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YouTube Link to ABC News Story on Storefront Crashes:  Faster Loading.  Also Transcript of Report

12/13/2014

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Link to YouTube posting of ABC News story is HERE

Official ABC News Transcript :  Out of Control: Cars Crashing Into Homes and Buildings Happens More Often Than You Think

Well next here, to an alarming new study tonight. A time little one after images like this one. Just last night, this BMW crashing into a roof of a family's garage in California. No one was hurt. Tonight, Gio Benitez with the Numbers. How often does this happen? It surprised us.

Reporter: We've seen those dramatic and frightening videos. Cars slamming into buildings. This car crashing right into a restaurant, injuring at least nine people. And here, this SUV tears through a convenience store, sending the clerk flying. Just today, a car going airborne, landing on the roof of this California home. And an SUV slamming into a school in Pennsylvania. The driver was taken to the hospital. But while many of us see these cases occasionally, we're now finding out how common they actually are.

Researchers say there are more than 60 vehicle into building crashes each day. More than 3,600 injuries per year. Nearly 500 deaths. Researchers say barriers like these can keep a car from crashing into a building. But it turns out big planters or even concrete garbage cans can help, too.

And now Texas A&M's Texas Transportation Institute is conducting tests to determine what type of barriers will best protect these public places from cars traveling up to 30 miles per hour and weighing up to 5,000 pounds. "These are innocent people. They're walking into a store or going into a doctor's office and somebody else made a mistake and they're getting to pay for their injuries or maybe even with their life."

Reporter: A concrete effort, researchers say, to save lives. Gio Benitez, ABC news, New York.
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Farrell's Ice Cream Crash -- Out of Tragedy Comes An Effort To Pass A Local Ordinance To Prevent Storefront Crashes

12/11/2014

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  Back in April we recounted the story of a tragic case of a senior driver parked in an ADA space who made a simple error and caused his SUV to lurch forward and smash into people sitting on a bench waiting to go into the restaurant.  The 81 year-old driver killed 73 year-old Marisa Malin and critically injured Marisa's granddaughter, Isabel Manalo.

This accident was foreseeable.  It was predictable that a driver in the act of parking or unparking in that ADA space might lurch forward and strike the bench and whoever was sitting on it or standing near it.  IN addition, this accident was preventable.  A very simple barrier, in this case a row of bollards that have since been installed subsequent to the tragedy, would have prevented the surging SUV from striking anyone waiting at the bench.

Fast forward 7 months later:  Isabel is making a great recovery.  The restaurant is now protected so this will not happen again.  The family is healing with the passage of time.  But there is more to the story.

Mike Fleming is the owner of Farrell's and he has vowed that these kinds of preventable accident need to be eliminated.  Victor Manalo, Isabel's father and Marisa's son-in-law, is a city councilman in Artesia California and he has taken it on himself to require some sort of safety barrier between vehicles and patrons and pedestrians at storefront locations such as this one.  These two men are working hard to make sure that this type of storefront crash never happens again in their town.

Please see the coverage from Los Angeles CBS2 on this story -- both the written article and the video.  Thanks to CBS for their story, and thanks to Victor and Mike for working so hard for this cause.  Stay tuned for more information on the Artesia City Ordinance requiring safety barriers and bollards in certain areas of parking lots .
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December 11th, 2014

12/11/2014

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Last night, ABC World News Tonight broadcast a segment entitled  "Out of Control: Cars Crashing Into Homes and Buildings Happens More Often Than You Think"  See the 1:32 second video story
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The video shows many representative crashes, some well known, some very recent.  But the story captured the essence of the problem (out of control cars as a result of error-prone drivers) and it captured part of the solution:  the approval of the new ASTM International test standard F-3016, covering low-speed vehicle barriers such as those that would be used to protect storefronts and pedestrian areas from these kinds of vehicular incursions.

We were pleased and proud that the statistics used by ABC News were attributed to the Storefront Safety Council, which Mark Wright and I founded to identify and quantify this problem and to advocate for solutions.  The new ASTM standard represents years of work by dedicated volunteers and I was very pleased that Dean Alberson of Texas Traffic Institute was interviewed for the story.  Our work with Texas A&M and TTI is a high point of this effort, and we will continue to work closely with them.

60+ times per day, thousands injured, hundreds killed every year.  It doesn't have to be this way.
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