Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/South Kensington crash
as per nom. Routine news coverage of something that is not otherwise notable had it not initially been misinterpreted as something bigger. As GracefulSlick said, had we waited for the first police press briefing (as I think we always should before creating such articles), we wouldn't be here. I'm ambivalent about merging to the Exhibition Rd article. As traffic accident, definitely not notable as event to add. As a kind of reflection about media and police overreaction, it may just be of interest. But in a different context, probably failing . I'm just thinking back to London in the 80s and 90s. If we'd include every suspect IRA "package" that causes a scare with similar police cordons that in the end turns out to be nothing, we'd need hundreds such entries. The difference to the 90s, if you'd miss the 20 second clip in the local news that evening, you wouldn't even know it happened. pseudonym
— User:Jake, 06:44, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:10YT (Wikipedia:Recentism)