Car drives into apartments in Herne Hill!

[Crispy]

The curb is almost flush on that corner, IIRC.

 

[Ms T]

Walked past it on my way to the dentist. I can't believe how much damage that car did!

 

[maomao]

Walls on new build houses are mostly shit and have no load bearing value at all. Just a brick facing over some insulating blocks.

 

[Jonti]

Usually, the idiot boy racers manage to get a little further round that corner to smash into #273, the house with the red painted front garden wall.

Railton Road is now closed at the Herne Hill end, and the stairwell (the car was driven into the common stairwell) is being demolished.

 

[hendo]

I feel so sorry for the folk that live there. It was a mad scheme: those flats are at the end of the road that sees some of the silliest driving in South London.

 

[Pie 1]

And as well as totalling a house & his car:

The motorist, in his twenties, and his passenger, a girl in her late teens, were arrested for possession of drugs. The man was also held on suspicion of drink driving.

So, that little drive went well then didn't it

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I feel so sorry for the folk that live there. It was a mad scheme: those flats are at the end of the road that sees some of the silliest driving in South London.

I think you should be the local consultant for sensible decisions.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Walls on new build houses are mostly shit and have no load bearing value at all. Just a brick facing over some insulating blocks.

From the picture in post 28, it looks like the stairway exterior wall is a single course of brick, no breezeblock, just plasterboard fixed to battens on the brickwork.

 

[pboi]

those german cars dont fuck about

 

[sleaterkinney]

The funny thing is that there's a running joke around here about how long they took to build them. Literally years. I could have built them on my own in a fraction of the time and I've got great big fat monkey hands. I noticed the other day that someone has finally moevd in and felt sorry for their forthcoming years of negative equity and shoddy build hell. Then this. Kerpow! I can't help but laugh, to be honest.

I thought they were still building them, at least until recently. they do look shoddy, but then most of that new-build stuff does anyway.

 

[Bob]

I'm pleased to say that despite it happening at 4.15am, and living within sight of it, Mrs Bob & I slept through it.

 

[Ms T]

And as well as totalling a house & his car:



So, that little drive went well then didn't it

Explains why he panicked when he saw the coppers though. The irony is that they weren't after him, until he drove into the flats, that is.

 

[maomao]

From the picture in post 28, it looks like the stairway exterior wall is a single course of brick, no breezeblock, just plasterboard fixed to battens on the brickwork.

A single layer, or a 4 1/2 inch wall, a course is a single horizontal row of bricks.

 

[Choc]

I went past there today and from all i could see it looked like they where taking the house down. so i thought it had something to do with wrong building height etc planning permission type of thing.

if that was a car trashing in there i would really not recommend anyone ever moving in there -the whole bloody staircase lay bare!

 

[Crispy]

From the picture in post 28, it looks like the stairway exterior wall is a single course of brick, no breezeblock, just plasterboard fixed to battens on the brickwork.

In the brick areas it's block, insulation, brick. In the white render areas, it's block, insulation, render (no outer block layer). Good enough for a shared staircase IMO.

Seriously guys, I wouldn't call this 'shoddy' construction. It got hit by a speeding car - a big one too. If you want a building to withstand that sort of impact, you're talking reinforced concrete or solid stone masonry of substantial thickness.

 

[Foucault's Wife]

How did I miss this?

I tell you how, bloody swine flu leaving me comatose for three days that's how. But bloody hell.

I must say I am quite impressed with how well the Merc held up, the same cannot be said about the wall.

And the driving on Railton road really is silly isn't it.

 

[Bob]

Wow, that's quite a mess!

That's a photo taken by my neighbour - who woke up at the time of the crash - and ambled down to take a few photos - which he then sold to the Standard.

 

[newbie]

In the brick areas it's block, insulation, brick. In the white render areas, it's block, insulation, render (no outer block layer). Good enough for a shared staircase IMO.

Seriously guys, I wouldn't call this 'shoddy' construction. It got hit by a speeding car - a big one too. If you want a building to withstand that sort of impact, you're talking reinforced concrete or solid stone masonry of substantial thickness.

If you want a building to withstand that sort of impact, you're probably talking death! Energy & momentum are absorbed as the wall crumples, so the car decelerates rather than simply squashing itself.

 

[Crispy]

Yeah, that too!

 

[London_Calling]

"Shoddy" doesn't really come into it; building regs is building regs.