How did you manage to drive a car through it?

[PepperElf]

We have good parking here. It's not infinite but it's not bad either.

All apartments have parking in a stripe right in front of the apartments, with a couple of sections where there's parking along the front, and an extra row on the other side of the "driving stripe".

The "driving stripe" is of course how you get to the spots, and is maybe 2 car-lengths long. It's wide enough so that 2 cars can pass each other, although we try not to do it too often, or wide enough to allow the dump trucks in to access the dumpsters.


What it shouldn't be long enough for is to get up to enough speed to crash your car into an apartment.

So I'm still unsure of how one of the neighbors managed to do it. All I can think is maybe they drove in too quickly and had a brake failure or something.


All I know is that one day I was walking the dog and wondering, "Gee I wonder why the cops are in the other lot over there?" ... a few days later when walking her by that lot, I realized that the maintenance men I saw parked there for a few days... were rebuilding the wall.

Yep. Someone drove their car into a brick walled apartment, doing enough damage to require rebuilding the wall.




My money's on speeding myself. It's suppose to be 15mph here, and they always put reminders on the monthly notices... but those only work for a week or so. Then the speeders go back to driving however they fuck they want.

Personally I'd like some speed bumps.

[Draper Mel]

My old neighborhood was sort of like that. There was a wide grassy strip with the street divided on either side. Each side was one way, and with parking there wasn't room for passing. There were speed bumps, but people would still drive through too fast. One of my neighbors once threatened to go out in the street with a baseball bat to get people to slow down, because there were kids playing.

[PepperElf]

o. we have room for passing kinda. the strip's maybe a little less wide than say a store parking lot strip. but yeah people speed. but even with that possibility, i'm still boggled that someone managed to drive INTO an apartment.

[Marmalady]

I have heard of people getting into trouble with automatic cars and doing similar things... like this guy.... http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...-automatic-car

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Whenever I'm in a parking lot I'm always way paranoid that one of a few things will happen the moment I pick up any speed above 15 m/h:

A) Someone will pull out of their parking spot without checking and either ram into me or I ram into them.

B) Someone is "cutting lanes" - driving through empty parking spaces - and ram into me or I ram into them.

C) Dummy-Bunny-B decides he is invincible and just steps out into the middle of the road directly in front of my car.

The list goes on. Needless to say, I'm typically going at 10/15 m/h in ANY parking lot.

[Kristev]

Oh, come now. Dumbbunnies can do anything with a car except drive it correctly.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Oh, come now. Dumbbunnies can do anything with a car except drive it correctly.

Yes, but Dumb-bunny-B is the worst of the lot. He's liable to spontaneously explode if looked at funny.

[dalesys]

I have heard of people getting into trouble with automatic cars and doing similar things... like this guy....

My sister's friend's older sister went through the back of the family garage with a manual...

Pop a clutch with me!

[Pizzacommando]

I saw an older lady drive up over the parking bumpers and curb and through the front wall of the jewelery store in the same building as our restaurant. I also watched her get out of the car, open the front door, and walk inside to go shopping.

[Racket_Man]

I saw an older lady drive up over the parking bumpers and curb and through the front wall of the jewelery store in the same building as our restaurant. I also watched her get out of the car, open the front door, and walk inside to go shopping.

I posted THis story in Road Rage about 5 months ago

[Argabarga]

I've said it before, nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to accidents

I firmly believe, that if you give a man enough booze and keys to a car, any car, even a Plymouth Reliant K, he can achieve escape velocity and make geosynchronous orbit within the confines of his own driveway....

[PepperElf]

o god... the K.

I've driven one of those too. Nothing quite like having to pull the entire bench forward just to drive.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

You'd be surprised how stupid some people can be with a motor vehicle.

I think this tale I shared last November on Roadkill is a good example.

As an update to the update I posted on that: the beauty shop did reopen toward the end of the week after the wreck happened. So it was only closed for a week - maybe less than 10 days max, and we've been noticing since that her business has been slowly picking back up.

Just the other day I noticed (Friday I think) that she was open right before I left for work (around 6:30 am) and was still open past 10 that night. So all in all, she's doing okay now.

[ThirdGenRetail]

Personally I'd like some speed bumps.

Are you sure that'd be a good idea? If they went through a wall, imagine if they hit a speed bump at the velocity they had to be going to do that - They'd achieve flight and you'd be seeing a crane removing the car from the second floor! .. And I'm not sure which emote would be appropriate for that statement.

[Racket_Man]

Personally I'd like some speed bumps.

The person in my story (see above link) was going fast enough first hit a slight incline at the entrance to the parking lot, drove over a 4+ inch curb, tore out some undercarriage including the oil pan and then down another curb and into the neighbors driveway.

A mere speed bump would NOT have slowed this car down.