Fuck Cars

Bollards are cheap, so by all means put them in the requirements.

Ya. If people are getting hurt way too often and a reasonable investment would prevent a commensurate number of injuries, maybe it’s OK to use raw numbers to shock the company/legislators and action.

I would def give you that “X preventable injuries could be avoided for [$Y]/[$Z per injury]”, and some context on how much could be done if that money were spent another ways, would be good.

If people are driving with appropriate skill and care, the number driving into large, well-lit buildings should be approximately zero per year. It sounds like you're willing to excuse a lot of bad driving

I'd say there are likely some sneaky factors in play as well, though - drunk drivers are probably most likely to be driving to a home or to a 7/11 to get more booze/snacks.

Aren't 7/11 usually located on gas station? That also a factor I suppose.

The odds aren't that crazy. There's about 12k 711 stores. More than 1 gets hit per day.

I'd play that lottery.

Yes, usa is overrun with deadly machines. So it's no surprise when they crash into buildings, murder children, etc. It's just big numbers, y'all! It's like two people having the same birthday! Isn't that neato? It's just math! Nothing to see here. \s \s \s

If we know he strikes every day there's a limited distance he can travel between crashes - that should help narrow down our search

These buildings are lay-in-wait ambush predators. They stalk their prey, then bam, car accident. They never see it coming.

Sounds like an argument in favor of mandating bollards to me.

This isn't a 7/11 specific problem. In my area coffee shops tend to be the most common hit, and many of them seem to be a case of someone putting their car into the wrong gear and driving forward when they meant to reverse.

If they are going to demand that 7/11 needs bollards, then just about any business with a parking lot should need them too.

So if a car hit your house and the postman gets hurt you'd hold yourself personally responsible and pay all his costs and stuff?

Yup

I a totally unrelated note, could anyone lend me their car?

You are telling me that statistically speaking, a store is likely to be crashing into within 3 years of its most recent crash

Also a car bumping a wall or even breaking a window doesn't seem like a real problem, feels like this is one of those 'man chokes eating his shoe, shocking statistics show almost all Americans wear dangerous choking hazard shoes!'

Also bollards don't change the situation significantly for the occupants of the car, the only statistic that's actually interesting is how often do people outsidw the car get hurt when it happens - since they're only talking about one tragic incident I'm guessing it's a low number.

@rekabis @fpslem Honestly, I don't think any human is attentive enough to drive a SUV in a town.

It could be a case where 1 7-Eleven car crash per day is the median, but not the majority, with 0 and 2 or more combined being more than 50%, so they mean (but communicate poorly) that most days have 1 or more cars crash into 1 or more 7-Elevens, but they couldn't say that most days have 1 car crash into a 7-Eleven. The only additional information that that would give above simply reporting the 1.14 average is that it's not highly concentrated on a few days, like if 300 of the annual car crashes into 7-Elevens all happened on 7/11 when people jostle over free slurpees.

In short, "average" has too many meanings for its average use.