Zazzoo 🇨🇦Feb 25

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

#Ottawa

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
Show threadWTLFeb 26

@zazzoo I ran past that spot not ten minutes before. This is the second time in a few weeks pedestrians have been injured in this section of Rideau.

It's always the same. Drivers going too fast for the conditions and magically it isn't their fault.

Show threadZazzoo 🇨🇦Feb 26
@WTL Not wearing snow tires, either. Snow tires are a must in our winters. They're law just on the other side of the bridges.
Show threadWTLFeb 27
@zazzoo Bit hard for me to tell from the photo if it has snow tires, but I agree, they should be required.
Show threadZazzoo 🇨🇦Feb 27
@WTL The article included a side shot farther down. I mean it still wasn't definitive, but people don't normally put snow tires on alloy rims. Canadian fashion dictates steel. 😃
Show threadWTLFeb 27

@zazzoo Reasonable. I'm not really a car person. Now, if it was a bike with snow tires, I'd be able to spot those. Then again, if it was a bike, there wouldn't be all the injuries and the death.

I want this driver charged, but also understand that they probably won't.

Show threadZazzoo 🇨🇦
@WTL Surely there will be a charge for this one given somebody is dead....
Feb 27 at 4:46pmWeb
Show threadWTLFeb 27

@zazzoo We'll see I'm doubtful anything will come of it.

I'm very curious as to how fast they had to be going when the roads (and sidewalks) were a complete mess (I ran past there ten minutes prior) and do that kind of damage to the building.