"I bet they get people in the front room all the time"
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Something I'll often think of at quite a few spots near me, and brought to mind by this article:
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/swan-inn-...
Houses, pubs and such that are on the crest of NSL roads or other fairly fast bends - As per the above, 5 people through the wall in the past 3 years...
Anyone know of a local spot where people are crashing through the wall all the time? - If anyone has lived in one, any massive impact on house insurance out of interest?
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/swan-inn-...
Houses, pubs and such that are on the crest of NSL roads or other fairly fast bends - As per the above, 5 people through the wall in the past 3 years...
Anyone know of a local spot where people are crashing through the wall all the time? - If anyone has lived in one, any massive impact on house insurance out of interest?
There was a pub on my old patch which was on the exit of a small traffic island which people used to 'straight line' at speed when the traffic was light.
One Sunday afternoon a BMW 5 series being driven by a drunk bloke went straight through the wall and into the seating area. I was amazed no one was killed let alone injured as the CCTV showed the car coming through the wall and bashing a table full of roast dinners out from under the noses of an elderly couple. Poor sods, they didnt even have time to pop a bit of salt and pepper on. It was amazing footage and should have made it to some low rent 'close calls on camera' TV show. They were sat there holding their cutlery looking confused.
Driver blew about 4 times over the limit and was already on a ban for drink drive.... it didnt look like he made any effort to brake or steer....just went straight to the bar in his car! There are some kind of vehicle mitigation blocks around the pub now but I doubt they would stop much. It's been hit again a few times but overnight so no customers inside, the pub was there well before the road too so I feel sorry for the owners.
One Sunday afternoon a BMW 5 series being driven by a drunk bloke went straight through the wall and into the seating area. I was amazed no one was killed let alone injured as the CCTV showed the car coming through the wall and bashing a table full of roast dinners out from under the noses of an elderly couple. Poor sods, they didnt even have time to pop a bit of salt and pepper on. It was amazing footage and should have made it to some low rent 'close calls on camera' TV show. They were sat there holding their cutlery looking confused.
Driver blew about 4 times over the limit and was already on a ban for drink drive.... it didnt look like he made any effort to brake or steer....just went straight to the bar in his car! There are some kind of vehicle mitigation blocks around the pub now but I doubt they would stop much. It's been hit again a few times but overnight so no customers inside, the pub was there well before the road too so I feel sorry for the owners.
I lived in a house on the corner of a main road & a narrow lane. Heavy trucks, often foreign artics, when visiting local factories used the lane to do 3 point turns. The surrounding Cotswold stone walls were damaged many times. I never claimed on my house insurance. Most times I managed to make truck owners pay for repairs; usually after a battle. Most companies started by denying their truck was even in the area. Local factories very cooperative in giving me written prove that trucks had visited them.
A change of personnel at the Highways dept allowed me to obtain larger bollards to protect the walls & problem disappeared.
A change of personnel at the Highways dept allowed me to obtain larger bollards to protect the walls & problem disappeared.
It happened to me about 20 years ago.
I owned a listed stone cottage. A woman in a brand new V8 Disco said that the throttle stuck open and she careered into the house writing 3 other cars off on the way.
The house had a cellar where the Disco ended up when the ground floor gave way under the weight of the collapsing front elevation. I was about 20 miles away when I got the call from my hysterical partner at the time. (she was in the house with the baby), and I will never forget the 100 mph dash down the motorway in a hastily borrowed Honda CRX and running the final mile because the road was blocked by written off cars. Then arriving to the sight of a crane lifting the Disco out of the house ripping the rest of the front elevation down as it went.
The following 2 years was a tortuous battle to get the Norwich Union to part with their money to repair the house. They never disputed liability, they simply hid behind loss adjusters who argued every penny of expenditure. Every invoice started a war of letters and threats of court action from the experts that I employed, to their loss adjusters.
At one point we were being evicted from the rented house that they put us in because NU had not paid the rent for 4 months ( we had a 2 year old and another on the way ), the builders had walked off the job because they had not been paid, and I was working at the house everyday FOC trying to finish the repairs.
