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Orange County Florida Task Force Will Present Recommendations for Day Care and Preschool Safety on Tuesday 10 February

2/7/2015

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In response to the KinderCare tragedy last April, Orlando and Orange County officials appointed a task force to make recommendations to prevent future tragedies from occurring.  This Tuesday 10 February, the Task Force is going to make their recommendation.

Chief Otto Drozd of the Orange County Fire Department has worked hard to understand the scope of the problem, best practices for prevention of the problem, and practical standards and ordinances that might be applied to make children and teachers safer.   He has sent us reports on building strikes, loss of control accidents, and other data which is invaluable to us.  We in turn sent him national and statewide data on vehicle-into-building crashes, along with samples of local ordinances to review, ASTM test standards that apply to barriers and bollards, as well as dozens of photos pertaining to vulnerabilities and protection of child care facilities.
Orange County Fire's data on 911 calls and run records in response to vehicle-into-building run rates is invaluable.  We will be kicking off a campaign to get such records from departments large and small around the country in an effort to learn more about the scope of the problem, impacts on communities, and the costs to cities and counties who have to respond to these private property incidents.

We will be paying close attention to these proceedings in the coming week and will be posting as new information comes in.
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Tragedy Prevented at Hope Head Start in New Mexico When Barriers Stop Two Cars From Crashing Into a Daycare in Albuquerque.

2/3/2015

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"Thank God we have those barriers right there." 

That was the comment of a Head Start director after two cars collided at a busy Albuquerque intersection and both cars crashed into the front of a daycare and preschool.
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As the Task Force in Orlando Florida completes there work on a new ordinance to protect daycare centers in Orange County (see the press coverage HERE ) this event in Albuquerque proves the point.  Two cars collide in an intersection and both of them slam over the sidewalk and into the parking lot of a daycare -- but instead of tragedy as we saw at the KinderCare in Orlando, this daycare had a barrier in place that protected the babies and children just inside the building.  To see the video and hear the interview, please review the excellent coverage from KRQE news HERE.

This is a good example of why ASTM took steps to create a test standard for safety barriers and bollards.  This new ASTM standard - F3016 - will allow architects and engineers and city planners and daycare providers to understand that protection is necessary, that heavy vehicles moving at high speed can kill, and that with a small amount of planning and wise expenditure of funds, children can be safe in the very place parents drop them off every day.

So what could have been a tragedy turns out to be a wonderful lesson on planning ahead.  I hope that the city and county representatives in Florida take heed of the this lesson and listen to their task force -- because lives depend on people doing the right thing for the right reasons.
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ABC News Provides National Coverage of Storefront Crashes and the new ASTM F3016 Test Standard -- Our Statistics Cited

12/11/2014

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Last night, ABC World News Tonight broadcast a segment entitled  "Out of Control: Cars Crashing Into Homes and Buildings Happens More Often Than You Think"  See the 1:32 second video story
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The video shows many representative crashes, some well known, some very recent.  But the story captured the essence of the problem (out of control cars as a result of error-prone drivers) and it captured part of the solution:  the approval of the new ASTM International test standard F-3016, covering low-speed vehicle barriers such as those that would be used to protect storefronts and pedestrian areas from these kinds of vehicular incursions.

We were pleased and proud that the statistics used by ABC News were attributed to the Storefront Safety Council, which Mark Wright and I founded to identify and quantify this problem and to advocate for solutions.  The new ASTM standard represents years of work by dedicated volunteers and I was very pleased that Dean Alberson of Texas Traffic Institute was interviewed for the story.  Our work with Texas A&M and TTI is a high point of this effort, and we will continue to work closely with them.

60+ times per day, thousands injured, hundreds killed every year.  It doesn't have to be this way.

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