No Parking - a driver in East Africa had a notion to leave his car rather too close to his house - image courtesy of World Highways reader Francis Gicheru
January 21, 2014
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No Parking - a driver in East Africa had a notion to leave his car rather too close to his house - image courtesy of World Highways reader Francis Gicheru
The very people who urge drivers to use more caution are not immune to driving errors themselves, as the video here shows.
Speed is sometimes involved and so is simply lack of due care. A speeding police car with its lights flashing and horns blaring may have the right of way, in law or by courtesy, but in many cases the police driver should take note of dangerous situations.
At times police drivers also can make a simply mistake, as recently happened in the Spanish Mediterranean city of Barcelona. A
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An Australian woman had a lucky escape when a parking error came close to killing her. The woman was manoeuvring her car into a tight space on a multi-storey car park in Melbourne when the vehicle broke through a barrier and fell nearly 20m to the ground. Witnesses described seeing the car bounce off a building to the rear and then bounce off the car park during its descent. The impacts appear to have slowed the vehicle's fall sufficiently for the woman to survive the incident. She was taken to hospital aft
