Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[danbrotherston]

It's seems there's an epidemic of driving into the plaza at Lorraine and Heritage. Someone crashed into Grainharvest Breadhouse earlier in the week, and now someone else has crashed into the laundromat in the same building. In 2015, someone apparently crashed into the Lifelabs in the same building too.

https://twitter.com/josh_orita/status/14...5236438017

Is anyone able to make any sense of it? Normally I attribute crashing into building to carelessness likely caused by being distracted, but in this case, due to the distance from the road and the angle of the crashes, it is likely that the accidents happened while they were parking. The most plausible scenario in that context is that someone confused their brake and gas pedals, but that seems extraordinarily unlucky for the plaza that two accidents of that profile would occur in such short succession.

I think it's the birthday paradox...it's likely that it's within the expected frequency, and it just seems exceptional because humans are bad at random.