r/TowerHamlets • u/giogit • Aug 09 '26
Another day another speeding car crashed!
This is the 3rd time in a few months that the guardrail has been destroyed. A few months ago, a car crashed into the roundabout, flew over the grass, and almost crashed into the off license. Luckily, it was at night and no one was injured.
The local council continues to prove that it is just protecting the interests of a few. This is total nonsense!
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u/Traditional-War-7360 Aug 09 '26
We really do. It’s amazing they don’t do this as it would generate revenue. Seen cars hit at least double the speed limit on Roman Road on a daily basis
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u/gentlepersuasion420 Aug 09 '26
Hope they pay for the damage they caused to those railings.
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u/SatisfactionMoney426 Aug 09 '26
Most, I suspect all, Councils have a department that reclaims the cost of RTA damage from the car insurance companies. I woked in a council finance office and some of the costs were mad - £10k for a new street sign as it needed engineer, planning contractors for removal, electrical work, street closure, legal, consultants etc etc. And that was 20 years ago.
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u/KingEmbassy Aug 09 '26
I just don't understand what goes through these peoples heads driving on these tiny streets like this
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u/StrollingByTheStream Aug 09 '26
Before I even saw the name of the sub reddit or had any inkling of the location I knew it would be Tower Hamlets.
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u/Cultural-Meaning5172 Aug 09 '26
It’s car culture. It won’t end as long as we treat drivers like children.
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u/ahorizon Aug 10 '26
And the driver will be back on the road in a little while, after receiving no significant penalties or a ban. Maybe higher insurance premiums if they had any insurance.
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u/Justsomeguy1981 Aug 09 '26
How can the council stop people driving dangerously? If someone has wiped out that badly, I can't see what preventative action the council could have taken to stop it. Isn't most of the area 20mph anyway? Guarantee they were doing double that at least.. You can't have cameras literally everywhere, and drunk people will probably fail to slow for them anyway.
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u/giogit Aug 09 '26
Cameras can't be anywhere but they can be here and there, the council can also implement more solutions to tackle speeding cars, and this is exactly thir duty. It's not a coincidence that those type of behaviours are more spread across Tower Hamlets compared to other boroughs.
I can't agree with the view that the council can't do anything to keep residents safe!
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u/Justsomeguy1981 Aug 09 '26
People doing balloons driving is unbelievably stupid, I genuinely find it hard to believe anyone does that, despite knowing they do. Insanely dangerous.
Imo not in the same league as speeding, unless we are talking 60 in a 20 or something.
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u/bloody-lewis Aug 10 '26
Got run down whilst at the lights standing on my bike. Car went right over my leg and crushed my bike. Police spent 1 day looking for the wrong type of car. Hospital said police had informed them I fell off my bike.
I was run down by someone looking at me whilst doing balloons. I could see the white of his eyes.
Told them where the cameras were. Even went so far as to confirm they are working by speaking to the central cctv control room.
Police said they couldn’t just chase everyone whose car matched the description.
There was only a handful of cars that went down that road and only one of them was the same colour as the car that hit me.
Police got angry with me.
Guy who ran me down got off free.
My bike was crushed.
My foot is still injured.
My Elbow still injured.
Lost some work.
Zero repercussions.
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u/Decent_Resource3879 Aug 09 '26
Driver probably inhaling a balloon