Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

http://www.sussex.police.uk/whats-happening/latest/news-stories/2015/07/03/operation-dragonfly-woman-four-times-the-limit-smashes-car-into-home

Four times the limit at 11:35AM???!!!

On a Thursday morning. They know how to live in Hastings.

Must have been Hastings East Beers the previous night and she did an owenreed going home.

#seeingeverythingthroughtheprismoftheforum

And the Polish guy in that link who got in the car while pissed to drive 900 feet.

OT sorry, but I knew a bloke vaguely from a pub and I found out he was at home on a Sunday night, drunk, fancied a Chinese so got in the car, clouted a neighbour's garden wall and called his wife to come and get him cos she hadn't been drinking. Neighbour meanwhile phones old bill who turn up and breathalyse the bloke. So, lost licence for a Chinese meal from a place THAT DELIVER. Plus the bloke was a bus driver. Job gone, licence gone. Cost him about thirty grand to go and get a Chinese meal when he was pissed.

Yeah but if they did deliver he would have had to tip them.

Should you tip delivery men?

Have you done that thing where the cops put you inside a lorry to demonstrate how little the driver can see? Exactly, so why did you build the scaffolding in the lorry's blindspot you twits?
All your own fucking fault, stupid scaffolding company:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/residents-evacuated-from-street-in-soho-after-lorry-hits-building-and-leaves-scaffolding-in-precarious-position-10365858.html

I have often seen this thread and wondered whether it was a forum in-joke or maybe metaphorical, but no - it's a thread that lives up to its title.

As someone who worked a local newspaper reporter for many years, I enjoyed it very much. This was my bread and butter.

Standard quotes are 'We were just sitting watching Judge John Deed...' and 'it's a miracle nobody was killed'.

Undoubtedly the 'few casualties' rule doesn't apply to users of powered two-wheelers:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/teenage-moped-rider-seriously-injured-after-crashing-into-building-and-triggering-gas-leak-10366764.html

Walsall:

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/cars-crashing-houses-lot---9276920

Typical that they should blame the trees and not the goits tooling around in overpowered cars...

Quite a serious edition of a regular favourite:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/norwood-bus-crash-seven-injured-as-doubledeckers-roof-is-sliced-off-after-hitting-bridge-in-south-london-10399399.html

Hope none of the injuries are too serious.

I have to admit that it has always struck me as surprising that people on the top deck have usually managed to take evasive action and haven't been too badly injured.

I can't justify creating thread for tractors filling houses with muck, so I'll post this here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-33669027

^ @danstuff will confirm, but I believe that is considered good luck in the fens. The family who live in the house will now have an excellent potato crop for the next 7 years.

Lucky bastards. With that much muck they'll be able to grow sugar beet, never mind spuds.

There's a report in here of a double-decker bridge hit in 1980:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/30/naked-almost-dead-festival-horror-stories

‘We hit the bridge so hard we had momentum to come out the other side’ (Monsters of Rock, 1980)

At school, I was voted “most likely to be killed on the road before the age of 16”. It was a prophecy that came mighty close to being fulfilled. On the way to Monsters of Rock, aged 15, we were put on special shuttle buses, running every 20 minutes, from Nottingham to Donington. Ours was half-full. Sixty thousand rock fans made the best of some iffy event organisation and enjoyed the day; Rainbow playing Stargazer overcame the disappointment of Graham Bonnet’s on-stage resignation meltdown announcement.

But then the fun started. All those buses out from Nottingham to Donington, but only one to go back in among the unlit muddy scrum. I managed to get on a double-decker, but it was massively overcrowded. Having been up since 6am, I dozed off. When I woke up, I looked out of the front of the bus and slowly realised that all I could see was a railway bridge. Not under, over or round it, just the solid-looking steel and stone of … A BRIDGE! Needless to say, I ducked. We hit the bridge so hard and so fast we had enough momentum to come out the other side. Roof, windows and frames were all gone and I had glass stuck in my head for 18 months afterwards. Miraculously, no one was killed. 1981? We went by car!

Richard, Queensbury

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/family-narrowly-escape-death-after-porsche-ploughs-into-their-east-london-home-and-drives-away-a2476936.html

Textbook. Follow-up story:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/restaurant-boss-how-my-family-narrowly-escaped-death-when-porsche-hit-our-house-a2486711.html

crime-fam­ily-narrowly-escape-death

Is how I read that.

Amazing now this thread has pointed out out, but all these articles are written so it looks like the vehicles just crashed themselves, like some kind of Ai

Self driving cars thread >>>>>>>

Here a driver reversed into a shopfront, hitting a pedestrian and trapping her under the car, in Oxford:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/watch-the-incredible-moment-dozens-of-people-lift-a-car-after-collision-to-free-a-trapped-cyclist-a2918116.html

Another bridge hit:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/trains-suspended-after-another-halfords-we-fit-lorry-becomes-stuck-under-bridge-in-south-east-london-a2918956.html

Are bridges buildings?

Also, that previous one is about a car running over a cyclist. I think you're corrupting your own thread Oliver.