This photo appeared on the BBC website following the recent storms:



It was, of course, a recent scientific discovery that a car (or any large, near-hollow object) can, in fact, pass through a tree (or other dense organic matter), but only if going slowly. Anything under 15mph should be okay for a family car and a large fallen oak.

Either that or someone is making cruel and unfounded insinuations about the intellectual prowess of Her Majesty's Constabularies*.


*Who do a difficult and demanding job in these challenging times, and who are the envy of Europe, Asia, the America's and all the other less civilised parts of the world.