The War on Cars"Over a 15-year period, 6,253 cars crashed into 7-Eleven storefronts in the U.S. – an average of 1.14 per day."
ASmellyOgre@TheWarOnCars
For those who don't want to break out the calculator for the figures at the end of the article, that's more than seven people killed in the US every day by drivers hitting store fronts.
For those who don't want to break out the calculator for the figures at the end of the article, that's more than seven people killed in the US every day by drivers hitting store fronts.
Ms. Denie@asmellyogre @TheWarOnCars Either there are a ginormous number of these stores, or that is a lot of people hitting store fronts.
Florian Schmidt@TheWarOnCars
Complete with "stepped on the gas instead of the brake" bullshit.
What do people have to do to get a driver's license nowadays?
Complete with "stepped on the gas instead of the brake" bullshit.
What do people have to do to get a driver's license nowadays?
small, primitive, wingless@schmidt_fu @TheWarOnCars passing a driving test in which you might not be as sleep deprived as you are during any other time you might be using the car 💀
😀🚲@TheWarOnCars if only bollards we had some bollards idea about bollards what could bollards be done bollards about cars bollards
@enobacon @TheWarOnCars boosting this because keep forgetting what they're called and hopefully this will help
Harald@TheWarOnCars I couldn't believe the numbers, so I searched
statistics store front crashes per year
and got the first 10 results as www.storefrontsafety.org . Even forcing a Wikipedia result, it cited this site. The reported numbers are similar.
Such monoculture looks weird, reminding of conspiracy theories. But the site looks legit and does not seem to try selling a magic cure, so I tend to believe it. 🙂 (Not that I would easily doubt any stupidity related to cars, but numbers are numbers.)
Ian@TheWarOnCars This reads like an Onion headline.
Significant2300@TheWarOnCars my dad did this in 1978 when I was a kid, with me in the car, it was about 7am and he stopped for coffee while taking me to school before heading to work. I was 6. I still don't know how it happened. He seemed befuddled by it. I never really thought much of it until I saw this story.
PictoPulse356@TheWarOnCars Amazing hahaah
🚲@TheWarOnCars Back on Twitter, I started building a bot that grabbed any headlines about cars crashing into buildings every hour and tweeting them out. The library I was using to query Google News stopped working, which killed my motivation to finish the project, but there were lots of cars crashing into buildings every single day.
Demian@TheWarOnCars another big reason corner stores are better than convenience stores.
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> 7-Eleven apparently fought in court to withhold that data from the public.
> “If you install bollards, you pretty much solve that problem,” [the expert retained by Carl’s attorneys in this case] said of the danger.
suddenly feeling a lot less bad about a bunch of 711 closures around my city
> 7-Eleven apparently fought in court to withhold that data from the public.
> “If you install bollards, you pretty much solve that problem,” [the expert retained by Carl’s attorneys in this case] said of the danger.
suddenly feeling a lot less bad about a bunch of 711 closures around my city