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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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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".
Drive through steak house?
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/24722755.piccadilly-circus-angus-stea...
Seems a bit harsh to arrest the driver when it reads like the car did it all on its own.
Elderly man sentenced following serious crash in Ringwood
In April 2023 a Mercedes C-Class crashed into a car before ploughing through a brick wall on Horton Road.
Malcolm Lomas, 90 was arrested and charged with causing serious injury by careless / inconsiderate driving.
A woman from Southampton was left with life-changing injuries as a result of the crash.
Lomas was also sentenced to pay £5,018 and is banned from driving until he takes another test - seriously??
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24727084.elderly-man-sentenced-fo...
Car crashes into front of home in Briggs Mead, Wymondham
A man has been arrested on suspicion of a range of offences after a car was driven into the front of a house.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24733758.car-crashes-front-home-briggs-mead...
Bus hits house as snow causes travel disruption and shuts schools across Yorkshire
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2024-11-19/travel-disruption-and-schoo...
The driver claims he "accidentally stepped on the gas too hard"
We can expect to see this regularly, along with 'I didn't see him', 'I didn't mean to do it' and 'I don't remember it at all, but I'm fine to drive in future' in accounts of drivers who trash people and buildings and get away with it.
t-boned
Did the driver also claim that he was a member of Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple?
Domin-oh-oops: Driver crashes car through Domino’s store
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/driver-car-ploughs-dominos-store/
Barbourne crash: car stuck on wall by doctor's surgery
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24622584.barbourne-crash-car-stuck-...
After a two for the price of one offer at Tescos ? (Yes it's the same car, same crash)
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/24627798.delays-car-crashes-civic-dri...
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/24627982.ipswich-tesco-remains-open-c...
Car flips onto roof in crash near Bristol hospital https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-flips-onto-roof-crash-9605690
Live updates after car crashes into Well Street doctor's surgery
'The door has been smashed to bits'
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/live-updates-af...
Don't recall this gem
"We don't know final amount of damage but at the moment it's at least £150,000-plus and it will probably be more."
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24635869.clacton-family-still-not-ho...
This is why cyclists must have insurance.
Car crashes into side of Winchester city centre church
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24642034.car-crashes-side-winc...
Police officers were called to Fisher Close at around 5.30pm on Monday, October 7, with Cambridgeshire Constabulary stating the car involved was a silver BMW 3 series. A 28-year-old man from Ramsey was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, driving while unfit through drink or drugs and possession of cannabis, Cambridgeshire Live reports.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/bmw-ploughs-house-man-28-9623633
Watch car seriously stuck after careering off the road and smashing through fence
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/watch-car-seriously-stuck-after-9625134
and
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-police-cordon-road-bristol-9624724
and
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/four-teens-injured-car-smashes-9626355
Bitterne Road West garden damaged in Southampton crash
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24646218.bitterne-road-west-garden-leve...
3 cars crashed and at least one caught fire under a railway bridge on the A4126 Spring Road in Wolverhampton at 11.15am today. Although the article doesn't say as much, it looks like at least one car crashed into the bridge [street view].
Trains between Wolverhampton and Birmingham have been cancelled and a bus replacement service between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury. National Rail are warning of problems until at least 5pm.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/transport/2024/10/12/car-crash-and-f...
Soulton Road in Wem was closed on Friday afternoon due to a car that had "collided with a push bike and a lamppost".
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/north-shropshire/2024/10/...
On the afternoon of 4 October the Star reports that "A stretch of hedgerow was engulfed with flames during a car fire" near Preston Brockhurst. Did someone's barbecue get out of control, with the poor car an innocent passer-by? Hmmmm...
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/north-shropshire/wem/2024...
Edit to add (Sunday): at 1.50pm on Saturday Police and Fire Service were called to Griffins Wood Close in Lightmoor, Telford where a car had reversed into a house. "Inspection carried out and advice given to occupier" but no word on whether the fuckwit driver was charged.
Man jailed over funeral home car crash murder bid
My takeaway from this is that he needs a better brief. This is the sort of sentence that someone should get when they use their car as a weapon but we all know that it doesn't happen. If he hadn't admitted it, I think he probably could have got away with a one year ban (for drink driving) and a suspended sentence (for careless driving).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5e9dqxzy5o
Japan heritage worker backs car into oldest toilet at Kyoto temple
A man whose job it is to help preserve Japan's cultural heritage has accidentally smashed his car into the country's oldest toilet at a centuries-old Buddhist temple.
Newquay pub wall smashed to bits in hit and run crash
Finally an article that acknowledges that there was a driver. Unfortunately they have no idea who that driver is.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/newquay-pub-wall-smashed...
Woman seriously injured as car crashes into house in Exeter
A house was left structurally unsafe after car collided with it
"The force is not appealing for information from anyone who witnessed the crash, or who has dashcam footage of the incident. Anyone with information is asked to get in contact with police via 101."
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/woman-seriously-injured-car-cr...
Wow! This is a place I go to a few times a year, but it's right across the parking lot from the pub I go to weekly.
Person injured after crash at Channel Tunnel terminal in Folkestone
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/person-taken-to-hospital-af...
Range Rover plunges into Great Stour river near Ashford town centre
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/huge-emergency-response-as-car...
Car rammed into Argos in suspected attempted burglary
Police are asking witnesses to come forward
The force said it received a report at about 5.25am on Sunday 20 October 2024 that a light-blue Seat Salsa car had collided with the wall of the Argos store at the Peel Centre on Babylon Hill in Yeovil. The offenders fled the scene shortly afterwards.
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/car-rammed-argos-suspe...
Live: Car crashes into building at Tiverton park
BREAKING: Police have put a cordon in place
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-car-crashes-building-tive...
Not quite a building, but a car (no driver mentioned) takes out a bus shelter
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/24677719.bus-stop-near-thorn...
Note - this bus stop is adjacent to the (in)famous Leeds-Bradford cycle "super"highway, which is a whopping 75cm wide at this point.
Not so much a case of a "floating bus-stop", as a "flying through the air bus-stop"
Repeat offender jailed after drink driving crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crezj5lqxpzo
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