Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Four bus passengers were left injured after a route 328 bus crashed into a building on a major west London road early on Tuesday morning.

The bus struck a building on Old Brompton Road at the junction of Warwick and Finborough Road in Earl’s Court at 5.44am, with four passengers sustaining minor injuries.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/earls-court-bus-crash-london-old-brompton-road-tfl-route-328-b1135899.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bus-crash-new-oxford-street-london-b2507199.html

A double-decker bus dramatically smashed through a building next to a pub near London’s Oxford Street on Tuesday morning.

Emergency services were called after the yellow bus, thought to be the number 9, crashed into the shop front next door to All Bar One in New Oxford Street, near Tottenham Court Road Tube station, shortly after 10am.

Two people were treated by paramedics at the scene, with one taken to hospital.

Police initially said the bus hit All Bar One, but the London Ambulance Service later clarified that it hit a shop front beside the pub.

Images shared on social media show the vehicle lodged into the front of the stone building with shattered glass on the floor around it.

It’s not clear yet if the neighbouring All Bar One was open at the time of the incident, but according to its operating hours on Google, it opened at 10am.

"the yellow bus, thought to be the number 9"

That’s such a shit article it’s a joke

It’s not clear yet if the neighbouring All Bar One was open at the
time of the incident, but according to its operating hours on Google,
it opened at 10am.

Woodward & Bernstein there.

It's why I quoted it for posterity, absolute mayhem 😂

It reads like it was written on very little information and then barely updated after minor details like which building it crashed in to and a whacking great picture of the bus.

That looks like a clear case of the driver not making the turn out of Earnshaw Street for some reason (the number 8 turns there, coming from St Giles High Street). Usually that's because of having to take evasive action, but it could of course be driver incapacitation or mechanical failure.

It's two bays down from All Bar One and is actually closer to Costa, fact fans.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/new-oxford-street-bus-crash-all-bar-one-soho-pub-window-b1143243.html

Hope all affected are OK.

https://twitter.com/markarby/status/1764960049464590338

Worth it for the replies (especially the one telling GB News to get fucked).

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/car-mounts-pavement-ploughs-insurance-28785182

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-68528263

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-68598455
Bike racks are buildings, right?

(Edit - Oops, it's in the other thread too)

Big van meets low bridge in Brockley

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1bnbx2r/absolute_scenes_in_brockley_this_morning

You can't park there mate.

https://twickenham.nub.news/news/local-news/shock-and-disbelief-as-car-crashes-into-flat-front-window-in-quiet-twickenham-cul-de-sac-225486

This seems to be here:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4439793,-0.3533555,3a,22.7y,305.78h,86.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0wMeUYyqS5JFw_QLIg5KRg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Quite unusual in that it didn't occur at a bend the driver could have misjudged, but looks as if they might have driven along this (straight) street, most likely too fast (brake failure is a possibility, of course), not realising that it was a dead end. When they realised, they may have tried to avoid the tree to the right of the window. They hit that directly because the house is slightly lower than street level. It's just as well that it happened in the daytime and not when the occupant would have been in the bedroom.

I'm convinced lots of these are cased by drivers of automatic cars trying to emergency stop but mashing the accelerator pedal to the floor instead of the brake

Obviously it's all pure speculation, but I'd be going with the panic-induced stomping of the accelerator either mistaking it for the brake or thinking they were in reverse.

Pretty terrifying regardless.

Thanks, both, that's undoubtedly more likely than my little hypothesis. Knowing little about the mechanics of driving, why is it more likely in an automatic car?

why is it more likely in an automatic car?

If you emergency stop in a manual car you have to depress the clutch as well, or else the engine stalls. So even if you hit the gas by mistake, engine will just rev but no acceleration. In an automatic no such option

Also a manual car will eventually hit its rev limit an automatic will keep going

Also, on a similar point, when driving a manual it's pretty instinctive (well, you've been trained a lot to do it) to go with both feet when emergency braking. Going with two feet instead of one means you're going to do one of:

• hit the clutch and the brake (the proper way)
  
• hit the clutch and the accelerator (engine will rev and you'll coast into whatever but won't speed up)
  
• hit the brake and the accelerator (the braking should have a greater effect than the engine)
  
  

It would take some special amount of shit co-ordination to hit the accelerator with both feet (bad) or miss the clutch completely to the left (also bad). The pedals are usually sized so that the brake pedal is the most forgiving (being the largest).

Would also assume (based on the one automatic car I've driven) that a lot of automatics do that drop a gear to boost acceleration thing so possibly if someone mashed the accelerator the car would think it's another motorway overtaking case and possibly apply more acceleration when it's not wanted?

Apparently it's an AI generated image, which is worrying that it made it into a national news article.

See: completely smooth nearside tyre, gibberish text on numberplate, nearside alloy wheel spoke(s) missing/bent(?), weird text on hi-viz, weird roof tiles

High res image here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CarTalkUK/comments/1bvk8vx/you_cant_park_there_mate/

It's probably been compressed but there are multiple pictures from different angles, and then a picture of the boarded up house with hazard tape all round it. I think it is real

I think that Reddit hi res version has been upscaled using AI, making weird artifacts, but I think it still happened. The small scale version pictures look ok, and all the bits of debris match from the different angles, which I imagine AI not to be able to do somehow, not yet anyway.

I'm no expert though, someone go down there and check?

Edit: what he said^

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