Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Can we not agree on preventable incidents?

Just below the right hand corner of the frame there must be a cyclist not wearing hi viz . Otherwise, none of this would have happened.

Nope. Don't have a source Oliver.

BBC You and Yours NEED to do a show about this.

There's certainly enough material in this thread for even the laziest researcher.

I've been really surprised at how often it happens. Fortunately, as noted before, most of these crashes only result in property damage, bar some tragic exceptions like the New Zealand crash linked to above.

Accidents, Oliver, Accidents.

With the emphasis on 'dents'.

Thank goodness for the guy's fast reaction, otherwise this would be pretty gruesome.

Can we not agree on preventable incidents?

That's OK by me, it's got the 'dents' bit in.

20 cars crash through building

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11644277/Twenty-Audis-plunge-through-roof-of-Milton-Keynes-dealership.html

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/two-fighting-for-life-and-teenage-girl-seriously-injured-after-car-crashes-through-front-garden-on-suburban-street-in-south-london-10304087.html

That's a terrible crash, but not one into a building. They may have entered the garden but actually crashed against a tree, and that's a very different collision pattern, much more serious, and very often fatal.

what if there was a treehouse in that tree? huh? HUH?

also, squirrels.

One of the seriously injured young men in this crash has now died, and it seems possible that there may be another fatality from it:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bromley-crash-teenager-dies-after-car-crashes-through-front-garden-and-hits-tree-10306594.html

Again, this is a completely different kind of crash than your typical collision with a wall, and it's probably not a good idea to joke about it, however obliquely. I can only assume that decades of vehicle engineering have resulted in good protection for those inside the vehicle when it crashes against a flat surface, but the uneven pressure applied by a tree to the front of a car has not been dealt with at all--these crashes seem to have the same terrible outcomes that they had decades ago.

. I can only assume that decades of vehicle engineering have resulted in good protection for those inside the vehicle when it crashes

Agree that this sad incident is not a joking matter. On the point about protection for people inside vehicles. This perhaps is the issue, as people feel more protected inside they may take more risks and harm more people outside the vehicle #banseatbelts #replaceairbagswithspikes

Perhaps the French approach of removing the trees to improve safety would help

http://rdrf.org.uk/2015/03/13/killer-trees-the-meaning-of-the-french-programme-of-felling-roadside-trees-for-road-safety/

Anyway. Sentient cars crashing into buildings time.

http://i.imgur.com/PF5M4QE.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DN85Xb8Tjk

Here's a bad one, made more serious by a gas explosion:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/shocking-footage-of-moment-truck-crashes-into-cafe-leaving-seven-people-seriously-injured-10312191.html

See Marc Bolan.

This is what would have happened in that Knightrider clip in real life.

I feel like sentient cars deliberately crashing into buildings do not really belong in this thread.

I hope we get off this page soon, that .gif is massive.

Yes, him and countless others. As boffers mentioned, tree-felling programmes have been carried out. In Germany, this was under the slogan: 'Every tree is a potential murderer.' It was done largely in the 60s and 70s, and Germany lost some beautiful rural avenues that way.

rural avenue

Euph?

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/dramatic-photos-car-reversed-northwood-9458942

Standard report using the same dramatically-lit photo:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/car-reverses-through-shop-front-in-driving-mishap-in-northwest-london-10324552.html

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/range-rover-shot-at-before-careering-into-block-of-flats-near-paddington-station-10337112.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZT5mQLy5C4