dying and yet you hear no anti-car sentiment. Don't blame the visitors either - this goes on all through the winter months as well. They could push for an an average speed zone on the B3078, but they don't.
I'd have thought it would be near impossible to disguise a car that had been involved in an animal collision, when you arrive home or when it comes to getting it repaired.
"Speaking at a recent meeting of the Verderers Court he said a driver who failed to stop after hitting a pony had been banned from the roads for six months.
The motorist was convicted of failing to stop after the collision on the B3078 Roger Penny Way, which links Brook and Godshill."
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18764596.rewards-totalling-almost-10-00...
* photo: located about half a mile from a primary school children's outdoor education centre, so doubleplusgood to the wag who did this
I am just confused with this one. How are the cyclists wankers supposed to wank off any cyclists if the only ones allowed there are the cyclists wankers?
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