Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Somewhat disappointingly, it didn't quite reach the actual building:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/rogue-british-tank-crashes-into-german-front-yard-10038664.html

Runaway: the military vehicle lurched off the road because of a technical fault

Yeah whatever, the garden wasn't wearing hi-viz. I think we know who's really at fault here.

#britsabroad

Am on this train, 3 miles from where am staying but don't fancy walking main roads as it gets dark cos I'm pushing a buggy.

Daughter getting v.restless.

Hope vehicle occupants are ok.

^ Big Soc. in full effect, 4 of us formed a crew and shared a taxi onwards to get to where we needed to go. Drove under struck bridge, looked fine. #noexpert

Not sure if big society or I'm all right Jack Thatcherism.

Watching Anglia News with my niece, a report on a van that smashed into a building in Terrington. "Is the van in prison?" My niece said. She's five next month.

Snow + ice + steep hill = http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-30914441

And a fortnight later... http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/safety-pleas-after-second-crash-on-sheffield-road-where-car-ploughed-into-house-1-7094104

If we'd been able to organise a fleet of coaches to carry everyone we'd have done that of course. #nextbestthing

When I started this thread, I had no idea how often these incidents happened--I just thought there was a temporary surge of them, but you see them all the time. Maybe it's more exahustive news reporting coverage, but something like this type of crash seems to happen every week. Another unfortunate story:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/londons-unluckiest-family-lose-home-when-car-ploughs-into-living-room-then-their-rented-house-is-destroyed-by-kitchen-blaze-10058393.html

Luckily, as with most of these cases, nobody was hurt.

I used to hear of them all the time when I was younger: lived in quite a few villages that cars just sped right through, twisty roads Vs drivers who find b roads an opp to stretch their engines.

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/car-crashes-two-oxford-road-8740226

Oxford road? That must have caused pounds of damage.

Christian Community Action (which I assume would be a charity shop) and Shazz Hair and Beauty.

You always worry about small businesses. Does third party insurance pay out in cases like this? The way the car passengers behaved afterwards, it sounds more like a joyride, though, with them perhaps uninsured. :( Let's hope that's not the case.

The irony is that there has been a police campaign for the last month targeting cyclists on the pavements along the Oxford road, despite there having been no accidents caused by them in recent times.
This is at least the second incident involving a vehicle crashing into something on the pavement in a year.

Careless car careers completely out of control in Carshalton causing chaos:
http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/LatestIncidentsContainer_12031531.asp#.VQGp6_msV8E

Another report, with picture:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/family-narrowly-escape-injury-after-car-crashes-into-their-living-room-while-they-ate-breakfast-10104777.html

Crazy wall ride. Nutter.

Full marks for originality. Is this recent?

Another sub-genre of this topic is the tall vehicle crash into a low bridge. Mostly this is performed by drivers of buses or coaches, but I've occasionally seen lorry drivers do it, too.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/roof-ripped-off-doubledecker-in-crash-with-rail-bridge-in-west-london-10108486.html

Some places get it more often than others; the railway bridge across Kenworthy Road, E9, gets done every couple of years, for instance.

Eh? Drivers don't crash into bridges. FFSSchick it's the vehicles that wantonly smash into these airbourne bits of architecture that are inconsiderately blocking their way by loitering above roadspace.

I lived in the house right by that bridge in the 1980s, and there were lorries hitting it every few weeks. The drivers would usually knock on my door to use my phone to get help, I used to send them down to the phone box at Hackney Wick. One day the driver didn't come back from the call box, when the police arrived half an hour later they prized open the shutter at the back to find a stolen BMW inside.

Did someone say party bus?

This car collided into a tree. Unfortunately the driver died. Someone should really have made sure the car's steering, breaking and throttle were in working order before it took the owner for a drive though

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/appeal-launched-after-young-driver-is-killed-in-collision-with-a-tree-in-south-london-10108933.html