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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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Police cordon as car crashes into house after being shot at in Beeston
A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said: "Officers were called at 6.45pm yesterday evening (Saturday) to reports a white Fiesta was being chased by a red and white off-road motorbike. The Fiesta was later found abandoned after it had crashed into a property on Woodview Terrace causing damage to a gas pipe. A number of houses were evacuated whilst the gas pipe was made safe.
https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/police-cordon-car-crashes-h...
Firefighters rescue man trapped after car crashes into garage in Milton Keynes:
https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/crime/firefighters-rescue-man-trappe...
No mention of a driver.
Toyota Prius driver charged with drink driving after car crash
A 73-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with drink driving in Romsey after a car crashed into a wall.
Police were called to Church Road at around 3.30pm on Thursday, September 7, after reports of a Toyota Prius colliding with a wall.
Roger Arthur Harris, 73, of Rudd Lane, Romsey, has been charged with driving whilst over the alcohol limit.
He is due to appear before Southampton Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, September 28.
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23778697.toyota-prius-driver-c...
Car crashes head-on into Tesco supermarket in St Austell
No mention of a driver
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2023-09-09/car-crashes-head-on-into...
Cant remember if I posted this one or not. Money on the driver straight lining the roundabout. Car crashes through wall into house in Glenrothes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66275330
Car crashes into Thanet Tasty Chicken in Northdown Road, Margate
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/car-smashes-through-takeaway-wi...
Like it's going out of fashion...
Car smashes into Next store in Truro
Pictures from the scene show that a car has ploughed through the front entrance of the store.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/car-smashes-next-store-t...
Going a bit meta here, but relevant to this topic:
Cars Should Not Crash Into Buildings
Round up
Children 'traumatised' and 'scared to go home' after car driver crashes into house (subscription)
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/dudley/halesowen/2023/08/...
Car crashes into shop in central Brighton (picture)
A number of electric bicycles parked in a rack on the pavement were damaged when the car hit the front of a WH Smith store.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-66799212
Woman rushed to hospital after car crashes into house in Clock Face
https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/23776025.woman-rushed-hospital-car-c...
Daubhill residents call for action after 3 car crash
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/23790754.daubhill-residents-call-ac...
Arrest after car crashes into house and vehicles in Greasby
https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/23788773.arrest-car-crashes-house-veh...
Okay, not a building and this looks like it really was driverless
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-rolls-bristol-harbour-tape-8756293
Dramatic pictures show scene after car crashes into Luton house
It looks this self-driving car mixed up a Luton house and a Luton van and tried to mate with it
https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/crime/dramatic-pictures-show-scene-aft...
hawkinspeter will no doubt correct me if this story is in the wrong column (squirrel with a mortar board on or something). Little does he know that I can't remember why I decided on CCIB...
Sturry level crossing damaged by lorry as police close road between Shalloak Road and Broad Oak Road near Canterbury
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/road-closed-after-lorry-cra...
Car smashes into historic Surrey pub in horror crash as passers-by watch on in disbelief
Pictures from the scene show the car halfway inside the pub
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/gallery/car-smashes-histori...
Driver of BMW smashes into Daventry building before running off
https://www.northantslive.news/news/northamptonshire-news/driver-bmw-sma...
Pedestrians and driver in hospital after car reversed through Chichester city centre charity shop
https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/pedestrians-driver-hospita...
Cornwall road closed after 'drunk driver' crashes car into hedge
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-road-closed-aft...
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Five injured after car crashes into tree near Axminster
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-66500046
Car crashes into tree near Corfe Castle
https://www.swanage.news/car-crashes-into-tree-near-corfe-castle/
Car crashes into tree near Romsey leaving 19-year-old with serious injuries
https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/hampshire-news/car-crashes-tree-near...
Car crashes into tree on Wiltshire lane as driver seriously injured
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/car-into-tree-shrewton-seriously-injured/
BMW driver dies after crashing into a tree near Lincolnshire village
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/bmw-driver-dies-after...
Man, 22, dies after Honda left Lincolnshire road and hit tree
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/man-22-dies-after-hon...
Tempting to say "thank goodness no-one was cycling there", but that's getting to be a self-fulfilling kind of statement.
'My beautiful daughter was killed in a horrific crash... the days that followed will always stick with me'
"The days that followed will remain with her mum Lisa Maddison."
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/my-beautiful-daught...
38 years ago, I won't say a mate, a bloke who came into our sixth form from another school - I didn't know him especially well - smashed his father's car into a tree a couple of hundred yards from the school and was killed. I'd been to funerals for aged relatives, but not for a peer. I can take you to his grave, I can tell you his inscription.
Two boys were killed on their bikes by a driver* not long after I started middle school - they were fourth years, I didn't know either of them; the head did a full-on memorial assembly for them. That's getting on for 50 years ago. In both cases I could take you to the spot where it happened.
* on a wide road, one driver slowed to let them out of a side road, a second driver overtook the first
...slowly and painfully - driver was a German tourist so I do feel a bit sorry for him.
Driver 'in bits' as motorhome gets stuck on narrow Padstow road
They were able to escape but not before burning out the vehicle's clutch
(NB article contains likely driver mobile phone shot)
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/driver-in-bits-motorhome...
Cars damaged in 'hit and run' in North Road, Boscombe
“The car had crashed into the garden wall. It all happened so quick. It was so distressing.”
Another resident said: “I was in my kitchen and then I heard some car squealing noises and then a couple of bumps, and then I saw flashing blue lights.
“I went out and saw the car had gone through my neighbour’s fence and their wall.”
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23814175.cars-damaged-hit-run-nor...
Car ploughs into house in Salisbury as elderly couple rushed to hospital
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/car-ploughs-house-salisbury-elderly-couple/
Man badly injured as car hits several parked vehicles then smashes into house
Police want to speak to the driver of a Skoda taxi
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/man-badly-injured-car-hits...
A bit more premeditated rather than irresponsible. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/moment-driver-stolen-digger-rips-3...
Car smashes into Woodford Green shop window after police chase as driver flees scene
The suspect was not caught, according to police
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/car-smashes-woodford-green-sh...
What extra did they do to move from the most hit bridge to fith in the table?
Is that the silver Fiesta there in street view from 2012?
https://goo.gl/maps/967iQ6VAVK648XeK8
Those pesky cyclists...
Hope the bike's alright.
I see they installed some purely decorative "bollards."
Was the 73yrold just unlucky enough to be walking past when the car crashed into the wall? These autonomous cars are taking the next step and getting patsies to take the blame....
Is this part of Sunak's 'Plan for Drivers', in that he wants more drivers inside these wayward cars, smashing up the place?
Clearly a war on motorists, as reported elsewhere in the cesspit press.
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