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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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obviously on a fishing expedition.
He's been found guilty now. But what wasn't mentioned in the first one is that he his ban from previous drink driving had expired a day and 45 minutes beforehand. We have to hope he gets a long ban, although he only has a provisional license anyway
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19270674.driver-smashed-southampton-hom...
Who or what was the teenager suspicious of?
Must try harder. Fair play to the water company, I reported it when I got back this morning and they'd been to investigate within a couple of hours. Turns out it's not their responsibility, belongs to the farm. So I feel slightly better now!
Drivers can only do so much, I'm told.
Not so fast there - it was dark ,so you need to ask whether the shop had lights and hi viz because nothing is ever a driver's fault.
Legally? Maybe it was offering a drive-thru?
The bridge came out of nowhere
No sense of irony in Kent (?)
There doesn't seem to be mention of drivers, so I can only assume that they're autonomous vehicles but having achieved autonomy they just flip themselves over as a protest against their own existence.
I like the photo that clearly shows the tree and lamp-post in the cycle path.
The bollards were installed in October 2020 and keep all non-essential vehicles, including shop deliveries, out between 10:30 and 16:30 - long standing rule, apparently. How ever do they survive?
The Bollards look like they're telescopic - is the one catching the white car at half mast? Central Canterbury will, I guess, be once again crowded with people in the longer term - but in a lot of places, real world shopping ain't wot it used to be.
The Google image is of the scene of the crime.
How should that be written?
Anything's a drive-thru if you drive poorly enough
literally unless the guy was attempting a drive-thru ram raid to the pub, you cant believe how poorly they must have been driving to have ended up there, and not to have failed a drug/drink driving test.
maybe there was a guest beer from
https://www.brickbrewery.co.uk/
I don't anticipate they'll be any criminal conviction for this 'accident', so is it illegal?!
Don't think it was the police but a town team chairman.
Hope the wall turns the other cheek.
I stand corrected.
The bridge doesn't pay road tax, nor does the wall - that's all you need to know.
But in the case of the wall, the fact that cars are registered, drivers licensed and as you say insured, I'm sure matters will be swiftly resolved. I mean it's not as though you'd do something like that and then drive off, is it?
Actually, if you read the report, it had nothing to do with the BMW driver. It says, "A driver was freed by firefighters after his car hit a pub in Bury St Edmunds on Friday night."
It's surprisingly possible to roll over at very low speeds if you hit another car just
rightwrong.Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljlZqd5qot4
Imagine getting you bicycle stuck on one of those. You'd be stuck for hours!
Flipping crashing cars.
Reading the news report, it seems the car just wanted its tummy rubbed...
"A spokesperson said the vehicle had rolled onto its side in the car park..."
What is the cost in terms of the emergency services' time in picking up the pieces, day after flipping day? Tempting to say "ok bored now", but the "cyclists should be made to take a test", pay insurance, pay 'road tax' brigade just keep on coming.
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/18820696.ringwood-fire-crew-summ...
It's a cheap shot to say "oh look, empty pavement, clearly the new cycle lanes haven't single-handedly reversed 5 years of High Street retail decline"
Anyway, this on Facebook - comments looked pretty horrendous.
another day, another bridge strike
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18834238.lorry-crashes-bridge-bou...
Might be happening more frequently now, but this is from 2001. The transporter hit a railway bridge just outside my house. Not sure if it made the local paper at the time.
attitudes to drinking and driving were transformed many years ago blah, blah ...
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https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/18845469.woman-found-four-times-...
Cyclists not wearing helmets are a burden on the NHS blah, blah...
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18845745.police-ambulance-attend-...
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