Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

A late-night crash, apparently last night around 2am, on the A10 Stoke Newington High Street. One of the cars seems to have crashed into a shopfront. As the other one seems to have come to a stop on the other side of the street, facing against the one-way direction, it looks as if the crash caused the drivers to lose control.

Two people were injured, presumably the drivers.

https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/23785602.live-a10-stamford-hill-shut-two-people-injured-crash/

This looks very deliberate, perhaps a personal feud?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/30/mucky-duck-restaurant-digger-nottinghamshire-police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66970292

A driver is facing multiple charges including terrorism after driving his car through a wall into a police station in the US state of New Jersey.

Officers say he ploughed into their staff room whilst blaring out the song Welcome to the Jungle on his car stereo.

Reminds me of (man drives digger into own pub after staff won't serve him):

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/6582221.pub-bulldozed-owner/

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/breaking-police-fire-crews-called-27918390

Sounds nasty. Hope injuries are less severe than they sound.

I was working above there last week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-67132345

Tragic outcome, sadly.

Rest peacefully, Mena.

Oh no. RIP, Mena.

Still made the pot:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-67708784

Ha! Well after it hit too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-67762440

'Car flips and narrowly misses woman with child'

WTF?

bloody cyclists!

at this point it is unbelievable that whoever missed killing the pedestrian

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-67822316

"I know they hit both the electrics and the gas supplies because the gas man came round on Christmas Day and told me to leave my house. So I went to the pub for a while."

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'.

Cycling through Hyde park today and part of the bridge wall over the serpentine is missing and skids marks showing where something has lost control flipping over the cycle lane. Can't find anything about it..

Another day in paradise.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-68065924

"Dramatic footage shows moment car smashes into café window in Italy"

luckily only minor injuries reported - incredibly fortunate

Red Bull Audi Dakar rally advert is a very good fit.

Obviously that's a massive impact, but for such a big vehicle going at over 100kph, that seems a lot smaller than I'd expect.

Also, isn't that a betting shop as opposed to a cafe? Granted, kind of irrelevant to the story, but seems an odd term to use (maybe Italian betting shops have full on coffee setups, I may just be ignorant here!)

I noticed that in the article as well. Absolutely no way it was doing 70mph when it hit the building.

It's here:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@45.0139619,7.6526865,3a,55.8y,154.64h,90.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJZUZ3eJ-JcWh2fdtN4UkUQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

It's a café with a billiard table. Maybe they do betting, too.

Here are pictures from other angles:

https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2024/01/22/news/incidente_auto_vetrina_bar_4_feriti_pisacane_maistre-14012960/

The speed does seem unlikely. The driver crashed against and took out a bit of wall, but it seems unlikely that this alone would have stopped the car. Glad no-one seems to have been seriously injured.

It's a café with a billiard table. Maybe they do betting, too.

Yep, looks like it! I was just distracted by the PlanetWin365 branding in the window of the article there.

I didn't see that it was a 2-car incident, so I guess that took the brunt of the initial impact and the car deflected into the cafe.

From the pictures, there was enough momentum in the vehicle to leave the background buildings leaning at an angle.

there's a joke here somewhere...
listening to turin no brakes something something?