Car Lorry Attack

Continuing the occasional series, a lorry attack.

From The Daily Mirror:

This was the shocking scene of devastation left after a coal lorry crashed into a house today leaving a woman dead. The 55-year-old, who lived in a ground-floor flat in the two-up, two-down property, died at the scene this afternoon.

A 60-year-old man who also lived in the flat and the driver of the truck, who is 54, both sustained minor injuries and were taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital. One other man who was in the building at the time of the crash, in Main Street, Fairlie, North Ayrshire, shortly before 2pm, was taken out unhurt.

Eyewitness Steve Graham, chairman of Fairlie Community Council, said: "I walked up and had a look. There was a lorry deeply embedded into the corner of an old Victorian sandstone building. It is a coal lorry which for whatever reason has lost control and has ploughed into the house across the road."

He added: "This was an accident waiting to happen. There have been a number of near misses but nothing on this scale."

I dunno. On my mental checklist of "things to look out for when thinking about buying or renting a house" is "how likely is it that a car will crash into it?" Is it just me who thinks/worries about these things?