At Least it's Knocked Brexit Off The Top Headline Spot

But it is another calamity - just not a calamitous.

Prince Philip has rolled a Range Rover.

Only onto its side and 4x4s are known for rolling over but he is 97 years old so you have to give him some credit.

Here's the picture:

And here is the BBC story.

 

Only minor injuries and they weren't sustained by The Duke so the BBC are happy.

 

Their report states that he was pulling out of a driveway onto the A149 when the accident happened.  They also report that two people in the other vehicle - a saloon car - were treated for minor injuries, according to reports from Norfolk Police.

 

Norfolk again - what is it about Norfolk?

• Driving with Pliers
• Delivered by Air
• Train Wreck

That's not a driveway - it's a road junction.  Unless it's a very wide driveway  - the sort owned by Royalty.

 

And I'm not seeing a saloon car in that aftermath photo.  There is a VW Sharan/Ford Galaxy/Seat Alhambra people-carrier there though that looks like it may have been a bit involved.

 

I can't figure out how those vehicles would have ended up in those positions.  Someone was speeding?  Someone was trying to kill a pheasant in the road?  Someone was trying to kill a peasant in the road?

 

Will we ever know?

 

I suppose that depends on who was to blame.

El Nombre del Coche

Buenos Días.

According to Autoguide, Seat are opening up the naming of their new model to the general public.

It's going to be an SUV slotting into their range above the Ateca which isn't a bad-looking car despite being an SUV:

There is  certain samey-ness to most SUVs nowadays - mainstream manufacturers all seem to be concentrating on different sized cross-overs.  Which is boring.  But people keep buying the things so I can't really criticise the business model.

 

Shame.

Anyway, Autoguide announce that the new car won't end up with the name Carry McCarface.  This is a reference to the Polar Research Ship The RRS Sir David Attenborough currently being built up the road from my house.  That ship may have been called Boaty McBoatface if the general public had got their way.

But they didn't.

And Seat insist that their cars are named after Spanish places so it's not an issue.

And when they say "above the Ateca", they don't say if it will be a replacement for the Alhambra (which is more of a people-carrier) or it's going to fit into the range between the two.

I've checked the map and, depending on which route you take, half-way between Ateca and Alhambra is a small place called Buendía.  Which means "Good Day" - a very positive name for a car.

Or they could go for a little town to the South-West of Pamplona.

Adiós.