Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

As reported by the Guardian next to the picture:

A gritting lorry is embedded in a house in Cheshire after skidding off the road. Police say the driver was taken to hospital as a precautionary measure. The occupants of the building are safe and well

Happy now?

But yes, once again it's shown how crashes like this rarely cause serious injuries or death.

It looks as if the bus touched the house in this one:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/27/double-decker-bus-crash-garden-london-streatham

Another bridge strike:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/lorry-collides-with-railway-bridge-in-south-london-sparking-huge-train-disruption-a4027346.html

Cue structure/building debate. :)

This is an odd report, as it sounds as if the driver just carried on?

sounds as if the driver just carried on

Nothing new there. Oblivious cunts.

One of the things I've concluded since starting this thread is that these events happen much more regularly than I was previously aware.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mother-and-girl-11-forced-to-sleep-in-car-after-minicab-crashed-into-southeast-london-home-a4039021.html

In this case, it seems a lucky thing that she wasn't injured badly--it sounds as if she was actually hit by the car when it entered the kitchen.

Why aren't the driver's insurer paying for temporary accommodation?

Insurance doesn't pay out for ages...

Ah yes, you'd need building insurance, and then claim off them who then claim off the driver's insurer. Maybe?

Yep, if you needed something fast, you'd have to claim off your own insurance. They would then recoup the costs from the dickhead's insurance.

The family have now been placed in a three-bedroom property while a new permanent home is found for them.

Reads like they're maybe council tenants. In which case its unlikely they have home insurance

The property would have insurance though? No matter who owns it.

But the council getting their money back doesn't get the woman a hotel room.

I'm making an assumption that housing insurance has some kind of temporary accommodation for residents provided, if the damage is such the place is unlivable. Never having looked at a home ins. policy means I have no idea if this is the case or not.

"Your council has a duty to provide you with emergency accommodation if you're made homeless by flooding."
https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/repairs/housing_help_if_your_home_is_flooded

No idea what the case is for 'car crashing into home'.

You may be asked to move to another property if;

There is a fire, flood or other disaster affecting your home;
Major repairs are needed where it is unreasonable or unsafe for you to remain in your home;

https://www.oxford.gov.uk/info/20164/major_repairs/616/moving_you_from_your_council_home_due_to_major_work_or_emergencies

"Ms Hassan — a personal trainer and carer — stayed with relatives before being given a room in a nearby hotel by housing association London and Quadrant, which owns the home.
ut the single mother said conditions in the hotel were “terrifying” because of alleged antisocial behaviour there.
She said she was so scared she took her 11-year-old daughter Yasemin to sleep in the car with her while her son Tyla, six, stayed at his grandmother’s house in Sidcup. The family have now been placed in a three-bedroom property while a new permanent home is found for them. "

Ah. So they just put her in the shittest and cheapest hotel available

You're talking to a guy who sleeps in bus shelters but yeah, probably.

By choice!

Nutter

I've stayed in a few hotels where the bus stops were preferable.

One of the things I've concluded since starting this thread is that these events happen much more regularly than I was previously aware.

Driving without hitting stationary roadside objects is difficult, Oliver. I can't drive to the local shops, some 900 meters away, without colliding with either a bridge (it is a building!), a house (council owned) or shopping precinct.

Yeah, I mean I'm just plowing through road furniture and sheds on a daily basis, houses and shops I try and keep to a fortnightly routine.

That'll be why Paddington is looking like the Bronx in the 70s, then.

This is your car, right?

Think I've seen you around.

Digger driver crashes into Travelodge

We had something like this a while ago. Motto: Pay people who operate dangerous machinery. Well, pay everybody else, too.