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I get that, but it's a tight roundabout, always very busy, and with poor sightlines over who's entering the roundabout (in particular from the entrance/exit onto the forecourt of the terrace that the bus just smashed into).
Meaning that even driving a car not a bus it would always be dangerous to approach that roundabout at more than a few mph. You would expect buses to be more cautious.
Agree that out of service buses are always hooning it dangerously fast
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A follow-up article on the crash (in Notting Hill, in which three people died in their car); don't click if you don't want to see a picture of the burnt-out car:
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I get that, but it's a tight roundabout, always very busy, and with poor sightlines over who's entering the roundabout (in particular from the entrance/exit onto the forecourt of the terrace that the bus just smashed into).
Meaning that even driving a car not a bus it would always be dangerous to approach that roundabout at more than a few mph. You would expect buses to be more cautious.
Oh, I completely agree with all of that. It's entirely possible that the bus driver was speeding (and perhaps, as no passengers were on board, out of service like the W7 in 2001), and we don't really know what happened apart from the mention that they collided with a car before hitting the building. I hope there'll be a fuller description at some point, or some video. As ever, risky behaviour 'works' 99% of the time, and then it doesn't.
I'm just speculating, as I think it's possible that the bus driver was cut off by the car driver. I also think the roundabout should be replaced with a signalised junction.
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Yes, the roundabout is definitely a fossil along with its unmarked pedestrian 'refuge'
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A barber shop in Walthamstow:
Saleem Mohammad, 40, from M S Carpets nearby said: “The car has come through one window and straight out the other side of the shop.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/walthamstow-crash-barbers-paramedics-car-attack-b960550.html
Five injured.
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It's shown here with its shutters down, but you can estimate the driver's trajectory through both windows.
(For some reason, there's another one of the same chain on the other side of the street, but as that only has one window, it must have been this one.)
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“We heard the driver tried to dodge traffic and sped up then lost control.
I saw something similar years ago while cycling on the footpath along Mandela Way.
The drivers on the road had all wedged themselves in so nobody could move and one of them
lost it, I hear an engine revving and suddenly a compact car flew across the path in front of me into the fence. I don't know how he did it but all the wheels left the ground for a moment.
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Bloody hell, sounds as if you got lucky. Link to the site you've shown:
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This says there will be some photographs of old accidents up for auction, I think they'll be in the second auction the first today seems to be old cars by make.
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Are there pictures of motor vehicles crashing into buildings among them, or do you have the wrong thread?
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@Oliver Schick there were a couple with cars having crashed into buildings in the full lots (that wasn't what I was focusing on when I looked at them so can't remember which) - there were 100's more photos than shown online.
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Car driven into basement flats on Noel Road, St Peter's, Islington, in the early hours of this morning, apparently.
https://twitter.com/badgercyclist/status/1455440111865303045
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From a Tweet:
Nobody was badly hurt. I spoke to a nearby resident who was woken by the impact at 0230. 2 persons in car cut out of windscreen by @LFBIslington He was full of praise for them @MPSIslington and @Ldn_Ambulance for their quiet efficiency 👏 @islingtongztte @IslingtonTrib
Just another one where you have to ask: 'How could that happen?'
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Standard write-up of the above which doesn't answer how it could happen:
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Just found a video in which someone assumes brake failure and a Tweet in which a councillor thinks that TfL are the highway authority there--they're not, it's Haringey Council. Apparently, there was another crash into a building in the 1990s. They seem to think it's the 91. The W7 in the 2001 crash was off-route and not in service.