Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Terrifying and unbelievably unexpected.
Awful for the woman.
Two and a half years for condemning someone to a lifetime of pain doesn't balance for me.
She seems bloody minded though, which is good.

A structure, but I thought it was worth posting just for the picture:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/pictured-roof-ripped-off-rail-replacement-bus-after-it-hit-railway-bridge-a3539081.html

@greenhell just posted this elsewhere. I couldn't find a web reference for it yet:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13636401/

He says the pub is the Blue Posts. Which Blue Posts is probably one for the BToBers. :)

This is slightly off-topic, too, a tragedy in Greece in which a train crashed through a house:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/14/greece-train-derailment-in-leaves-dead-injured-house

courtesy of shit london.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ealing-crash-drinkers-lucky-to-be-alive-after-lorry-ploughs-into-west-london-bar-a3554946.html

CCTV video:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ealing-crash-terrifying-moment-drinkers-flee-as-lorry-ploughs-into-west-london-bar-a3555796.html

That's gotta be some of the slowest ploughing/careering I've ever seen.

As posted by WjPrince in the gifs thread:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13676890/

At first I was thinking cunt Kudos for just making a gap but then they come back into shot and all is not well.
Presumably some kind of medical issue behind the wheel? Or a dog tried to drive.

A death happened in this one, which seems very unusual for a crash into a building--a police chase may have been a contributory cause, but there may well be other reasons why the driver fled from police.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/kensington-crash-car-ploughs-through-railings-and-into-basement-in-horror-crash-a3561871.html

More on this awful crash--warning, contains very distressing reading:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/my-brothers-in-there-woman-describes-horror-scenes-as-man-dies-when-car-smashes-into-her-house-a3561936.html

Lufguss international edition.
No serious injuries.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-40476901

Fortunately nobody was seriously injured -on Google maps it looks like a long straight road.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-40476901

I bet they weren't sticking to the speed limit. Just a guess

I trust McLaren will issue an instant recall on this model, considering its potential to career off a straight road without warning.

Another case of "car hits building". Absolutely nothing to do with the driver.

If you're going to crash into a building, you might as well do it properly.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/car-spirals-out-of-control-and-careers-through-roof-in-freak-missouri-crash-a3589521.html

However, this meant that the driver was critically injured, by the impact from below, it seems. Most of the crashes in which drivers hit walls head-on tend to result in few injuries to the vehicle occupants because they have been engineered against, but that hasn't been done for vehicles falling from a height, undoubtedly because crashes like that are very rare. Best wishes to the driver for his recovery.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/st-helens-road-bolton-crash-13358194

Very interesting, I don't think we've had anything like that before--a driver ploughs into a wall and that sends a gatepost flying through a window. I don't think that really counts as crashing into a building, but it's certainly creative. I don't want to be flippant about it, I do feel for the poor people who had their house ruined.

Another crash in which a driver ploughs through railings outside a building surrounded by lightwells but doesn't quite reach the building:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/huge-bang-as-driver-forces-moped-off-road-before-driving-35k-car-into-flat-a3587656.html

Another lucky escape, this time for the rider of the scooter hit by the driver.

Police have charged the bus driver and his employers:

http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/latest_news/bus-driver-charged-following-fatal-/

That's unusual.

A CPS spokesperson said: "Today (24 July), the CPS has authorised West
Midlands Police to bring charges in relation to a fatal collision
involving a bus in Coventry on 3 October 2015.

"Bus driver Kailash Chander, 79, has been charged with two counts of
causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious
injury by dangerous driving.

"Mr Chander's employer, Midland Red (South) Limited, has been charged
with two offences under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.

So he was 77 and still working as a professional driver?!

Two years to decide to prosecute?