I resolved the problem by parking myself in the Manchester head office of the Norwich Union ( covered in building site filth ) and refusing to leave without a cheque for the builders. After about an hour the police were called to escort me from the building. I respectfully informed the NU chap that I would be returning everyday until I had the cheque. The next day when I arrived equipped with flask and sandwiches for my sit in, an envelop was waiting with a cheque for just over £25k. The total bill was over £100k.
I learned a great deal about how to deal with these incidents. But most of all I learned that the guys in suits are as dangerous as any lowlife thug when it comes to lying and manipulating the weaker members of society. If I had not stood my ground, many many times, the Norwich would have not paid out their legal liability in full. Every penny that it cost them was 100% legitimate, yet they acted throughout as if I was a criminal trying to defraud them. If this type of incident happens to someone less arsey than me they get away with their bull and the poor consumer gets screwed.
Tossers.
/rant
I owned a listed stone cottage. A woman in a brand new V8 Disco said that the throttle stuck open and she careered into the house writing 3 other cars off on the way.
The house had a cellar where the Disco ended up when the ground floor gave way under the weight of the collapsing front elevation. I was about 20 miles away when I got the call from my hysterical partner at the time. (she was in the house with the baby), and I will never forget the 100 mph dash down the motorway in a hastily borrowed Honda CRX and running the final mile because the road was blocked by written off cars. Then arriving to the sight of a crane lifting the Disco out of the house ripping the rest of the front elevation down as it went.
The following 2 years was a tortuous battle to get the Norwich Union to part with their money to repair the house. They never disputed liability, they simply hid behind loss adjusters who argued every penny of expenditure. Every invoice started a war of letters and threats of court action from the experts that I employed, to their loss adjusters.
At one point we were being evicted from the rented house that they put us in because NU had not paid the rent for 4 months ( we had a 2 year old and another on the way ), the builders had walked off the job because they had not been paid, and I was working at the house everyday FOC trying to finish the repairs.
I resolved the problem by parking myself in the Manchester head office of the Norwich Union ( covered in building site filth ) and refusing to leave without a cheque for the builders. After about an hour the police were called to escort me from the building. I respectfully informed the NU chap that I would be returning everyday until I had the cheque. The next day when I arrived equipped with flask and sandwiches for my sit in, an envelop was waiting with a cheque for just over £25k. The total bill was over £100k.
I learned a great deal about how to deal with these incidents. But most of all I learned that the guys in suits are as dangerous as any lowlife thug when it comes to lying and manipulating the weaker members of society. If I had not stood my ground, many many times, the Norwich would have not paid out their legal liability in full. Every penny that it cost them was 100% legitimate, yet they acted throughout as if I was a criminal trying to defraud them. If this type of incident happens to someone less arsey than me they get away with their bull and the poor consumer gets screwed.
Tossers.
/rant
Edited by AlvinSultana on Wednesday 20th January 11:08
Another Kent one, cars go straight on here all the time, they have put up a 20mph sign as if that's going to be effective (drivers are almost always drunk).
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/homeowner-wants...
https://goo.gl/maps/ojrMPag7PyRRw7uP8
Historical streetview doesn't seem to be working but the wall has been replaced multiple times.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/homeowner-wants...
https://goo.gl/maps/ojrMPag7PyRRw7uP8
Historical streetview doesn't seem to be working but the wall has been replaced multiple times.
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.4829915,-7.0899198...
This farmhouse has regularly had cars, vans and wagons embedded in the front corner over the years. It's on a fast right handed downhill stretch of a rural main road, where drivers often travel well in excess of the NSL in all weather conditions. It's been rebuilt at least ten times to my knowledge, but I moved away in 2000 so I'm sure it's been hit many further times since then. The owner used to park their car out the front, so that used to get taken out each time as well.
