O/T car drives through building any of you seen it???

Well I have lost count but seems to be everyday thing. Just talked to industrial place on stuff for tomorrow lady said there store front was down, yep car drove through it!!! Place wife worked had restaurant in building, HAD, car demolished it. Many years ago kid in school had car drive through his house late at night, (he live under a hill on narrow street) Snow plow truck hit one in a bad storm (that was a tight street too) And last a porch, deck got taken out (sharp corner and auto racing) Some you can kind of see but some have a walmart size parking lot!!! what are your stories or is this just a local thing?? Most of them I can't picture and there has been quite a few more.

Was all over the news.

Mark
Here it is

Happens so much in Buffalo Ny a lot of stores have erected bollards to stop them . Bill

She was aiming for her garage(door open)

Do people really get the brake and the throttle mixed up? Seems to always be the story. Or are they just distracted by whatever and loose it.

Greg

I have heard of it often. At work we repaired a pole building that the owner's wife came home from town, her high heel shoe came off and got caught in the gas pedal, the car took off and went thru the front wall with enough speed that the car landed on top of two classic pickups that were inside, demolished the trucks, even broke a couple trusses in the roof.

There is an office building in the town just north of me that has been run into several times. There is a restaurant across the street, several people have come out of the restaurant, put the car in reverse and proceed to back across the street and into the other building!

Near where I grew up, there was a state highway that came down a pretty good hill into town. There was a stop and T intersection at the bottom. Directly across the street sat a house, just at the edge of the sidewalk. I don't think anyone ever hit the house, but there were a few near misses! You couldn't have paid me enough to live there considering the number of semis that came down that hill in a day.

A small town near me used to have a Chrysler Plymouth dealer from somewhere in the late forties till sometime in the late seventies. The old folks liked to buy locally and they were buying big Newports and New Yorkers with 383's and 440's from this dealer. Evidently the foot feed and brake pedal were too close together on those cars because once in awhile a Chrysler was crashed into a storefront or tree when the elderly driver would hit the wrong pedal. Dad was coming out of the cafe one day and heard squeeling tires. He looked around for the racket and down the street there was a big old Chrysler nosed up against a store front with the tires smoking. Another one went through the front of the post office. My great uncle went over a parking lot sidewalk with a Newport and hit a tree head on. When the old Chryslers and elderly owners were gone the store fronts and trees were safe again.

Went to the dentist this morning, window was boarded up. Car had gone over the concrete parking curb, up over sidewalk and into building. It had high centered on curb then spun the tires and over 6" step up to sidewalk and rear tires over parking curb then hit wall. You could see black tire tracks on parking curb and edge of sidewalk. Older lady sitting in front of window, window frame and glass hit here. Moved side wall 6" popping that side window frame too. Lucky she was not hurt bad, a few glass cuts and small bruises. Older female driver in big older rear wheel drive Buick....James

Mark, thats pretty funny, made me laugh.

Good one Mark! I love that movie, went to see it about 5 times when it came out!

Reminds me of an incident that happened about the time that movie came out...

Lake Worth TX, Jacksboro Highway, a notorious stretch of road, low bottom honky-tonks, tote the note car lots, liquor stores, and no shortage of fitting patrons!

Late one night a car stops in front of a bar called "Inez 50-50 Club. (The running joke was "you had a 50-50 chance of coming out alive" LOL). He sits outside blowing his horn until several people came out to see what the commotion was. He yells out the window "Hey ya'll, watch this!"

He makes a full throttle, gravel slinging, curb jumping run, diagonal across the busy intersection, directly across K Mart parking lot, and crashes full speed through the front doors of the store!

He made it all the way to the back of the store before so much stuff balled up under the car it wouldn't go any further!

The store was closed, but there were stockers and janitorial crews inside. No one was hurt, but since people were in there, he was charged with attempted murder, along with DUI, (imagine that)!

What a moment of glory! Made some Mama really proud of her boy!

I deliver masonry products for a living. One day I had a delivery of building block for a dentist office next to a quick lube place. Come to find out, A woman came out of the quick lube place, and drove straight into the trash enclosure for the neighboring office. She went thru the first block wall pushing the dumpster into the other wall totaling the entire enclosure. Kinda tough on that Corvette too.
Tim in OR

Numerous times, not far from here there is a "T" at the bottom of a long hill with a gas station across the street been hit a number of times and the house next door once. Another "T" intersection house was hit twice, once by a truck, the whole house was moved off the foundation. A guy I knew a little had an altercation in a bar one night, went out got in his truck and drove it through the front wall of the bar.

When I worked at the car dealership they told a story of the time an older fellow came in wanting a light installed under the dash so he could see which pedal was which !

Valvoline quick change got rammed by an old lady who put foot on gas and then pulled it into drive ! This was an older full size car from the 80's happened in like 2000 ? Guys working in there said they could hear the engine wind clear up and lucky they got out of the way before she hit the building.

Grandma was a notorious backseat driver and never had her license. One afternoon on Grandpa and Grandma's 3 block trip to the post office with Grandpa at the wheel they managed to hit the funeral home, in all irony, with their mint '67 Tempest. At 85 Grandpa recovered, but never came home. The old brick funeral home weathered the experience, but the Tempest was done.