19 July (Part 2) - Idiot driver causes half a million pounds’ worth of damage
Bonkers
owes its existence to Abbey Road in Belvedere; it was the lies told by the
Highways Department that led to the website’s creation. Basically the Council were encouraged by the GLA
to install cycle tracks and make the road narrower.
Bexley said that there had been no accidents before so the narrower roads
would make things even safer. The Chairman of the European Vehicle Safety
Committee who had issued the guidance on how to safely narrow roads said that
what Bexley had done was rubbish that didn’t follow the guidance at all and they
had created a recipe for collisions.
And so it has proved; when did Bexley Council’s Highways division ever get anything right?
There was another
accident in the early hours of Friday morning and the first reports said a
Chrysler 300C had been doing 100 m.p.h. and wrecked a
£500,000 house. How would anyone know the speed without witnesses? An expert
crash investigator might but not someone who only heard a loud bang.
The damage
to the house is extraordinary and may require it to be completely rebuilt. The
cracks extend well beyond the site of impact. There are five large photographs
on the page that catalogues
Abbey Road accidents. Scroll to the bottom or press the Reverse Order button.
The Tesla Model 3 was parked by the house owner and is unlikely to be seen on
the road again. Imagine being fast asleep and woken by the sort of
‘explosion’ that the idiot driver caused. Obviously he caused the damage
and has been arrested, but Bexley Council must take some of the blame
in view of their total lack of road design expertise.
The man in the yellow jacket is sealing off the gas supply.
There were no fatalities.