This farmhouse has regularly had cars, vans and wagons embedded in the front corner over the years. It's on a fast right handed downhill stretch of a rural main road, where drivers often travel well in excess of the NSL in all weather conditions. It's been rebuilt at least ten times to my knowledge, but I moved away in 2000 so I'm sure it's been hit many further times since then. The owner used to park their car out the front, so that used to get taken out each time as well.
AlvinSultana said:
It happened to me about 20 years ago...
Tossers.
Sounds like even more of a nightmare than I expected - Though sounds like she managed to do a bit more than wedge through the wall!Tossers.
There are a few spots on some of my local roads where the homeowner has obviously rebuilt their garden wall - it's changed shade a couple of times in the same spot, after the third apparent rebuild they installed mountains of home-made "SLOW" signs and giant planters to shield the wall - Eventually council seemed to catch on and added corner-poles.
Haltamer said:
Anyone know of a local spot where people are crashing through the wall all the time? - If anyone has lived in one, any massive impact on house insurance out of interest?
Where I used to live about 2 mins away there was a pair of corners in a country lane that had no lights. You could quite often find a car in the ditch. One memorable (and icy) night I came around the corner to find an ambulance in the ditch. About 10 yards behind the first ambulance, also in the ditch.. It turned out that the first ambulance went off on the ice and then the second one was dispatched and, well............I live next to the Heart of Wales Line in a former crossing keepers cottage. There is a country lane opposite my driveway on a T junction with the main road past my house. One morning I went out of my driveway and noticed black tyre marks all the way across the main road from the lane. These marks ended in the vicinity of the fence between my property and the road where there was a scatter of broken glass but no apparent damage to my fence.
This piqued my curiosity so I went for a walk up the lane. Parked outside of almost the last house in the village there was a FIAT Panda with the front end smashed in like it had gone into the back of a lorry. Returning to my house I realised what I taken to be wooden fenceposts were painted steel, the car hadn't even scratched the paint.
I always wonder about those houses you sometimes get on a slope below a main road, people must occasionally slide off the side of the road, if a car did that at speed and hit your house the damage would be immense, let alone that done by an LGV.
This piqued my curiosity so I went for a walk up the lane. Parked outside of almost the last house in the village there was a FIAT Panda with the front end smashed in like it had gone into the back of a lorry. Returning to my house I realised what I taken to be wooden fenceposts were painted steel, the car hadn't even scratched the paint.
I always wonder about those houses you sometimes get on a slope below a main road, people must occasionally slide off the side of the road, if a car did that at speed and hit your house the damage would be immense, let alone that done by an LGV.
The nearby Sainsburys (Westwood Cross Thanet) keeps getting hit by cars, not the store itself but the access ramp to the side of it, the surface of the road really needs to be addressed as it has very low grip when wet, I think the wall has been repaired at least a dozen times and there's a massive hole at the moment along with smaller indentations further back, there is quite a high curb as well, I expect to see either bollards placed or a reduced speed limit soon.
One of my sons lives right by the main railway line just south of Morpeth Station. It is the tightest curve anywhere on the English rail network, and over the years there have been quite a few accidents where trains didn’t make the bend. In 1984 the overnight sleeper came off at 90 mph. The driver was (allegedly) pissed and forgot to slow down.
His house is built where the string of carriages makes it way up into the estate on the picture. He is hoping there is never a repetition.
His house is built where the string of carriages makes it way up into the estate on the picture. He is hoping there is never a repetition.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/44937...
Rainbow close in old basing made quite a good effort
of jumping an e38 into the top floor
Edited by Reciprocating mass on Friday 22 January 22:51
Roofless Toothless said:
One of my sons lives right by the main railway line just south of Morpeth Station. It is the tightest curve anywhere on the English rail network, and over the years there have been quite a few accidents where trains didn’t make the bend. In 1984 the overnight sleeper came off at 90 mph. The driver was (allegedly) pissed and forgot to slow down.
His house is built where the string of carriages makes it way up into the estate on the picture. He is hoping there is never a repetition.
Amazing that most of the train bogies ripped off at the same point to create a nice pile.His house is built where the string of carriages makes it way up into the estate on the picture. He is hoping there is never a repetition.
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