Thread: Increasing number of motorists crashing into homes and shops lately

Must be while granny is syncing her iPhone to her stereo that it happens!

I remember back in the day when ... ... ...

Its these modern cars that people dont drive they just steer and plant the foot.

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Originally Posted by loanrangie

Its these modern cars that people dont drive they just steer and plant the foot.

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May be it's that new fandangled " Hands free Parking assist" that manufacturers are building into cars.
The Berwick one today she reversed all the way into the bakery and just the had her cars grille poking out.

License stamped "Automatic Only" and even that is too complicated for them?

Maybe those bloody houses and shops shouldn't jump out on the road in front of people!!!!

Had a car drive into the lounge room of a neighbours house a few doors up, a few years back while living in Thomastown. Dead straight road, but the driver tried to turn into the side street where he lived at around 80 (in a 60 zone). When we (and half the neighbourhood) went to see what the huge bang was, we found an old ****ter of a Falcon buried deep in the house. No one home and no one hurt. Driver was wandering drunkenly back to his house.

Police turned up and asked if anyone saw and knew the driver. An old lady who had lived there for ever piped up - "yes, that was such and suches boy from number 33 - I think he was drunk"

Which he was, and was arrested shortly after.

Another one across the road from the high school my son goes to - rolled up just after it happened, but everyone had just finished school for the day and there were several hundred witnesses. P plater dropped a big burn out on a speed bump to impress the kiddies, once he got off the rubber speed bump onto the road again, he got traction and speared off into a local house. To the house owners credit, once the insurance company had temporarily boarded up the front of the house, he spray painted "NO PARKING" on the boards...

Doesn't matter what you do and how you try and stop them, there are just idiots out there every day. More people on the roads equals more idiots on the road equals more homes and shop fronts with cars parked in them.

Not saying its not true, but where did you get the statistic the rate is increasing?

Or does it just seem that way?

The "increase" is entirely due to the ability of the internet to spread accident stories. Cars have been crashing into buildings since forever. Lookit at what I found on the internetz:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPfgUVOjYMI]COMPILATION OF OLD VINTAGE CAR CRASHES/"IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT" HELL YEAH - YouTube[/ame]