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Car flips - please post your local news stories
And there are points, which you can claim for your story. The person with the most points wins a table for four at The Farmer's Dog (second prize : two tables🫢). Â
The scoring system will probably evolve, in fact suggestions for additional points can be made, but for starters:
Score one point for each of:
Clear picture of car on its roof or side
30 mph limit /residential roadÂ
Audi, BMW or "super-car"
Article doesn't mention a driverÂ
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Car flips onto its roof in dramatic crash off busy Nottingham roundabout
I make it three points (photo of car on roof, residential road and no mention of a driver).
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/car-flips-onto-roof-...
A four pointer I'd argue. 30 zone, plenty of pictures, no driver (yet paradoxically a 'professional' driver), not a supercar but supersized, and how about half a point for both lanes blocked ' beyond rush hour!'.
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/24782145.lorry-overturned-cr...
Car flips onto roof outside Sainsbury’s in Station Road, Staplehurst
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/weald/news/car-flips-onto-roof-after-rounda...
Plus a bonus point for being on a double yellow AND the pavement!
Car flips onto side after crash on Boscombe Overcliff Drive
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24778256.car-flips-onto-side-cras...
All the more remarkable because it looks like a pick-up actually being used to carry heavy/bulky stuff. I like how the Mini behind is almost saying "FFS, HOW?"Â
Emergency services called to River Medway near Strood Retail Park and Morrisons after car gets stuck in mud
A spokeswoman for the ambulance service said it was called to reports a vehicle had left the road when it became stuck in the mud.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/emergency-service-response-afte...
if you change "when" to "then", you're closer to what happened here.Â
Followed by being submerged when the tide came in !
I can't find a news story, but this is just across the river from me. It's done quite a number on that telephone pole. I've biked on this stretch of road about a half dozen times.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PeoriaIL/comments/1h6pcsp/caution_car_roll_over...
Somewhere around here. It's a shitty 45 MPH road with no shoulder. I have a better route now.
Just spotted this comment:
If you haven't seen it, Peoria Area Scanner & Dashcam has a video of it from a dashcam posted on Facebook.
I came up on the accident while they were loading the victim onto the stretcher. It was a 19 year old girl, she actually responded to the dashcam footage on FB and said that she broke her back in two places. Â
My husband broke his back this summer so I now know more about spinal fractures than I ever thought I'd need to know. I reckon she'll have an easier recovery at 19 than my husband's had at 44. A lot of people were praying for her today, I'm so glad that she's (relatively) ok. There was a fatal accident practically spitting distance from there in July, in that case it was a drunk 16 year old who killed her friend
Here's the video, if you have Facebook.
Plus points for being a driverless car, in a 30mph area. Double bonus points for flipping over a wall and into a cemetery.Â
Minus points for only being on its side, not on the roof
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https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/24774117.scholemoor-cemetery...
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EDIT: -The newspaper is now reporting that two people have died in this incident. It appears from the news report that they were driving INSIDE the cemetery - using the roads inside the cemetery as a race track - when they flipped the car.
What an idiotic waste.
Live: Audi crashes on to its roof in Honiton town centre https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-audi-crashes-roof-honiton...​
Overturned car blocks road in Jevington
Another self-driving car accidentÂ
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/24760579.recap-overturned-car-blocks-roa...
Car flips in Millennium Way, Sheerness, near former Aldi supermarket that reopens as Home Bargains this weekend
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/car-overturns-on-main-road-i...
Rather artistic photo of this (driverless) car that has ended up on its roof on a dead straight road in Bradford.
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/24739976.overturned-car-chat...
Try https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/24739976.overturned-car-chat...
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/car-left-balancing-on-...
No reference to a driver or even a passenger - the nearest is "The police have confirmed that no injuries were reported due to the collision."
At 2.30pm on Saturday a small hatchback car "came to rest on its side in a precarious position" near the hamlet of Ratlinghope on the west side of the Long Mynd. Three occupants "were escorted out of it". No photo, I'm afraid.
Trying to create a new LTN in Bristol: Bizarre parking on West Country street as Audi mounts parked car
Onlookers were left scratching their heads
https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/bizarre-parking-west-countr...
The cars aren't just self-aware now - they're starting to breed.
Egged on by the others, the youngest of the Audis makes the first move.Young and hopeful, it moves in to strike, however youth and inexperience play against the youngling. It attempts it's first mounting maneouvre, relying on it's target not being able to move out of the way, but clearly has no idea how to do the deed.
But whAT aboUT thEÂ disable d? (Foreground left - pretty faded)
No driver involved
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24728452.car-crash-station-way-colch...
Driver injured after car flips onto its roof
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0g9rpp8x9o
Surprising- Honda drivers are usually careful, although prone to confuse the brake and accelerator in EVs and smashing down the public toilets (I actually saw this happen here).Â
The crashed car that became a five-star attraction
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14lp4336m6o
A classic! Featuring:
I do have some sympathy with "someone gave humans a powered vehicle that could go faster than 5mph, what do you think will happen?" But I'm gonna guess it's not really the road...
Also "waiting for insurance company" - shades of the urban horse-transport crisis of the 19th century where horses rotted in the streets awaiting insurance confirmation that they had actually died in harness...
Crash on Rowlands Hill flips car on its roof
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24701841.crash-rowlands-hill-flip...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr97dl4740o
Mother and child escaped unharmed; unclear who was driving.
I cycled past a flipped car last night on Cranbrook Rd, Bristol but it doesn't seem to be reported anywhere. Quite impressive as it was fully on its roof and a whole section of the road was closed.
Meanwhile we have this one on the M32: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-m4-traffic-car-overturns-9676596
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