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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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Just seen this: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/crash-near-clevedon-pier-cyclist-4519163
Wishing him a speedy recovery
the bridges at Manningtree and Needham Market are forever being hit and cause delays to the trains as Network Rail have to assess the damage, but this was a new one this week https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/van-stuck-under-railway-bridge-in-pound-hill...
but even higher bridges struggle to avoid collisions when youve got a van on to top deck of a vehicle transporter
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/bramford-road-ipswich-car-transporter...
and finally car ends up in a garden, youd have thought at some point they might have tried using the brakes having shot across a very wide road, pavement and then into the garden https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/car-crashes-into-garden-in-woodbridge...
Vans !
I'd like to add Hawk's Bridge in Ely to this list: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/cambridgeshires-most-ba...
Maybe it should have been more visible?
As I understand the most crashed into rail bridge in the UK.
I can see how those Day-Glo chevrons could blend in with the sky.
The sun was in his eyes.
How a, I ment to keep a 3 year old quiet talk to my mum on the phone and not hit this ridiclus bridg???? Fumin
a case for Cycleimg Mikey?
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/bekki-fairley-asks-drivers-to-stop...
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norwich-courier-speaks-of-relief-after-van-...
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/wall-smashed-in-bacton-by-driver-1-6834005
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cyclist suffers punctured lung: police spokesman said: “A 31-year-old man, the driver of the Audi, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, causing injury by dangerous driving and failing a drug test.”
all in a single visit to the Eastern Daily Press, looking for something else.
That bekki fairley one is insane.
If I lived nearby, I'd be up there stopping them.
A 2-car collision on A49 in Hadnall (30 mph limit), near Shrewsbury on last month. I know this road well, no excuses.
https://twitter.com/OPUShropshire/status/1293631605286871046
No buildings involved but 4 days later this incompetent idiot lost control in the wet, rolled their car down a bank on the A5.
https://twitter.com/OPUShropshire/status/1294921562483757056
The railway bridge by Shrewsbury station has had its share of stuck lorries over the years.
This is from a few years ago. If my average speed had been a smidge quicker, I would have been stood exactly where the car is. Saved by being a bit unfit.
Call me superstitious, but I don't use that crossing anymore!
There's a bridge in Romsey that has been hit more than 20 times:
https://www.romseyadvertiser.co.uk/news/18032717.20-lorries-15-years-get...
Bristol again, a bus and a bridge (possibly trying to be a James Bond film)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-54109763?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral
I know school bus drivers have only just got off furlough but...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-54099591
That's horrific
Another one for Bristol (Filton):
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/peugeot-stuck-house-filton-after-4491665
I like the re-purposed wheelie-bins!
One from the Isle of Wight. Audi, obviously.
https://onthewight.com/audi-supercar-crashes-into-wall-photos/
I liked the contrast between the rather hum-drum backland location and the "exotic" car - one of the commenters on the article has it right - where are you going to go on the IoW?
Car crashes into wall and telephone pole in early hours
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18684036.car-crashes-wall-telepho...
I see from the picture that neither the wall or telephone pole chose to be wearing Hi Viz.
There's the problem...
"This wall and this telegraph pole should have made themselves more visible".
Mandatory training, registration, taxation and insurance for walls and telegraph poles and this sort of thing would NEVER happen...
they blended in with the trees
It's high time that these obstructions that just hold up the traffic were removed from our streets - the schools go back in a few days' time, what will it be like then??
Bet they didn't have lights either. I mean, it's a RED CAR, did neither of them see him coming?
Free-flowing roads have been gridlocked since the arrival of pop-up telegraph poles and walls. Where was the consultation?
It's high time that these obstructions that just hold up the traffic were removed from our streets
Agreed- hence the oath that must be uttered by those hoping to be admitted to the BMW True Owner's Club: "Could save 10 seconds on the journey, knock that hospital* down"
* Insert social housing, care home, food bank, vegetarian store etc. according to taste
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18667889.van-gets-stuck-hedge-end-burge...
"A VAN driver has 'wiped out' a serving hatch at a Hampshire fast food restaurant as he drove the 'wrong way' down the drive-thru.
A witness has described the moment he saw a van drive the wrong way through the drive-thru at Burger King in Hedge End, 'wiping out' one of the serving hatches and damaging his own van."
Imagine the dire consequences of allowing bikes in!!
Does anyone else see signs for "Drivethru" fast food joints and think "Great, can I borrow a Challenger tank and do the job properly?"
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