Suburban man's case reveals cars slam into storefronts like 7-Eleven with alarming frequency
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Over a 15-year period, 6,253 cars crashed into 7-Eleven storefronts in the U.S. – an average of 1.14 per day.

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Over a 15-year period, 6,253 cars crashed into 7-Eleven storefronts in the U.S. – an average of 1.14 per day.

7-Eleven apparently fought in court to withhold that data from the public.

“They have not been producing that information for many, many years,” Rogers said, “and that’s what’s important about this case - getting this information out about how frequently this happens.”

Rob Reiter is co-founder of the Storefront Safety Council. He was retained as an expert by Carl’s attorneys in this case.

“If you install bollards, you pretty much solve that problem,” he said of the danger.

Reiter advocates for safety bollards or protective barriers being placed in front of storefronts – especially those with parking lots that face the front door.

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  • br3d@lemmy.world
    144·
    3 months ago

    If people are driving with appropriate skill and care, the number driving into large, well-lit buildings should be approximately zero per year. It sounds like you’re willing to excuse a lot of bad driving

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 months ago

      If people are driving with appropriate skill and care,

      Then there would be a lot of road laws and protection devices that become obsolete.

    • bizarroland@fedia.io
      134·
      3 months ago

      No true Scotsman fallacy. Have you met other drivers?

      Half of them are arguing with their spouses, texting, masturbating, arguing, road raging, or sleeping at any one moment.

      The other half are the REALLY bad drivers who are doing all 6 at the same time.

        • bizarroland@fedia.io
          51·
          3 months ago

          Yeah but that’s kind of like saying if I had a billion dollars paying rent wouldn’t be difficult for me.

        • Sauerkraut
          1·
          2 months ago

          Especially in the US where we have nearly 10x the traffic fatality rate of countries like Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, etc.