Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Security shop is not traffic secure, deservedly suffers the consequences.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/jaguar-smashes-into-shop-after-elderly-driver-suffers-blackout-at-wheel-a3181711.html

Well, you get what you ask for if you write 'RAM' on the front of the building.

But seriously, this is another one that could well have been worse and it is very fortunate that nobody was injured.

Does this count? Driver probably would have hit the building were it not for the scaffolding.... Imagine the chaos if all that had tumbled...

No one hurt

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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/stolen-northern-ireland-fire-engine-ploughs-into-cars-and-houses-a3196411.html

I don't encourage it, but if you'd been to Larne, you'd know.

Motor vehicles crashing into structures ...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/cursed-tulse-hill-bridge-hit-by-lorry-for-16th-time-in-just-six-months-a3206601.html

I thought it was worth posting because of the frequency of the strikes.

it's because the bridge is 'cursed', oliver, it says so right there in black and white.

Motor vehicles crashing into nothing.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/london-drivers-sit-in-traffic-jams-for-nearly-a-week-each-year-a3208791.html

It's truly mindboggling. I see the same people sitting in their same cars in the same place every morning, going nowhere.
One day I must ask them. Why, just why?

Nobody gets stuck in traffic, they just become part of it.

Part roll over, part crash into shop.

https://twitter.com/FredBikeLondon/status/714491682323054593

neither. it's a flying car.

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Ouch. A hit-and-run, no less.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/enfield-crash-neighbour-describes-huge-bang-as-bmw-ploughs-into-house-a3217001.html

#SurpriseItsaBMW

http://stv.tv/news/uk/1350902-in-pictures-ferrari-crashes-into-house-in-burnley/

Guy is obviously a total twat as per the quotes.

Happened in Luton as well recently. Same situation. Twat hires car well above his driving capabilities to show off and promptly writes it off

The other day, I also saw the damage caused to the house on the corner of Jubilee Street and Adelina Grove, E1, in this crash (as posted earlier):

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

Eight months on, the damage has still not been repaired.

http://m.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/14449449.BMW_badly_damaged_in_crash_with_bus_stop_at_Chalker_s_Corner/

LOW BRIDGE!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36200939

Just realised it's the same "cursed" bridge as linked above by @Oliver Schick. Poor bridge.

Bit late to respond to this, but the "Wedding Crasher" headline gave me a chuckle.

These happen all the time, but I haven't been posting them in here since Fox protested that they were only structures. Well, at least some are. :) (I still haven't managed to persuade myself to start a separate bridge hit thread.)

Here's another one, from yesterday, also on the South Circular, but in Kew:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/residents-voice-safety-fears-after-lorry-smashes-into-bridge-in-kew-a3239271.html

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/14467729.Lorry_crashes_into_Mortlake_Road_bridge_in_Kew_causing_long__delays_on_South_Circular/

Forgot to post this one the other day.

http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Car-collides-house-leaving-unsafe-Church-Road/story-29211895-detail/story.html

Fatality on this one. RIP.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/live-altrincham-crash-one-dead-11298414

Very sad. For some reason, crashes against walls tend to come off worse than crashes into buildings. Perhaps it's because when people see buildings they have more time to brake, whereas the impact speed against walls may be greater.