Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Documenting a popular contemporary trend. Needless to say, cars generally crash into buildings all of their own accord, without any involvement of drivers.

Feel free to add:

http://road.cc/content/news/120748-kingston-driver-aimed-car-cyclist-missed-and-crashed-hair-salon

http://www.london24.com/news/london_bus_crashes_into_sainsbury_s_supermarket_in_wandsworth_1_1171559

http://www.london24.com/news/car_crashes_into_wall_in_wood_lane_dagenham_1_1211671

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2014-07-22/runaway-bus-rolls-down-hill-and-smashes-into-house/

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/11350796.Car_crashes_into_Starbucks_in_front_of_horrified_commuters_in_Wimbledon/

http://manchesterconfidential.co.uk/­News/Bus-Crashes-Into-Bulls-Head-Pub-Pic­cadilly

https://standard.co.uk/news/london/ev­acuation-in-upminster-as-lorry-smashes-i­nto-the-front-of-florists-bringing-shop-­front-down-9788303.html

These are the recent ones I could remember.

This thread also includes lorries and buses crashing into bridges, as bridges are buildings.

Only last week http://london.tab.co.uk/2014/10/10/taxi-smashes-into-cruciform-building/

Ah, thanks. I would have been surprised if taxis hadn't been felt left out. :(

A recent highlight

http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2014/aug/police-search-driver-jaguar-car-which-smashed-dartmouth-park-house

Round the corner from my house:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/update_two_people_arrested_after_car_crashes_into_block_of_flats_in_norwich_1_3629571

The passenger kicked off with the old bill and got nicked. You'd think the period after smashing a car into an old peoples' home was one for quiet reflection.

My local pub:

Emergency services at The Golden Star pub in Norwich after a car crashed through the windows.

And this classic:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/young_man_remains_in_a_critical_condition_after_audi_crash_shock_in_carlton_colville_1_1990284

Thanks muchly, spindrift.

I forgot these:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/bike-store-hit-by-another-car-crash-1-6883643

This one qualifies only if you consider an Underground station entrance a building:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2711086/You-t-park-sir-Driver-lucky-escape-car-crashes-entrance-London-underground-station.html

Found this while searching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imyh5dE32bA

More Pubs:
Fox and Hounds Barley:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2400010/Driver-critically-injured-car-ploughed-16th-century-pub-Barley-Hertfordshire.html

Hull:
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Holderness-landlord-Kerry-Wileman-destroyed-pub/story-23084609-detail/story.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585075/A-not-special-delivery-Royal-Mail-lorry-destroys-home-early-morning-crash.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2778106/National-Lottery-watching-couple-s-lucky-escape-Mini-Cooper-car-crashes-Birmingham-house.html

A theme emerging is the passive form in the reporting, all these cars flying into buildings with human involvement barely mentioned.

Fox and Hounds Barley

/csb The first time I ever drove a car I nearly did the same thing to this exact pub, ended up with my front wheels up the kerb and my dad looking a bit pale in the passenger seat.

It was one of my favourite pubs when I was a teenager.

Another one from Norwich, next door to the Golden Star pub above.
It's a straight road. What causes cars to crash into buildings at that point?
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/car_crashes_into_house_in_norwich_city_centre_1_3032226

This was on a straight road too George Michael drove into it when he was trashed.

Meanwhile in Reading:-
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/car-hits-building-after-colliding-7903399

Another repost of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBSAeqdcZAM

and back in July:-
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/southampton-street-car-crash-sounded-7483451

This happened in my hood a couple of years ago. Much excitement.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096179/Porsche-left-balancing-precariously-ledge-smashing-railings-crash.html

How about leaning vans?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/the-moment-van-was-left-leaning-precariously-over-pavement-of-london-high-street-9792660.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G--ub7D38ts

sad news as rogue car claims young mothers' life.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mother-dies-after-being-hit-by-van-as-she-shielded-her-daughter-on-crossing-9794087.html

Slightly tangential to this thread but it's not always 'the cars' that are at fault. Many other things, both animate and inanimate choose to collide with them

(from http://drivetoworkday.org/2014/05/22/please-stop-colliding-with-our-cars/)

You must be new here, or you would know that thread drift is never acceptable on this forum.

Why post it here?

Tangential won't do in this thread. It has to be a proper head-on collision with a building or it doesn't qualify. Oh ...

Follow-up story to the lorry story above:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/florist-closed-early-see-friends-escape-death-lorry-crash-upminster-9794992.html