Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Ham gate, Richmond park.. no words, but anything less than a royal execution would be outrageous 🙃

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That must've been going apace.

My uneducated guess is that the vehicle was travelling in excess of the 20mph speed limit...

Is that today?

That'll be a very very very expensive one for the insurance company. Trying to get into the park whilst blitzed?

It didn't take it very long to stop, but then the mass of a locked iron gate is, I would imagine, substantial.

Is that today?

Yes, though not my pictures and local reports saying..

Royal Park Police said the incident "occurred in the early hours of this morning when the park gates were closed to vehicles

That, and the unplanned separation of the engine.

If the driver was blitzed, will the insurers cough?

That's quite some 'driving' to take out the ornate street light on the opposite side of the road.

Not just an ornate light - it was the gate post, so had to be substantial enough to support the gate (which itself ended up 20-25m down the road!)

Blimey! I hadn't noticed that.

Black gate, at night, with no lights or hi viz? Asking for it.

Black gate, at night

Sheppard's delight

I hope not.
I don’t know traffic law in UK but drunk driving in Canada is a criminal offence and insurers consider that a disqualification.

Near the Lammas park crossing on Northfields

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nice effort in North Greenwich

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Likely a few hundred K for the gates.

On our street only bit of surviving original garden railing that wasn't carted away in the 40's got bent over and cracked all the stone work by a cable fibre fitting contractor. At the time it was all 'we're sorry about that, will get it fixed for you all'
IN time turned into 'no we didn't'
Eventually spotted them a few weeks back literally just putting some filler in the cracked stones and calling it a day. Quote from black smith and stone mason was well over £20k, maybe even £30k to remediate. Homeowner I suspect was strong armed into 'accepting' the bit of filler in the cracked stones as the contractor are proper dodgey.

Saw this one last week. I was impressed how they managed to get the car in there without touching the road name sign

I was wondering about that, maybe they moved the car after the accident?

I went past on the bus just after it happened, police in attendance etc and the car was exactly where it sits in your picture so I reckon that's just where it ended up from the crash. Presumably it just hit the corner and the back end spun into the gap

That's pretty much what I surmised - I tried to find the location on street view to check out the angles, but I gave up cos ICBA an I needed a lie down.

Not many buildings in here of late (railings and walls, but as before, I think this has long become the 'drivers crashing into just about anything' thread--here's at least a large brick structure in another bridge strike:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/road-blocked-lorry-hits-bridge-overturns-east-london-redbridge-fairlop-b1100221.html

It is still amazing how these keep happening so frequently.

Sudbury:

https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/sudbury/news/town-centre-store-closed-after-car-smashes-into-building-9326017/

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23749374.hastings-sussex-police-arrest-two-cars-crash-shop-windows/?ref=socialflow