A vehicle crashed into a medical building Thursday morning in northeast Miami-Dade. The crash was reported in the area of Northeast Miami Gardens Drive and 14th Avenue. Witnesses told police that an elderly woman was behind the wheel. The woman was shaken up by the incident, but also was not injured. Her family members said that they are happy she and others were not hurt.
About half of all of these types of accidents are caused by “pedal error” which can occur when drivers mistake their gas pedals for their brakes. Drivers can also confuse Drive with Park on their automatic transmissions and drivers of all ages get distracted or suffer medical emergencies and fail to brake in time, or at all, when entering or leaving parking areas. Drivers who confuse the accelerator with the brake pedal or put their car in drive instead of reverse can accidently drive their cars into buildings, through windows, or onto sidewalks. In other cases, the driver is not at fault.
Additionally, some cars involved in storefront crashes may have swerved to avoid an accident and lost control. Many experts suggest that if landowners install protective barriers and consciously hire engineers that can design effective parking areas, these crashes don’t have to happen. As a result, a common question in such storefront car crash cases is whether the owner of the property had a duty to erect barriers to protect persons on the premises from being struck by such cars.
The vehicles may have been driven by drunk drivers, inexperienced drivers, negligent drivers, drivers whose brakes failed, or drivers whose feet slipped from the brake to the accelerator. The vehicles may have come from an adjoining highway or from the landowner’s own parking area. The injured persons may have been inside the landowner’s building, on the landowner’s outside walkway, at its walkup window, entering or leaving the landowner’s building, or in an outside area set aside for their use.
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