Car ploughs into Boots store in Liverpool

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-67653394.amp

Has anyone seen this from today? A very similar incident happened at a hospital in Wrexham yesterday. I don’t get how it happens - what kind of speed do you have to be going to smash through bollards and a shop window?

They’re invariably automatics and in their panic to press the brake they press the accelerator.

Sometimes it's the driver having a medical episode.

Round here it's usually young men off their heads on some substance or other,eg nitrous oxide, driving high performance cars too fast, losing control and wrapping themselves round a tree, wall etc. Most survive, some don't.

But being charitable, in other places it could well be medical episodes, automatic confusion etc.

Yeah I’ve always been a bit baffled as to how this happens.

It happened to a friend of mine - whilst I was in the car when I was 17, he had a fit (first one) and went through the window of the chip shop. Thankfully, no-one was injured.
Sadly, he died of a brain tumour a few years later.

You don't have to be going very fast at all. In terms of the direction they could have been drunk or having a medical episode.

I don’t know how people manage to confuse the brake and the accelerator. I drive an automatic and the pedals are the same as they are in a manual. Your left foot tucks right out of the way.

That looks like quite a new car. Perhaps they weren’t used to it.

I didn’t think about automatic cars! This one seems like it could have been a medical episode - a miracle that no one was seriously injured.

@underneaththeash I’m so sorry for your loss.

It was definitely going at some speed, it took out a bollard before ploughing through the doors. Only just missed a woman and a pushchair as well.

It was a seizure behind the wheel.

Not necessarily. Many people drive an automatic 2 footed. An old friend who was a chauffer did this. He said it made everything smoother for the passenger.

I think he was having you on. That’s really dangerous and isn’t recommended at all. Especially for a professional driver.

when that happens round here, it's usually a smash and grab. Our local boots has an ATM inside the front door. It was done over recently and the pharmacy was the main target, controlled
drugs

its happened here a good few times and it’s always an elderly driver.

the last one took out the trolley shelter at Asda and nearly pinned her mid 70s daughter between cars when she tried in vain to stop her

I was at our local retail park once and this car came speeding round the corner beeping its horn loudly then carried on and crashed into a fence at the other end of the car park. The fence was broken. I wondered later if there was a fault with the car.