Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Thanks, it's always good to stress that one should speak of the drivers, not the cars:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/258761/

Here's the main BBC article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-56872136

The injury sounds horrific--her skull was broken into three pieces. There are numerous indicators along that street that it's a location for speeding--just look at the defences on this evidently rather old piece of filtering:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6458117,-1.0706534,3a,75y,309.99h,79.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssAfmjEeEAFDu4txTP4DyHw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I'd guess that drivers tried to rat-run along there even after it was initially filtered, which is why those additional barriers were built. Drivers may also have taken that corner at speed, perhaps to rat-run through to the junction of Lower Keyham Lane, Humberstone Drive, and Gipsy Lane. With this isolated filter, the rat run has now probably been relocated to Steins Lane and Main Street.

Next to it is a new-looking house, plus adjacent garden walls (its own and the neighbouring house's), that turns its back on the street completely:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6458482,-1.0706074,3a,75y,354.01h,81.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgn4VlsEvtxQjnkWYXv4XiA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

The street opposite (Abbots Road South) is also filtered at the junction.

Also, damage to buildings has happened many times before:

Mr Thathyala said: "A neighbour told me this happened to the same house a few years ago. Exactly the same situation, same house.

"This is a busy road and at night - when it is quiet people speed down here.

"This is not safe for anybody. There needs to be some safety measures."

Resident Moira Hampton said: "This may be the eighth time or more this bend on the ring road has contributed to damaging properties.

"Cars have driven off both sides of the road. This is the first time such a serious injury has happened.

And (picture caption):

Residents blame the crashes on a sharp bend on Hungarton Boulevard, which forms part of Leicester's ring road

I imagine that caption would have been added by a sub; the bend isn't sharp at all, but at excessive speed bends obviously become sharper.

You get the usual gamut of reaction--from Claudia Webbe, the local MP, the usual call that 'the road must be made safer', when it's driver behaviour that's at issue, which requires much more fundamental intervention.

I hope the victim recovers fully, although you do wonder if she even can. :(