What allows a car to drive into a building?

The lady running Rumors Salon may in the future have a problem with getting customers to sit quietly and not to keep a constant vigilant watch over their shoulders. On April 8, 2010 for the third time a car drove into her salon's front window. But as you know more facts the story just keeps getting better. The driver, Carol Jane Larpenter, 70-years of age, was driving a Toyota when instead of braking it accelerated while she was parking in the handicap parking space.  Follow the link for KCCI's video clip. The larger video clip doesn't show any tire stops. The landlord would be wise to install tire stops along the front of that strip mall.

What's that I hear about there being too many lawsuits?

Could patrons of Rumors been compensated by insurance had they been struck and injured or killed? Yes is the quick answer. From what insurance; I'd guess would be the elderly driver's insurance of even their own auto insurance. Although they are sitting in a building, probably insured, the injury come not from any defect with the building but from an errant car or vehicle. You might wonder if the driver can successfully blame it on Toyota. Perhaps, but not very likely her insurance company is willing to hire the experts needed to point out any defect with sudden acceleration in the cars engineering design. Let's face it with all the ink being laid to paper about Toyota's sudden acceleration issues I'd think by now we would have an answer if it were easily discovered.