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3 Killed when vehicle crashes into an UNPROTECTED Plasma Center

6/13/2021

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 On 12 June, 2021, a high speed vehicle was coming off a highway overpass at a very high rate of speed -- pointed directly at an UNPROTECTED Biomat USA Plasma Donation Center in Pittsburgh PA.  As of this writing, 3 people have died, and at least that many injured either as a result of the crash or the fire that resulted.  Here is a link to the story:  https://www.cbs17.com/news/national-news/3-dead-2-injured-after-driver-crashes-car-into-building-in-pittsburgh/
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The vehicle's point of entry is through a large window area just to the left of the front entrance.  The vehicle was moving at such a high rate of speed, it passed through the outer wall and approximately 200 feet inside, some reports say.  Now, storefront crashed occur more than 60 times per day in the United States, which is more than 20,000 incidents per year.  Thousands are killed and injured as a result, so in that way this incident is not so unusual.  EXCEPT -- look at the direction of approach that the vehicle took from the high speed overpass:
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There is NOTHING between the overpass / offramp and the wall of that building except pavement and painted lines.  Despite high speed vehicles being pointed directly at the front of the building, there is no vehicle barrier of any kind to prevent a storefront crash like this one, which is foreseeable because of the amount of traffic, the speed of traffic, and the line of approach of traffic.  Negligence. 

3 killed and a like number injured.  And it didn't have to be this way.

#storefrontcrash #60timesperday #unprotected #negligence #riskmanagement #riskassessment
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