Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

This one seems to have slipped under the radar:

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/fire-damages-blackstock-road-shop-after-car-crashes-into-it-1-5156636

The occupants of the car all suffered head injuries

quite irresponsible of them not to be wearing helmets

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/03/four-injured-as-car-smashes-into-lounge-of-house-in-york

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/audi-crash-destroys-kitchen-offerton-13599060.amp

Wow. There don't seem to be too many hit-and-runs when drivers hit buildings, but you can see that it's every bit as irresponsible as with other crashes.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/doubledecker-bus-ploughs-into-renzo-piano-building-in-covent-garden-a3637946.html

It's amazing the driver escaped uninjured.

It's a strange crash on the face of it, as Earnshaw Street is one-way northbound (and St Giles High Street, from which the driver would have turned, is one-way westbound, so that there is only one direction he could have come from) and you'd expect a driver who lost control to crash into the building opposite rather than making a turn of more than 90 degrees.

The pillar he slammed into was one supporting a slight overhang outside the café, so technically that was part of the building, if not a full-on crash against the façade.

I find this interesting because vehicles (although I don't know about buses) seem to have become optimised to protect against a crash into a façade but not into trees or pillars, so either this crash wasn't very high-speed (it does look like bad damage to the bus) or the bus is constructed differently (which seems fairly obvious) and does actually protect against this type of crash quite well.

building rams into the back of motorized vehicle.

You wait for ages for a bus to crash into your building ...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/double-decker-bus-ploughs-into-west-end-building-eight-days-after-identical-crash-a3643437.html

It's always terrifying when a vehicle is driven onto the footway, so again very lucky that no-one was hurt.

This time, the cause of the crash was apparently a collision with a black cab, which would explain why the driver veered off in this direction. Still no word on whether the last crash there was similar in that respect.

At this rate, TfL will replace the 'New Routemaster' fleet quite soon.

Forum meet up at the repaired Pod Cafe?
It can't happen a 3rd time, can it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTqz4duPdYQ

Van crashes into Maulden thatched cottage front door - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-41580280

Lorry decides to destroy 700 year old building... http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/york-s-oldest-wooden-building-now-classed-as-at-risk-1-8825886

Based on this I need to immediately sell my silver /grey volvo (the most accident prone car in the UK if I'm reading that diagram right) and buy my old yellow fiat back, much safer...

Although over last three years, that volvo has been hit by other cars when parked at least 20 times now. Never before had a car that attracts people who cannot Park like that one does.

This would never have happened if the stupid old building was wearing high-vis.

Vehicles hitting (largely) structures:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/10-lorries-expected-to-hit-low-bridges-every-day-in-november-as-bridge-strikes-reach-their-peak-a3668096.html

Two injuries to passing pedestrians here, one serious:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/dramatic-moment-car-smashes-into-edgware-road-restaurant-narrowly-missing-diners-a3714301.html

Merc this morning on Bayswater and Sussex Gardens. Dunno how it happened but it ended up nose down in the front of someone's basement flat.

There's about 20 people taking photos of it so 3..2..1...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mercedes-driver-ploughs-through-railings-and-wedges-car-in-basement-a3720186.html

That's the one! Still there this morning.

“He wasn’t going crazy over the speed limit and wasn’t being chased, he just never made the turn.”

Uh huh.

so drunk / off tits, then?

"suspicion of drink driving"

I can imagine how it happened.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Lancaster+Gate+Hotel/@51.511776,-0.1762423,133m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x487605539e8b83ab:0x22bfae4c3b0964d6!8m2!3d51.5114736!4d-0.1820495?hl=en

"This RWD sporty little number seemed like a good idea at the time... if only I knew how to drive it"