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[roob_the_doob]

Does anyone know details of the accident on Station Road at lunchtime today? I heard the emergency vehicles (at least 2) going down the hill at some speed, and quite some time later the aftermath was still in evidence - a car going downhill had crossed the road and hit a boundary wall/tree, a police car was still there with lights flashing.

I'm struggling to work out how that might have happened, and I'm wondering if was pothole related.

Hopefully no-one was seriously hurt. From the look of the totalled car the occupant(s) will have been thankful for seat belts.

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Does anyone know details of the accident on Station Road at lunchtime today? I heard the emergency vehicles (at least 2) going down the hill at some speed, and quite some time later the aftermath was still in evidence - a car going downhill had crossed the road and hit a boundary wall/tree, a police car was still there with lights flashing.

I'm struggling to work out how that might have happened, and I'm wondering if was pothole related.

Hopefully no-one was seriously hurt. From the look of the totalled car the occupant(s) will have been thankful for seat belts.

It looked like quite bad damage to me but mostly it looked caused by the car going into a wall.

I too wondered about whether it was pothole related... maybe a car coming down and a car going up both dodging potholes.

[mvjt]

We passed it while the ambulance, fire engines and police were still there. Like those above I also wonder if it was pothole related. The accident was close to the speed camera and I can't recall off hand what the potholes are like at that part of the road.

I hope the driver is doing well.

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There are some pretty bad potholes near there but also there are bollards in the centre of the road which could also have got in the way.

[David P]

There are NO potholes in Station Road that would cause a properly maintained car with a competent driver to end up in someone's front garden.

Let's just stop blaming the council for every single little thing that goes wrong. People need to take some responsibility for themselves.

[Eaton]

There are NO potholes in Station Road that would cause a properly maintained car with a competent driver to end up in someone's front garden.

I thought the same but as I hadn't driven on Station Road for a few days didn't know if a huge one had opened up recently. Station Road is a bit bouncy but none of the potholes that I'd seen last week would have been deep enough to cause a puncture, which could have caused a car to veer out of control if it was being driven fast.

[David P]

So sorry to disappoint the council-knockers and knee-jerk reactionaries but the accident had absolutely nothing to do with potholes.

A car driving down one of the very steep side roads failed to stop at the bottom (foot slipped off the pedal?), went straight across two lanes of traffic and into a tree on the other side. The driver escaped with a badly bruised hand. Thank goodness it wasn't an awful lot worse.

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David... I drive Station Road regularly... it isn't so much the potholes themselves that I was thinking of... it is the cars weaving around to avoid them that might cause an accident.... I had to stop suddenly the other day when going up the hill because a car coming down the swerved across to my side of the road.

Anyway after checking the hill today I realized that there aren't any potholes near where the accident was anyway.... the worst of the potholes are further up nearer The Rise.