Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Talking of Thames Valley police:
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/oxford-road-crash-driver-lisa-9278044

Only 16 months? (with the possibility of reduction to 12) That is utterly perverse. When will the legal system remember that driving is a licensed privilege, not a right?

Preaching to the choir, I know...

And again in Reading. This time a Smart car meets an estate agents.
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/car-crashes-lower-earley-estate-9287075

That report was doing so well until it completely unnecessarily mentioned that a man was driving the car, just one sentence before we could have concluded safely that the car had driven itself.

@MENnewsdesk Lucky escape for this driver as lorry rolls down hill & into Wythenshawe hospital building http://t.co/dWqpROcMRU http://t.co/gWREwxdJA2

Link to Tweet: https://twitter.com/MENnewsdesk/status/601473038337462272

This one gets done at least twice a year. I think they've only just fixed it after the last one...

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/bromley/12965498.UPDATE__Road_closed_and_trains_cancelled_until_at_least_8pm_after_lorry_strikes_Beckenham_bridge/?ref=rss

This was october....

Take it back - it's a different one: I'm getting my Eden Parks and Elmers Ends confused.

Why is the licence plate pixelated in the photos, does anyone know?

I'd say if you've just driven your Porsche through the window of Cafe Nero you deserve to be named and shamed, no?

I'd imagine it is to do with the cars driving themselves and so the "driver" would be innocent until proven guilty no matter how damning the photo is.

Insiders view

buildings shmuildings. try italian motoring journalists!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8nnhUCtcO8

'Not thought to be suspicious'

http://rdrf.org.uk/2015/05/22/not-thought-to-be-suspicious-what-makes-the-society-we-live-in-nothing-less-than-fundamentally-uncivilised/

Then after a few weeks off the bike, on maternity leave, quick ride out, shaky legs, nil sleep, straight into this bollocks! WTF is wrong with people?
Suppose its not really a building......

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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/car-crashes-into-vegan-market-stall-after-post-office-robbery-police-chase-in-south-london-10275663.html

just like in the movies!

Pfft I had seen something just like that out of my office window earlier today.

Insiders view

'Can I get a chai latte to go please'

Thanks, spindrift--do post links. This one is here:

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2012-09-17/car-smashes-into-epsom-couples-bedroom/

It happened in 2012. The car seems to have used another car to play leapfrog. I'd initially thought it may have come off an elevated road next to the house, but no. Those cars certainly get up to strange things.

BBC You and Yours NEED to do a show about this.

It turns out that Image Search is pretty good for this topic.

2nd April, 2012, Coventry:

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/crash-terror-car-ploughs-baginton-3025803

26th April 2015, Margate:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-32472168

And further afield:

31st January 2013, Spokane:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/jan/31/fleeing-driver-crashes-north-spokane-home/

29th March 2013, Provo, Utah:

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/heraldextra.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/b/97/b970f580-9888-11e2-9cbb-001a4bcf887a/5155b8d9dae96.preview-620.jpg

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/provo/photos-car-crashes-into-house-in-provo/collection_fb1f4626-9888-11e2-976a-001a4bcf887a.html#0

23rd April 2015, Tampa Bay:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/accidents/car-crashes-into-town-8217n-country-house/2226812

10th May 2015, New Hampshire:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/10/allegedly-drunk-driver-crashes-into-nh-home-injures-man-on-porch/

Just a more or less random selection based on search results. I want to understand these crashes better.

I want to understand these crashes better.

Accidents, Oliver, Accidents.

Oopsie I just drove my heavy machinery in to your yard. #yolo

And, very sadly, and unusually for these crashes, there was a death in Mangere, New Zealand, when the car's teenage driver died. For obvious reasons, I'm not copying the picture across.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9264535/One-dead-after-car-hits-house

The vast majority of crashes in which motor vehicles hit buildings at worst seem to result in light injury to persons, with the lion's share of the damage absorbed by the structure. Motor vehicles don't generally seem to be strong enough/have enough momentum or mass to cause a building to collapse. I suppose we don't see many goods vehicles crashing into buildings, though.

jet fuel can't melt steal beams

Police have said they are investigating what caused a BMW to crash into the front of a house

hmmm... going out on a limb here, but i reckon 'the driver' would be a neato place to start.

http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Police-investigating-cause-latest-crash-Lansdown/story-26596973-detail/story.html