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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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- David9694 3 sec ago
Theres not one scrap of self-help among drivers is there, it's always someone else's issue.
- Simon E 48 min 3 sec ago
Oh dear. A single bike in a single size in one shop is not indicative of the entire UK market for bicycles. And the slump isn't just bikes, it's...
- hawkinspeter 3 hours 40 min ago
Ridiculed or is it just jealousy?
- Rendel Harris 4 hours 6 min ago
Thank goodness for that. I don't suppose anyone would want you to. You certainly behave like one though.
- Eton Rifle 4 hours 14 min ago
You do see some utterly ridiculous examples of car use....
- Eton Rifle 4 hours 36 min ago
Exactly. Every road death is a tragedy but this is at the "twat deserved it" end of the spectrum, looking at the state of that car.
- Rendel Harris 4 hours 43 min ago
I'm not the editor of this article, nor indeed of anything on this website. One would have thought that didn't require explaining.
- Eton Rifle 4 hours 44 min ago
I think the answer is in your question. I genuinely didn't know he was married to her. It does kinda explain it. Disappointing, nevertheless.
- Daclu Trelub 9 hours 29 min ago
In a perfect world, we'd have a measure of how easily distracted someone is, as part of their driving test....
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Perhaps it was a wobbley cyclist.
I was riding up a hill in a high gear! Please just let it go.
Sorry - just my warped sense of humour.
"Warped", or - perchance - "wobbly"??
According to my colleagues very warped.
Roads like that are for cars - you should avoid them like the plague.
Always seems to have been a thing IME, can't say i've noticed it getting particularly better or worse over the last few decades but i'm not really keeping count to be honest...
David, I think you're being a little bit harsh on this one.
It's actually extremely difficult to give a mobile phone your full attention, and then to drive a vehicle at that same time. Especially if you have to grip the steering wheel between your knees whilst being literally forced to overtake a cyclist. And new buildings are often put up where least expected. Plenty of drivers every day are still avoiding crashes into roadside dwellings, so we do have to keep this in some kind of perspective.
I also think the homeowners often overreact. I mean come on, it's just one wall usually. No wonder the drivers typically leave on foot straight away, and don't go back to the vehicle keeper's registered address for 24 hours.
I see the error of my ways - cyclists and probably pedestrians too are clearly the complicating factor - it's hard enough to do all you describe and avoid a static target, but one that keeps moving, and wasn't even there this morning...
If you alternate the words "car" & "van" and "crashes" & "drives" into "building" & "house".
There seems to be loads of 'em.
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/clipsham-rutland-poli...
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/man...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsmanchester/driver-abandons-van-after-...
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/pen...
Here's a couple around Bristol:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/urgent-plan-fix-clear-safety-4328338
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-side-bristol-house-4289299
You are aware of the excellent "Audis in houses"?
Seems to be updated regularly.
Not as many new posts from AsEasyasRidingaBike, shame.
Had not seen Audis in houses before but it is truly excellent as you say. I don't know where to start with questions or comments on some of those pictures. My head hurts!!!!
Rover gone over?
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18651404.car-overturns-following-...
I can't post any specific local news items, but I certainly see a fair few car-sized holes in dry stone walls when I'm out cycling in the Peak District.
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