Bath: Car wedged against historic hotel lifted away - How did it get there?

Murphy said:
The picture in that article is deceptive as it doesn't show the missing railings, just past the red/white tape where the man is leaning.
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Bath: Man arrested after car wedged outside hotel

The 19-year old was arrested after the car became stuck at the basement windows of the Francis Hotel.
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You sure they weren't removed due to the car?

My guess is it hit a bollard and basically rode up it and "ramped" over the railings - if they were coming down from Gay Street/Circus too fast, and went wide on the bend then that would make sense with where the car ended up
 
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Haggisman said:
You sure they weren't removed due to the car?

My guess is it hit a bollard and basically rode up it and "ramped" over the railings - if they were coming down from Gay Street/Circus too fast, and went wide on the bend then that would make sense with where the car ended up
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I think if the car was going fast enough to ramp up the bollard and over the railing, it would have probably gone through the wall. You can see bits of brick work below the car as it is being lifted. I suspect it is from the lip that railing is bolted into.
 
Haggisman said:
You sure they weren't removed due to the car?
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You mean removed due to the car smashing through them? Nothings ever certain but I'd be more than a little surprised if a car, no matter how fast it's being driven, would manage to launch itself 3-4 feet in the air and slot itself in a gap no much bigger than the car. Occam's razor and all that.
 
Murphy said:
You mean removed due to the car smashing through them?
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Or removed as part of the work to extract the car.

Murphy said:
Nothings ever certain but I'd be more than a little surprised if a car, no matter how fast it's being driven, would manage to launch itself 3-4 feet in the air and slot itself in a gap no much bigger than the car. Occam's razor and all that.
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It's no stranger/less likely than the car managing to come off the road perfectly in the exact spot where a stretch of railings (barely longer than the car judging from the picture) have conveniently been removed :p

It's definitely a head-scratcher though!
 
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I stayed in that hotel two weeks ago.

I have no idea how anyone could get any speed up there, let alone enough to do that. I have to assume sheer idiocy in this case
 
Not the first time it's happened there. Similar incident a couple of years ago on Laura Place too.
The railings WERE in place before impact.
There is a large hump in the road surface right on that corner, hit it at too high a speed and it can unsettle a car. I'm going out on a limb here, but I'd say our man was probably going a bit to fast...
 
StriderX said:
This is why ULEZ should be instituted everywhere.
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uvarvu said:
Walked there at lunchtime. It was defo going too fast for that corner!
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How do you even get that much speed around there? We work with a web agency right in that area and there are usually so many people/cars etc. round there that going above 30mph would be tricky at the best of times.

Unless they were aiming for the people dressed up outside the Jane Austen centre, I can maybe understand that a bit more.
 
t2na said:
How do you even get that much speed around there? We work with a web agency right in that area and there are usually so many people/cars etc. round there that going above 30mph would be tricky at the best of times.

Unless they were aiming for the people dressed up outside the Jane Austen centre, I can maybe understand that a bit more.
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5am Sunday Morning. So the roads would have been clear
 
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