Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Jeez, that must have been horrifying for the people inside.

Hair raising.

No idea how that could have happened. Maybe someone went in the wrong direction with a car parked outside? Obviously, excessive speed on the street that goes past it is always a possibility.

While, as we have seen, occupants of cars that are driven into buildings are hurt only very rarely, when there are people in the path of the car inside, it's a different story, so it sounds as if they got lucky.

Also a classic case of an article in which the driver isn't mentioned even once. It's always 'car'.

As I may have said before, when I started this thread I had no idea just how often this happens. I mean, there have been lulls, when nobody on here has come across an article, but it really does seem to happen all the time, even just in the UK.

'A CAR crashed into the front of a Bournemouth hairdressers'
'The silver car went through the front of The Hair Studio'
Sigh..

Did actually spot one locally in Glasgow news the other day that was correct, 'something something driver lost control of their vehicle and collided with insert type of building', need rep buttons for media outlets.

There are those people who think freedom of religion means freedom to practice their religion.

In Beachwood, Ohio, a 31-year-old woman accompanied by her 11-year-old daughter was driving at 100mph when she decided to "let go and let God take the wheel," according to her statement to police. God then smashed into a car, spun into a utility pole, hit another car, and finally crashed into a house.

Link with video.
Source for text above.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/man-dies-after-car-crashes-21081350

Woah they brough that pub back to life? Been an empty mess for donkies, I guess there is enough new money around in the flats to be worth opening again.
Always the passengers that seem to suffer the worst isn't it?
Had a friend from school die from injuries following a crash, driver was high (and generally known for being a twat), she was in the back with kid (18 months I think), kid survived but they unfortunately did not, age around 21, very friendly outgoing human being. Driver was in court for various offenses inc obviously death by dangerous driving but for some reason I remember them not receiving a custodial sentence. Pretty much every time I go to that town I still see that guy, still a twat.

Fuck, that sounds harsh.

I guess they were about to bring it back, first I'd heard of it TBH but yeah, there's loads of people living nearby now, or loads of flats at least.

Two separate estate agents' shops crashed into in Brockley Road in a matter of months, one twice.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/brockley-residents-say-its-only-20876429

Bryan & Keegan's is on the stretch of Brockley Road in Crofton Park that has seen a nice streetscape scheme installed, but it's much too short to be effective. It should be extended in both directions from the pedestrian crossing it surrounds, as features like this need to be longer to be more noticeable. There's always someone who speeds and doesn't know the area. (I've often seen people speeding there late at night. I'm sure they speed at other times, too, but obviously less when it's busier.) It's a really good stretch of high street and I hope they give it more TLC.

Acorn Estate Agents is on that atrociously badly-laid out roundabout junction of Brockley Road and Brockley Grove, which not only has appalling road surface at the moment but I've also seen poor driver behaviour there on a regular basis. It's one of those junctions undoubtedly laid out in the time of the horse and cart, probably with a watering trough, where horse-drawn vehicles could be turned around. When mass motorisation hit, many of these junctions, often with fairly odd layouts, became crash magnets because of unclear priority and too much space to drive badly in, and many were converted to roundabouts.

What needs to happen here is for the spearpoint junction of Brockley Grove to be closed and the junction moved to meet Brockley Road at right angles between Rosie's Flower Shop and the hut that Acorn Estate Agents is currently in. This would make for much more controlled turning behaviour.

When WRC goes wrong

“Two estate agents have been the unfortunate sites of three car crashes which have occurred months apart from each other - and residents are calling it an 'epidemic'.”
I’m guessing the journalist doesn’t like the use of “epidemic”, they do go on to use “break” rather than “brake”.

Hope no one is planning a trip to Argos Tottenham Court Road (not my photo)

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-58402488

"Network Rail said the Tesco truck was wedged for more than 24 hours before being removed on Tuesday afternoon."

ok - not a building per-se...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58555703

Notting Hill crash: Three dead after car hits block of flats and catches fire

RIP

Horrendous. The building is the one on the north-east corner of the junction of Great Western Road and Woodfield Road. It looks as if it's mainly the fence-topped low wall surrounding the house that was hit, not the building itself.

The Standard has more graphic details and witness statements, which suggest that the victims were the occupants of the car. Warning: Absolutely sickening to read, as the car turned into a death trap.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/westminster-road-crash-great-western-road-three-killed-metropolitan-police-b955163.html

Barcelona, could have been nasty:

https://twitter.com/324cat/status/1439279761050718211

Bus driver hits car then house, in double decker.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58585495

(Ad-libbed the title)

My guess would be that this crash was related to the roundabout just outside those houses.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5823245,-0.1191947,3a,75y,13.94h,92.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seS24NtcGK0eum7dh5bAxpw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Good that there were no injuries.

It's a tight roundabout and buses especially always have to travel very slowly round it. Extraordinary that a bus could have been going at enough speed to go straight through the wall

Bus has mounted the pavement and travelled more than a full bus length afterwards. Bus driver surely has to be arrested

It doesn't take that much speed. The bus driver was probably trying not to hit a driver cutting across his path, tore at the wheel, and this is what happened. There's not a lot of distance to react and brake properly, but it could be that he or she scrubbed off just enough speed to avoid causing very serious damage to the houses (hopefully). He or she also seems to have hit the join between the houses, so perhaps that resisted better, too. There should be at least one follow-up article in the local paper, so perhaps they'll describe what happened in more detail. There should also be CCTV, and definitely something from the bus cameras.

Anyroadup, it was undoubtedly caused in part by the rubbish junction layout. If this gave an impetus to get rid of the roundabout, some good may come of it.

Crazily it is not the first time buses on this roundabout have destroyed buildings. Having cycled and driven round this roundabout many times I agree it's not great but I think there's no excuses whatsoever for smashing into the buildings

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Just to explain what the problem is with this roundabout and why the bus drivers may be less to blame than you think.

If there's a raised central island in a roundabout this small, there's nowhere for drivers to go if they're cut off except off the roundabout, because were they to hit the island, the vehicle could topple over, and as reacting is a matter of instants, drivers will seek to steer somewhere where any obstacles are further away. Were this a mini-roundabout (it should be a standard junction, but if it had to be a roundabout, it should be a mini-roundabout, as it's way too small for a 'full' (i.e., 'high island' roundabout)), they could conceivably steer the other way, i.e. through the centre of the junction, where they might just miss a driver cutting across them but would have more time to react and more of a chance to avoid buildings.

I have no doubt that this earlier crash (which judging by the look of the bus would be about 20 years ago? ah yes, 2001: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1446813.stm) would have followed a similar pattern as the one that just happened. I may be wrong, of course.