Car crashed into cafe at FH station

Looks as if vehicle crashed through wall of cafe at Forest Hill station. Area cordoned off with tape but only stunned commuters in attendance.

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What time did this happen?

No idea Rox… I didn’t even notice until I saw a few people taking photos and thought I’d have a look.

There are no lights in the cafe… I do hope no one was hurt.

The London Fire Brigade were called just before 7.30am and the area was cordoned off. A spokeswoman said: “We sent two fire engines after reports of a car in collision with a shop. “Nobody was trapped and nobody was injured.”

It’s a nice little place too. Often overlooked amongst the more trendy places in the area but does decent grub at good prices…

I see you’ve started driving again…

I actually thought it was your car at first.

On a serious note here, who is responsible for the damage?

The cafe owner or the car owner?

Both will have excess to pay on insurancei (if it’s in place & hopefully it is) but I’m genuinely interested to find out who will pick up the bill.

I hope it’s not the cafe as they were not at fault.

My thinking here is going back to when the bakery (walrus painting now white & no 41 off the top of my head on D Rd) had a car go through the window some 20 years ago & the shop owner at the time forgot to renew his insurance policy. Hence why this was closed for so long & had to be sold. Back then the shop owner was expected to replace all damage as far as I know.

Hope this is not the case now & hope the cafe gets back up and running asap.

It will be the responsibility of the person causing the damage, in this case, the car driver. Quite a new PEV by the looks of it so hopefully insured.

A ‘15’ plate going by @starman’s photo. It’s pixelated out in the Standard’s pic.