Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

A Dachs is a badger in German, so it could be interpreted as 'Badgerer Intelligent Logistics'.

meanwhile - in a shocking reversal of fortunes...

/possible potatchop

Car drives drunken man into building
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/thirteen-injured-as-car-ploughs-into-smoking-shelter-outside-nightclub-a3098536.html

That article links to http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/watch-horrifying-moment-cyclist-collides-with-car-at-high-speed-in-west-london-crash-a3098426.html which shouldn't be in this thread but is so badly written. Cyclist is mentioned as colliding with car and weaving past pedestrians at lights before doing so, if you can be bothered to sit through the ads and watch the video the light is green and the peds run out, the car then turns right across cyclists despite cyclist having priority.

I told you those Audis are a fucking menace. Poor innocent drunk man..

Too many Christine like cars around at the moment.
So glad I have my Audi under my control at all times. Fingers crossed it doesn't fuck me around in the near future

Dalston. Something something rest in PIECES.

Do provide a link, spindrift. :)

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/police-car-on-emergency-call-in-dalston-crashes-into-funeral-parlour-a3099901.html

From the description of the crash, it sounds as if this was partly caused by the annoying arrangement with the banned right turn from Dalston Lane into Queensbridge Road. Drivers and riders wishing to make this turn have to turn into Laurel Street, the little side street seen in the picture and cut through to Queensbridge Road that way. It sounds as if the other driver was in the attempt of doing that when hit by the police driver.

Anyway, glad no-one was hurt.

Old bill crashed in Norwich, driver not charged with anything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnxS1K2XJjA

And there was that news reader at Angel who got hit and had a bad head injury. The poor bloke hit in Hackney was struck by a police car responding to a burglar alarm I think.

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Not the only time either

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Now that's really a thread derail too far. :)

Old bill crashed in Norwich, driver not charged with anything:

What would they be charged for? The police will undoubtedly pay the Council for the damage to the bollards. Plus, bollards are *definitely* not buildings. :)

And there was that news reader at Angel who got hit and had a bad head injury. The poor bloke hit in Hackney was struck by a police car responding to a burglar alarm I think.

Are these emergency service crashes without involvement of buildings?

It's creepy how cars somehow seem to be able to smell that the owner has been drinking, then exploit that weakness in order to get up to their usual shenanigans. People need to appreciate how difficult it is to gain control of a disobedient car once you've had a pint or two.

Keeping your vehicle on the road so it doesn't leave the road and smash into things is a basic driving skill. If your vehicle smashes into inert objects at high speed it's a sign that something's gone wrong with the driving.

Thanks for clarifying that...

You have a point there

Whoah, hold on a moment here, I don't think we can accept just any old point without any real evidence.

You have a pint there

Oh ok then but just the one and maybe seven more because I'm driving..

The police will undoubtedly pay the Council for the damage to the bollards.

My council tax you mean, the pavement was ripped to shit, car written off, that was probably a five figure insurance claim that the public will meet one way or the other and the old bill shrug it off as one of those things. That's why they don't always charge other drivers who smash into shops and funeral parlours and walls and bridges. Could happen to anyone, these new fangled cars are so blasted skittish.

Oh, it was £3k and the driver was sanctioned, which ruins my point:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22154947

I think you have to face the fact that the car just fancied crashing into some bollards and there was nothing the poor officer could do. :)

I thought your point about cost was mainly about the damage to the car? That's not talked about in the article.

Bollards aren't that expensive to replace. It would have been different had the driver car actually crashed into a BUILDING. :)

A deliberate crash
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-34666313