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Guess what happened here? Well, I don't know, precisely, but there might be a clue in the second photo below that isn't mentioned in the article here


Significant damage caused to a Hinckley taxi office after car collides into building

https://www.fosse107.co.uk/hinckley/new ... -building/



A car had collided with the taxi office building in Station Yard at Hinckley train station at around 9.10 am this morning.

Leicestershire Police has said that no life-threatening or life-changing injuries were reported and no-one was arrested.

Fosse 107 contacted A1 Taxis who use the office and they confirmed that no employees were in the building when the incident happened.

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service have said the collision has caused 'significant damage to the building.'

Bigger photo:
https://mmo.aiircdn.com/216/679b8baf3ef58.jpg

The Leicester Mercury has the more dramatic photos, and also another more concrete hint


Dramatic pictures show aftermath of taxi office crash

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news ... xi-9906317

There was significant damage to the building

https://i2-prod.leicestermercury.co.uk/ ... WA0000.jpg

https://i2-prod.leicestermercury.co.uk/ ... 0002-1.jpg

A car smashed through a taxi office building in Leicestershire this morning (Thursday, January 30), causing significant damage. Emergency services were called to the scene after the vehicle crashed into A1 Taxis' office in Station Yard, Hinckley.

The incident happened at around 9.10am, when the car reportedly left the Tesco car park before striking the building. Police said no life-threatening nor life-changing injuries were reported as a result of the collision.

Crews from Hinckley Fire and Rescue Station, including a technical rescue team, attended the scene at 9.34am. A building inspector was later called to assess the damage.

A Leicestershire Police spokesman said no arrests had been made in connection with the incident. Officers attended the scene to deal with the aftermath of the crash, they added.

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service said there were no people trapped, and no casualties at the scene. The incident was handed over to police and a building inspector for further investigation, with emergency services leaving the scene at 11.24am.

So presumably someone pressed the wrong pedal, or a 'medical episode' or maybe a handbrake issue; who knows?

Driver was lucky though, assuming they were in the car - amazing that those bricks didn't go through the screen

Looking at the Streetview from a few years ago, it looks like someone in the office has died

Amazed that's not blurred out...

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.5358587 ... FQAw%3D%3D

That is actually quite funny.

Maybe that fella was driving the car that wiped the office out.

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looking at google maps I can't see where a vehicle could roll from and hit the building doing that much damage. I think far more likely someone entered the road at speed and lost control.

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Yes, I think my handbrake theory is a bit far-fetched - I was concentrating more on the car than the building, and unless it was an exceptionally weak building a car simply rolling into it presumably wouldn't cause damage like that, and there's not much of a slope evident to get up much speed if it was some kind of handbrake incident.

Indeed one possibility is that the car came along past the fuel station, and then veered towards the office - on the Google view below from just past the fuel station, the office is middle-centre on screen and there's a silver car sitting where the errant car would have gone, although presumably there was no car parked there at the time of the incident.

Alternatively, the car came down through the actual car park - pretty sure it could get up to sufficient speed there to cause the damage to the building. And I was slightly swayed by the description in the press article that the car "reportedly left the Tesco car park", but who knows, precisely?

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.5358051 ... FQAw%3D%3D

And because it was 9.30 in the morning, and in view of the type of people you tend to find in Tesco's at that time, I was thinking more in terms of the medical episode thing and/or pressing the wrong pedal, as opposed to the boy racer/TWOCer scenario, but who knows?