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  1. kaputnik
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-33066342

    Car somersaults 20ft into sunken garden in Staffordshire

    Posted 8 years ago #
  2. Stickman
    Member

    The next series of Britain's Got Talent could be amazing with all these acrobatic cars. They put the trained dogs to shame.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  3. acsimpson
    Member

    You've got to feel sorry for the driver, being arrested after your car misbehaves so badly.

    I guess this video is the cycling equivalent:
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    Posted 8 years ago #
  4. SRD
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    A car has flown off a road and smashed through the roof of a house in South Africa's coastal city Durban, emergency services firm ER24 says.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33366020

    Posted 8 years ago #
  5. acsimpson
    Member

    "The driver said he drove over a ramp, and this led him to crash into the house in Kwamakhutha township, it said."

    I suppose once he left the end of the ramp there wasn't much for him to do other than wait for the car to finish crashing.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  6. chdot
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  7. Seen ina report on the chap being hit by the tram today: "A 14 year-old girl was ‘glanced’ by a tram in the first week of operation, and there have been some collisions with other vehicles since then."

    14 year-old girls are now considered vehicles?

    [/grammarpedant]

    Posted 8 years ago #
  8. Stickman
    Member

    "Driver cut free after car hits Dalbeattie house"

    The article doesn't say what provoked the car into hitting the house. Maybe it said something insulting.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-33674370

    Posted 8 years ago #
  9. I were right about that saddle
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  10. neddie
    Member

    3 lorries take over whole road:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-33760196

    Posted 8 years ago #
  11. acsimpson
    Member

    Man hurt after car hits wall and overturns in Edinburgh

    Driver? Pedestrian? Sleeping on the other side of the wall?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  12. Min
    Member

    According to the EEN it was the driver but they are still clear that the car was to blame.

    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/car-hits-wall-and-overturns-driver-in-hospital-1-3848785

    Posted 8 years ago #
  13. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Or, in STV language;

    The car left the road, struck a wall and overturned.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  14. I love that phrase 'left the road', as if it was an amicable but regrettable parting.

    "Road, look, it's not you, it's me...."

    Posted 8 years ago #
  15. chdot
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  16. ARobComp
    Member

    I'm quite entertained by the distant periscope that the EEN have done of a column of smoke...

    Posted 8 years ago #
  17. “There was smoke and flames everywhere, it was really scary. I could see the man that jumped out of the car shaking. Everyone was just running about in panic, we didn’t know what to do.”

    From the photos and video it looked like what people actually did do was phone the fire brigade, and stand around watching. Everyone running about in panic?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  18. SRD
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    Anyone else find it more distressing that a car from the 80s qualifies as a 'classic car'?

    (Kind of like turning on the radio this summer and hearing all the music of my teenage years described as 'classic rock')

    Posted 8 years ago #
  19. Shhhh!

    (Mind you, I'd have described it as a kit car rather than a classic... The Phaeton was based on a Triumph Herald originally, and then the Ford Escort).

    Posted 8 years ago #
  20. chdot
    Admin

    Suspect more the 'style' than actual manufacturing date

    http://www.lotus7register.co.uk/images/7%20story/McGoohan%20&%20Graham%20Nearn%20with%20one%20of%20the%20Prisoner%20Sevens.jpg

    @SRD NO, 90s not classic.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  21. Technically Classic cars (according to insurers) are over 20 years old; though the VED exemption kicks in if a car is pre-'73 (used to be rolling 25 years, but that got changed and the date was fixed).

    Posted 8 years ago #
  22. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Anyone else find it more distressing that a car from the 80s qualifies as a 'classic car'?

    Given the description given by W.C. above, it's certainly distressing that a 1995 Rover 200 is now a classic car.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  23. Stickman
    Member

    http://m.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/car-crashes-into-bus-shelter-on-queensferry-road-1-3863221

    It's a straight road, how is this even possible?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  24. crowriver
    Member

    Thought this may be relevant.

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    Why It’s So Hard to Treat Bicyclists Like Human Beings

    We’re so used to the idea of drivers crashing into things, people, and animals that many headlines of such tragedies personify the vehicle, and in doing so erase fault from its ubiquitous operator. Cars confine empathy, especially while moving at speed. Cyclists and pedestrians become mere obstacles to avoid, or to not avoid once a motor vehicle and its driver are in motion.

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    http://rebelmetropolis.org/why-its-so-hard-to-treat-bicyclists-like-human-beings/

    Posted 8 years ago #
  25. crowriver
    Member

    Woman serious after being hit by car in Oxgangs

    A WOMAN has been left with serious injuries after being hit by a car in Oxgangs,

    The 26-year-old was knocked down at 2.05pm on Saturday on Oxgangs Avenue by a Skoda car. She was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with serious injuries.

    Constable Fraser Mitchell said: “We are still trying to establish the full circumstances surrounding this collision and would ask that any motorists or pedestrians who were in Oxgangs Avenue on Saturday afternoon and witnessed the incident, contact police immediately.”

    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/woman-serious-after-being-hit-by-car-in-oxgangs-1-3885421

    Posted 8 years ago #
  26. neddie
    Member

    Car only whan-ted to see the gieme:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34316703

    Posted 8 years ago #
  27. Charlethepar
    Member

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    This is a classic of the art. Not only did the red car hit the man, it then drove away and is being sought by the polis.

    Most wanted Red Car.

    Next they'll be issuing a photofit of the car.

    Have you seen this Car?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  28. Charlethepar
    Member

    Looks suspicious, Sarg, lets take him in for questioning

    Posted 8 years ago #
  29. twq
    Member

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34379029
    "he was hit by a car which is believed to have mounted the pavement"
    If the car says it mounted the pavement, who are we to disagree?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  30. acsimpson
    Member

    Just minding it's own business trying to park.

    Posted 8 years ago #

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