Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Standard story on the High Wycombe crash:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/dramatic-pictures-show-damage-after-bus-ploughs-into-buckinghamshire-house-a3423316.html

Bad incidents both.

Special George Michael memorial edition that pre-dates this thread:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/06/george-michael-arrested

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/george-michael-was-sweaty-and-spaced-out-after-drug-induced-crash-6506131.html

http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/george_michael_fans_accuse_hampstead_shop_of_exploiting_their_hero_1_658205

Pic from Mail Online...

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BBC link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38693108

(Always post a link to a story. If you found it on the Daily Mail web-site, find another news outlet to link to. :) )

And in Berkshire this afternoon:
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/binfield-ferrari-driver-reverses-neighbours-12491074

Always reliable Berkshire. :)

Also always reliable for headlines is the smash-and-grab raid:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/thieves-ram-van-into-knightsbridge-louis-vuitton-store-in-dramatic-morning-raid-a3448781.html

Continental Hotel, Hounslow

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/car-ploughs-into-reception-of-hounslow-hotel-a3449286.html

Whoops soz. The other, wider photo shows a wide junction and traffic lights, it is hard to see how the driver managed that.

http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/see-photos-of-car-8217-s-dramatic-crash-into-bakery/story-30093660-detail/story.html

Good that nobody was badly hurt in either of those.

It's not clear if the motorbikes were used in this smash-and-grab raid:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/motorbike-thieves-raid-michael-kors-and-ismash-shop-in-smashandgrab-burglary-on-kings-road-chelsea-a3452346.html

This puts a figure to crashes into low bridges--1,700 incidents a year, although it's not quite clear whether 'in Britain' includes Scotland or (as often) means 'in the UK' and includes Northern Ireland, too.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/councils-call-for-lorries-to-banned-from-using-car-satnavs-a3452361.html

Granted, some of these bridges may be mere structures. :)

They robbed a shop called iSmash? I kind of admire that.

One thing that's a little nasty is that the perpetrators may have timed their raid to coincide with the vigil for a motorcyclist who was killed in the King's Road on Thursday:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/motorbike-thieves-raid-michael-kors-and-ismash-shop-in-smashandgrab-burglary-on-kings-road-chelsea-a3452346.html

I could imagine that they thought it would reduce the likelihood of being caught. If so, that would be a really unclassy move.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/39038417

Across the pond.

Car crashes on to house roof in China - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-39242984
With video.

rekt

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/pair-admit-blaming-mystery-cafe-customer-after-crashing-130000-lamborghini-in-westminster-a3489766.html

John Lewis home delivery service?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-39315229

I can only echo the local's comment that it's amazing nobody was seriously injured there.

Another bridge strike, although I suspect this one was a structure rather than a building. :)

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/fenchurch-street-delays-queues-and-absolute-chaos-on-c2c-lines-after-lorry-collides-with-bridge-in-a3494666.html

Stockholm, Sweden

People take pictures of a scene of a failed smash and grab attack on a Chanel boutique

https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2017/mar/21/best-photos-of-the-day-maradona-mural-and-prince-charless-new-glasses#img-2

How on earth did they fail with that monster Volvo!

Too much safety equipment on the Volvo?

A horrific experience here:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/mar/31/car-crashed-into-bathroom-experience

As is generally the case, the driver doesn't seem to have been injured badly or injured at all, but the same can't be said for the occupant of the room he crashed into.