Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

"Just a little bit off the sides"

"Collisions with bus shelters normally happen when van drivers pull onto the pavement to let a blue lights vehicle pass, and forget to allow for their height."

Errrrrrrrrrrr...

Feel so sorry for the family, likely to be in temporary accommodation for at least 6 months.

hawkinspeter wrote:

So, if God has the agency and desire to ensure that a shop was empty to avoid casualties, why didn't they use their divine power to hit the brakes and just avoid the collision entirely? 

 

Any divine entity would surely by now have helped humans implement self-driving cars that never cause harm so that there is no way this type of incident could ever happen.  The fact that such self driving cars don't exist is proof - as if it were needed - that Gods don't exist (excluding Chris Boardman of course).

Well, you know the BMW drivers' saying: knock that house (hospital, social housing, care home, hospital...) down, could save 30 seconds on the trip!

The fact that such self driving cars don't BMW/Audi drivers do exist is proof - as if it were needed - that Gods don't exist 

Fair enough:

Well, you know the overpowered, over-accelerating and/or EV drivers' saying: knock that house (hospital, social housing, care home, hospital...) down, could save 30 seconds on the trip!

Did the driver also claim that he was a member of Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple?

mdavidford wrote:

Autonomous buses in Glasgow using bridges to attack their passengers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk3pyp7yno

Yet another black mark against self-driving buses - or is it rail infra?  This time Kilmarnock:

Quote:

Four people have been hurt after a double decker bus crashed into a railway bridge tearing its roof off in Kilmarnock.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20e3z7vg07o

A 39-year-old man has been arrested under suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident, drink driving, driving without a licence, dangerous driving and having no insurance
A dire threat of a good talking to, then?

RE: disqualified driver hits garden wall.  Was going to post that but:

a) The BBC got it right for once!  From the title it mentions a driver.

b) Although there was a crash into the built environment AND a car flip AND it's a problem of a driver (for everyone else) it doesn't really fit any of those threads.  This will be chalked up to "obvious wrong'un" and therefore not anything to do with "otherwise law-abding" drivers.  An exception which tests the rule but "is just one of those unavoidable consequences". (Along with all those road deaths).

But I do note the relatively short sentence (given previous) and the piddling "take two years off driving".  Which of course this chap has already proved he will ignore...

David9694 wrote:

Do you even have railway lines that far north? 

That's a bit forward!  But yes; pop up any time you like.  Except when the buses have been at the bridges.

OnYerBike wrote:

Not exactly a building, but car drives into swimming pool: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cp354g1x904o. (No footage of the actual incident, just the aftermath).

The driver claims he "accidentally stepped on the gas too hard".

Does he have a career producing album covers?

That's what they all say.

"Accidentally stepped on the gas too hard" is another way of saying "not paying enough attention".

In this case can't we just give the twat a Darwin Award?