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[dik]

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Several people have been injured and killed, and multiple others were trapped after a car crashed into the Biomat USA Plasma Center on the 1300 block of Western Avenue.

The car slammed 200 feet into the building, and witnesses reported seeing the car traveling at high speeds before crashing, according to Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich.

One person was transported in critical condition, there are three fatalities and one person sustained minor injuries.

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[byrdj]

street view comming off the bridge towards building

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.449...4!1syG2iqeG90hDVHgTK7cXAew!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

 

[LittleInch]

Interesting bits of kit but I suspect rather expensive and pretty deep.

My point was that unless you identified a threat either accidental or deliberate, you don't install them on "normal" buildings.

Protecting buildings against vehicle impact like this might become a bit more common.

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[LittleInch]

You can only speculate that if the vehicle was going as fast as people said maybe it served our crashed into a vehicle turning right into that like the silver car.

It's not really directly in lineso would understand why no one thought this was a credible event.

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[Alistair_Heaton]

After someone tried to take out Glasgow airport with a car these bollards are pretty common in the UK and various other places in Europe.

 

[Tomfh]

Interesting bits of kit but I suspect rather expensive and pretty deep.

The shallow versions have ~200mm thick footings. Pretty amazing really.

These hostile vehicle bollards are going in all over the place due to the risk of vehicle attack.