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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  • 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.