Sure seems to be a lot of people smashing into buildings with their cars lately. Last month there was that guy who drove into a TD Bank at Billings Bridge. Luckily nobody was hurt in that one.

Today's was much worse with the driver hitting pedestrians and crashing into the mission on Cobourg - 1 person dead and others injured.

The heck is going on? The weather has been snowy and slippery, but I can't see that being an excuse.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-vehicle-building-crash-rideau-cobourg-9.7105141

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1 dead, 4 injured after SUV crashes into Rideau Street drop-in | CBC News

One person was killed and four others injured when a vehicle crashed into a drop-in centre at the corner of Rideau and Cobourg streets in downtown Ottawa on Wednesday morning.

CBC

@zazzoo There are a lot of people driving who shouldn't be. There are a lot of vehicles on the road which weigh far more than they should, making them harder to stop when something goes wrong. There's a lot of anger out there, and people making stupid, angry choices. Any of these, none of these, other reasons--there's just so much going on.

There's a Shoppers Drug Mart near me that's had their front windows driven through half a dozen times in the last ten or fifteen years. They now have concrete bollards out front, but I think even those have been beaten once or twice. They keep a lot of laptops, PS5s and stuff up in that front section, as well as the cash registers, just sayin'...

@ZenHeathen Yes, I've been noticing a lot more places with bollards. I guess I know why now 🙄