• As I've probably said before, when I started this thread I had no idea it happened this often. Here it's clearly very lucky that no-one was injured and that the upper floor didn't collapse. You can see how he hit the house corner-on (are houses more 'vulnerable' when hit there?) and evidently ploughed into the room behind. As ever, the improvements in vehicle construction are probably largely responsible for the fact that the driver doesn't seem to have been injured, either, although it would have been a different story had the house collapsed on top of the car.

    I think this must be the house:

    https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4751353,0.3151872,3a,75y,79.78h,96.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5GRw4a-M2BeSzkarrI0NAQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

    He must have hit the young tree in front of the house first, although whether that slowed the impact speed significantly I have no idea. A pattern that we've seen in many such crashes is that they often happen where there are curves, even quite gentle ones. Argent Street is built to be quite curvy, as in many modern developments, to make it look less 'planned'.

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