Car crash or Art Installation ?

[ed_pete]

Lordship Lane near Court Lane.

 

[Sue]

😮😮😮

[Penguin68]

Oh, so that's what 'off street parking' means.

[Sue]

Seriously though, I hope nobody was harmed in the making of that, because they must have veered right across the road before crashing, and only just avoided the tree.

They must have been going pretty fast.

Asleep at the wheel? Medical issue? Drunk? Young or stupid people messing about with a stolen car? (Apologies to young people, I know most of you aren't reckless).

It was lucky they didn't hit something going in the opposite direction ( at least, I assume/hope they didn't) before they went over the wall.

But I'm confused, because the broken part of the wall is in front of the car. Did they reverse in an attempt to get the car off the wall, and then made things worse? 😮

Edited 21 hours ago by Sue

[Cyclemonkey]

Luckily that is an old closed telephone exchange building,  rather than someone's house.

[Sue]

I have just noticed that this is being discussed on another thread ( though not the possible art installation aspect 🤣)

But also, I took it as an actual incident, but apparently it's a joke. Duh. 

And not even 1 April.

Anyway, I'm glad nobody was hurt. Clearly I'm very gullible, and very bad at identifying fake photos.

Edited 18 hours ago by Sue

[CPR Dave]

There was another Mercedes crashed  in almost exactly the same spot on Sunday morning a few weeks before Xmas. 

[ed_pete]

1 hour ago, Sue said:

I have just noticed that this is being discussed on another thread ( though not the possible art installation aspect 🤣)

But also, I took it as an actual incident, but apparently it's a joke. Duh. 

And not even 1 April.

Anyway, I'm glad nobody was hurt. Clearly I'm very gullible, and very bad at identifying fake photos.

Sue - I promise you that was no fake photo, not sure that I'm even capable to that.  I took the picture about 12:15 today.

[Sue]

12 minutes ago, ed_pete said:

Sue - I promise you that was no fake photo, not sure that I'm even capable to that.  I took the picture about 12:15 today.

Oh ok, I'm even more confused now then.

Have you seen the discussion on the dangerous driving thread? 

Edited 17 hours ago by Sue

[Cyclemonkey]

It is absolutely real, I walked past the site, complete with car and trashed wall, at about 2pm this afternoon.

Edited 17 hours ago by Cyclemonkey

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

20 mph zone. 2 tonne car. Absolutely standard road violence - add it to the weekly railings being mangled on the South Circular. The only reason it is remarkable is because they managed to plant it on top of the wall.

Oddly, there are some that remain preoccupied by kids on bikes on pavements and some cyclist that didn't stop at a red light as being what's really dangerous around here. I think they are probably motivated by factors other than road safety when banging that drum.

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Dogkennelhillbilly

[first mate]

FWIW, concern at the growing number of bikes and powerful e-bikes, consistently exceeding 20mph, while riding on pavements as well as jumping red lights- even at busy junctions, is also very much about safety and concerns about this and about dangerous driving in cars and larger vehicles should not be mutually exclusive. If you view the roads as already dangerous, do you also want to see pavements and crossings at red lights made even more dangerous by turning a blind eye to reckless cycling behaviour?

Should this thread be in the traffic section?

Edited 3 hours ago by first mate

[HeadNun]

17 hours ago, Sue said:

I have just noticed that this is being discussed on another thread ( though not the possible art installation aspect 🤣)

But also, I took it as an actual incident, but apparently it's a joke. Duh. 

And not even 1 April.

Anyway, I'm glad nobody was hurt. Clearly I'm very gullible, and very bad at identifying fake photos.

It's real. I nearly crashed my car while rubbernecking at it yesterday. 

[Rockets]

4 hours ago, Dogkennelhillbilly said:

20 mph zone. 2 tonne car. Absolutely standard road violence - add it to the weekly railings being mangled on the South Circular. The only reason it is remarkable is because they managed to plant it on top of the wall.

Oddly, there are some that remain preoccupied by kids on bikes on pavements and some cyclist that didn't stop at a red light as being what's really dangerous around here. I think they are probably motivated by factors other than road safety when banging that drum.

 

Let's just hope the driver didn't suffer any sort of medical emergency that might have caused them to crash their car hey.....

Many who are anti-car suggest there is a culture war being waged and when I read posts that include terms like "standard road violence" really makes me wonder if the problem might be from the very people who try to claim one is being waged against them.