Vehicle Drives Through Barrier

Vehicle Drives Through Barrier ---

*Timeline


1 killed 0 bystanders August 11, 2014 Motorhome Careens Down Steps at U Washington Tacoma Campus  In Tacoma, Washington the 65-year-old driver was killed when she sped down 19th street shouted for help then drove into and over  the staircase that runs down the hill through the heart of the University of Washington Tacoma campus.  Investigators believe the vehicle experienced a mechanical problem as there were no indications the driver could stop it, she said. No pedestrians were hit in the crash. The driver picked up enough speed picked up speed, 60 or 70 mph to demolish the protective concrete barrier and a large planter designed to protect against amok vehicles. newstribune

1 hurt, building  damage, car destroyed August 9, 2014 Mini Cooper Crashes Into UK Hopwood Hall College In Manchester England, a mini cooper nearly hit two pedestrians as it went out of control, smashed through the median and barriers and into a building at Hopwood Hall College at Manchester Road at the intersection of Drake. The driver, a 21-year-old man, suffered head injuries and was taken to Salford Royal Infirmary for treatment. dailymail

2 injured July 31, 2014 Car Crashes Through Barriers Into Ohio Sporting Goods Store "A Sandusky Charles Hacker, 78 and his wife plowed his Cadillac through the front of Dick’‍s Sporting Goods in Erie County’‍s Perkins Township after suffering a medical condition, narrowly missing employees and shoppers before hitting the back wall" They crashed into a concrete bollard barrier in front of the store, uprooting it and taking it with the car through the front glass doors and displays, through the shoe department, and into a wall that separates the store from a storage area before crashing into the back wall of the building.(making a bullseye through the front door is a strong indicator somebody was aiming carefully, not out of control) two employees and a man shopping for shoes with his young son had to jump out of the way. Mr. Hacker told authorities he did not remember the crash.  toledoblade [2]  [3]

1 injured as vehicle hits pedestrian at sports event July 16, 2014 Stolen golf buggy crashes through barriers at UK Open Championship   (shafqana,  sky news, telegraph) At Hoylake at Merseyside in the UK, a man was arrested arrested on suspicion of assault after driving a golf buggy crashes through barriers at speed before coming to rest on a grass bank at the golfing Open Championship and hitting a security guard before it crashed into a barrier.

5 dead 38 injured Monday October 28, 2013 Jeep Plows Through Sidewalk At Tiananmen Square in China  At about noon in Beijing's Tinanmen Square, a jeep squeezed by the only opening in a barrier, entered a sidewalk and drove nearly 500 yards driving over tourists and police, until it hit a column near the portrait of Mao Tse-tung and caught fire. The driver and two passengers were killed. Casualties were later revised to five dead and 38 injured.

August 3, 2013 Venice Beach Driving Rampage  Los Angeles California. 38 yr old Nathan Campbell deliberately drove a car through a crowd at the Venice Beach boardwalk, injuring 16 and killing Italian newlywed Alice Gruppioni on her honeymoon. Police are searching for a motive since terrorism was quickly ruled out. Campbell was arrested two hours later after turning himself in. He was charged with murder, 16 counts of assault with a deadly weapon and 17 counts of hit-and-run. He was a transient living in a late model Dodge Avenger who had served time for shoplifting in Colorado. The public defender called it "horrendous accident", not a "rampage", and Campbell pleaded not guilty, saying he was struggling to get the car shifted out of park when it went out of control and somehow slipped through the only gap in row of anti-car barriers. Video showed the car hit crowds, then accidentally back up and then make another pass at the throng.

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