Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

It’s time to limit the horsepower a car can produce.
SUV’s and pickup trucks with 700hp are common now. They appeal to the exact type of jackass who should not be allowed anywhere near one.

We had the opportunity to fit speed limiters to all new cars like the EU is doing but Brexit means Brexit

Hostile vehicle mitigation barriers for all, paid for by manufacturers of new vehicles.

Bigger wheels find standard kerbs no impediment to progress.

local school jibber-jabber suggests heart attack or similar sudden debilitating illness

SMIDSY

Sorry mate, I didn't see youths...

A schoolgirl has died, utterly tragic.

I still can’t understand how this can happen accidentally.
I ride past that place quite regularly.
Thoughts with families, children and staff affected.

Driver arrested now. Probably get 2 years suspended sentence

Not thought to be terrorism-related.

So the driver is white then.

Don't forget the 6 month driving ban. Life is cheap.

Reminds me of what happened in Berlin in 2019.
Porsche SUV driver allegedly had an epileptic fit and killed 4 people on the sidewalk.
I think he got a suspended sentence of 2 years.

Was the fit anticipated? If so, what is an epilepsy sufferer doing with a driving licence?

This is an interesting one - the defence of “automatism” is getting harder to apply, thankfully, and claimants should in cases like that be able to get medical records produced in evidence to show that the medical condition was known about, and even that the defendant has deliberately failed to disclose it to the DVLA.

https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article234595867/SUV-Prozess-Fahrer-bekommt-zwei-Jahre-auf-Bewaehrung.html
Should work with translate.

Yes, definitely anticipated.
I don't know, he had to drive his Porsche because there are no other ways to go to a restaurant in Berlin?
He had a major fit in Mai, a tumor was removed in August.
As I understand it he could have been banned from driving for a year because of the epilepsy, but wasn't warned enough/banned and decided to drive his Macan turbo anyway.
He killed a young male couple in their late twenties, a 4 year old kid and the kids 64 year old grandmother.
Going over 100 kmph in a city street.
2 years probation, 2 years driving ban, 15000€ paid to a (questionable) pedestrian charity.
Yes, it's that fucked up here in Germany.

Makes me so angry.
I hope the injured people from the schoolyard in London recover.

We have a system inside our plant that acts as a safety for all motorised equipment.
We have seven large forklifts and five smaller ones. Each has a bluetooth transmitter. There are also lots of million dollar machines that we don’t want anyone smashing into. A vehicle asset control system monitors the location of all motorised equipment at all times. The system stops them from going in off-limits areas.
It can slow them down (turtle mode) in high risk areas.
If the machine senses an impact it is locked. An employee cannot hit something and drive away - this is a real problem in warehouses and places like Lowe’s, Costco or Home Depot.
These are things that could be done in urban areas.
If a car hits 100kph it gets shut down.
If it goes on a sidewalk it gets shut down.

m8 there are people who oppose school streets out of minor inconvenience. The addiction to cars is unreal and cannot be made sense with, i really hope gen z drives the car economy into the ground

the judge and the jury at this future trial would have driven there and would easily put themselves in the drivers shoes and buy into ‘it was an accident’

not everything is depressing and negative though, i saw their local councillor tweeting thoughts and prayers

No one gives a shit about being forced to do something slightly slower or more carefully on their employer's time.

Never was there a more easily and frequently miss-applied word than ‘accident’.
There is nothing accidental about the consequences of reckless, selfish behaviour.

Imagine if cars could only do the speed limit in towns.
No one would have fun anymore!

imagine if cars could only do the speed limit everywhere 🤯

How would I accelerate out of danger when I've tried to overtake on a blind bend and someone comes round the corner?

Not thought to be terrorism-related.

So the driver is white then

I thought this too. A non white male doing this atrocity would have the right wing press speculating.

Does stink of the casual lenience offered to tragic driving crimes including ploughing into a bunch of young people.

Good point about banning all motors outside schools

accelerate out of danger

You hear this quite a bit in the traditional motoring world, has anyone ever challenged this as a bat shit crazy old thing to suggest? I don’t get in what situation powerful acceleration is somehow safer. Just go slower and read the road ahead properly in the first place.