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Yep straight over the BMW then along the top of the Audi A4 Avant (which is being towed out by the collision investigators in the first bit of he video) then into the building :crazy:

looks like the sort of thing that would happen only in movies or in a high speed chase between violent criminals, not just outside Lowestoft, though I had a look along the road where it happened and as it seems to be normally fairly quiet but a bit bendy can see how someone could spin out if they are going too fast down it in icy weather..

http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/video_and_gallery_man_seriously_hurt_as_car_collides_with_house_1_1989909

@DaftFader 536455 wrote:

I see this this morning. I couldn’t get over how well conserved the seating area appears to be considering the impact. They must make them things pretty well!

unfortunately for the driver a large amount of bricks and masonry came through the windscreen and landed on his head. He is still in Addenbrookes.

At one of our sites at work we get far younger people from Addenbrookes etc in amongst all the old folk because they have been busted up so bad in road crashes that they aren’t in a much better shape than someone 100 years and TBH haven’t got much long left and there is no euthanasia permitted in the UK. It tends to make the staff at work (myself included) very careful on the roads..

the hospital have graded him as critical but stable and it was serious previously so his physical injuries are probably survivable. whether his quality of life will make it worth it is another matter entirely.

The nasty thing about RTC injuries is many are not fatal (we don’t quite drive like the Mexicans) but really affect peoples quality of life. One chap I saw at work in a wheelchair I thought was only in there to see his nan or grandad – I thought the ambo had brought him along to save money for the NHS and would take him back to hospital and then home as we get one every day which transports people who don’t need “blue light” transport but take patients back and forth between NHS and private facilities.

it was only when I was working on some support calls for the nurses computers I noticed the lads record and the date of birth younger than mine…

that said if you are driving at the 20-30mph speed limit on a residential road and do get into a crash the injuries are usually liable to be minor – FFS folk here who want to drive really fast should take their car on the ferry and go to Germany where they can do it safely… (if they can afford a Audi TT the cost of this isn’t all that much), not just autobahn but they have private track days there as well…

that is interesting though not that surprising as many parts of East Anglia have their own microclimates. Then again I remember getting up at some silly hour last year to receive the weathermap from German Weather Service via HF-radio fax as (I think) know_hope was going to Glade and he’d asked about the weather, looked at it, thought “nah, wind 2-4 beaufort, nothing odd for the season in East Anglia” (and my friends who grew up here didn’t think anything odd of the weather either) only to see a post from those who had travelled from SE England complaining it was cold and they were nearly blown away :laugh_at:

@BioTech 536804 wrote:

We do tend to have rather varied weather and predictions aren’t very good here. I think it’s probably something to do with being coastal.

Thats why I get the coastal weathermaps from the German military, and also check against online updates from the Netherlands as they have a far better website than BBC or Met Office.. I must set up a better listening post to get the radio weather maps (they are like a 1980s fax but over HF radio) but I need to work on the antenna, the last one had the end pole supporting the long wire (which wasn’t in the best place anyway) nearly brought crashing down by the weather :laugh_at: