Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

building - a structure with roof and walls

I can bivvy under that bridge because it has a roof and it has walls, so building it is (albeit a little breezier than a bus stop).
Thanks OED.

The OED says a bridge is "A structure carrying a road, path, railway, etc. across a river, road, or other obstacle."

Also, a bridge doesn't need to have walls. E.g. the Millau Viaduct - no walls. Nobody could conceivably call the Millau Viaduct a building, therefore.

This one does though.

In fact it looks so comfortable, I'm now going to refer to anything in this thread I can sleep in or under a 'house'.

I'd always taken the purpose of the thread as a place to gather and point and laugh at motorists who crash into inanimate objects other than other vehicles. Could the term 'Building' also refer to something which has required the action of building and therefore walls, lamp posts, bus shelters, bridges etc would all be covered.

But unfortunately this would exclude one of my favourite genres of motor vehicle crash. Motorist into tree.. perhaps you could describe nature as building a tree, its a bit like growing ...ish.

Ft. Live Updates

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/home-bargains-crash-ashton-live-14966052.amp

Home Bargains might be breaking the "all publicity is good publicity" rule this week

This does make you wonder what his motive was, perhaps a perception of poor treatment by the building firm?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/13/man-accused-of-using-digger-to-wreck-new-homes-hertfordshire

You think?

I'd assumed it was just another builder/interior designer argument that had got out of hand.

Truck with some sort of hydraulic arm has crashed into the raised walkway outside Barbican this morning- cut a good chunk out of it too. Bit of a pain as I walk across it every day.

Not sure if this was crashing into the building or just pulling the cash machine out--probably a bit of both:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/18/stolen-tractor-used-to-rip-cash-machine-off-dorset-shop-wall-beaminster

In Regent Street, incredibly--apparently after a police chase:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/regent-street-crash-four-people-injured-after-car-mows-down-pedestrian-in-central-london-during-a3920776.html

This has just happened to my local, guess I'll be going somewhere else for a pint tonight.

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Or you could still go there and get LOADS of free beer. Then blame it on the driver and leaking lines...

They have just posted on Facebook that they are still open and there's 20% off the beer 😀
See ya 🏃

Sorry to see that. Where is it?

Wow. How can they still be open? Looks pretty good unsafe

More open than usual, I’d say

New smoking lounge with semi-alfresco dining and views over the carpark.

#rep

In the Strand:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bus-smashes-into-restaurant-claiming-to-be-the-only-one-to-survive-the-great-fire-of-london-a3929621.html

Damn I love that building

Rogue cars again
Car crashes through glass window at Westfield Stratford - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45459564

Driving is difficult - these cars are unpredictable.

"The white people carrier". Hence why it wasn't a terrorist act.