Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Another bad bus crash:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/harlesden-bus-crash-dozens-feared-injured-after-double-decker-bus-smashes-into-shop-on-high-street-a3248426.html

(Some previous ones posted in this thread were in Coventry.)

It's somewhat unremarkable, but it's a friends house in the photo.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/road-closure-after-car-crashes-into-garden-wall-in-portsmouth-1-7394729

Backwards, impressive we don't see much backwards in this thread.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/7/11876794/tesla-model-x-crash-unintended-acceleration

Nice agapanthus.

Turn the wheel clockwise and the car goes right. Turn it counter-clockwise? That makes it go left.

Who could work out secrets of such complexity? Completely counter-intuitive.

This is billed as a crash into a building, but the car actually didn't reach the building. I'm posting it here partly because of the headline and also because it caused the driver serious injury, which for some reason (as noted earlier in the thread) seems to be very rare in cases in which the vehicle does reach the building. Quite unscientifically speaking, you seem to hear about crashes into non-load-bearing walls being more serious more often. That may be a completely false perception, of course.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/leyton-high-road-crash-driver-fighting-for-life-after-crashing-into-building-a3263671.html

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/barnet-crash-driver-obliterates-car-by-ploughing-into-front-garden-in-north-london-a3275366.html

Clearly not appropriate for this thread, as it's a driver at fault here!

A close call, this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-36538718

A hit-and-run followed by a bad fire:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/harrow-fire-terror-as-car-bursts-into-flames-after-ploughing-into-high-street-shop-front-a3286426.html

So fortunate nobody was injured, by the sound of it.

A structure, not a building, but I thought it was remarkable enough to include here:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/war-memorial-obliterated-by-car-in-southeast-london-a3291511.html

A terribly tragic crash in Darlington:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/darlington-bus-crash-elderly-woman-killed-as-bus-careers-into-bank-in-busy-high-street-a3290556.html

Another fatality where a bus crashed into a building. Fatalities in collisions with buildings are very rare, but bus passengers died in a couple of bus crashes in Coventry posted further up in this thread. In this case, Eileen Brennan, who was 82, was apparently hit by the bus as she was on the footway outside the building.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/08/police-name-woman-killed-in-darlington-bus-crash

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/North-Florida-Woman-Crashes-Into-Home-After-Closing-Eyes-To-Pray-While-Driving-386483101.html

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20160711/woman-who-was-driving-while-praying-with-her-eyes-closed-hits-house

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/diners-injured-after-unmarked-police-car-crashes-outside-north-london-restaurant-a3305221.html

Quite a few stories recently in which the actual building claimed to have been hit wasn't actually hit. Here's another:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/car-smashes-into-tower-block-in-manor-house-a3313151.html

Anything to jazz up your clickbait with false claims of hits against buildings. I obviously always fall for that, as I want to see if it's worth posting in this thread. This is the last one in which the building isn't hit (and only a wall or fence or bollard outside the building) that I post here. :)

A delivery lorry drove into my shop yesterday and knocked off some bits of the front. The driver half considered stopping, but decided against it and drove off.

It didn't make the papers.

A light grazing of this building, it appears:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/car-smashes-into-side-of-tesco-supermarket-in-piccadilly-circus-a3328831.html

Very lucky no pedestrians hurt, with the famous avert lights all times day and night someone is around.

How the hell did they manage that?! I can't see how they managed to spin when regent st is one way north, and jermyn st is one way east.

Yea I know...bridges aren't buildings.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-37204050

I like the way the headline is 'bridge collapse' but it seems that the bridge collapsed after a vehicle struck it.

What a clusterfuck of headlines:

For most of them the bridge just collapses, rather than having been battered. As usual the driver is somehow not culpable, it's the lorry. The the exception is the Daily Mail, which claims it's the digger. Several headlines focus on how the ensuing chaos is an inconvenience to other drivers. So far only the Mirror focuses on the main victim, the motorcyclist, but their headline does not specify that he ended up in hospital, only that he 'avoids death'.

The motorbiker's got bust ribs. I wonder if they saw all this develop in front of them and decided that laying the bike down was the best option. At 70 mph.