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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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Farrell's Ice Cream Crash -- Out of a Tragedy Comes an Effort to Pass a Local Ordinance to Prevent Storefront Crashes

11/15/2014

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Back in April we recounted the story of a tragic case of a senior driver parked in an ADA space who made a simple error and caused his SUV to lurch forward and smash into people sitting on a bench waiting to go into the restaurant.  The 81 year-old driver killed 73 year-old Marisa Malin and critically injured Marisa's granddaughter, Isabel Manalo.

This accident was foreseeable.  It was predictable that a driver in the act of parking or unparking in that ADA space might lurch forward and strike the bench and whoever was sitting on it or standing near it.  IN addition, this accident was preventable.  A very simple barrier, in this case a row of bollards that have since been installed subsequent to the tragedy, would have prevented the surging SUV from striking anyone waiting at the bench.

Fast forward 7 months later:  Isabel is making a great recovery.  The restaurant is now protected so this will not happen again.  The family is healing with the passage of time.  But there is more to the story.

Mike Fleming is the owner of Farrell's and he has vowed that these kinds of preventable accident need to be eliminated.  Victor Manalo, Isabel's father and Marisa's son-in-law, is a city councilman in Artesia California and he has taken it on himself to require some sort of safety barrier between vehicles and patrons and pedestrians at storefront locations such as this one.  These two men are working hard to make sure that this type of storefront crash never happens again in their town.

Please see the coverage from Los Angeles CBS2 on this story -- both the written article and the video.  Thanks to CBS for their story, and thanks to Victor and Mike for working so hard for this cause.  Stay tuned for more information on the Artesia City Ordinance requiring safety barriers and bollards in certain areas of parking lots .


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