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The Hidden Epidemic of Storefront Crashes
It's way more than just a crazy thing you sometimes see on the local news. And almost no one is doing anything about it.
Mark Wright was leaving a 7-Eleven store that he had visited "hundreds of times," by his own estimation. But this time was different. On this August day in 2008, when Wright stopped in to buy a Diet Coke and some Hostess Sno Balls, a driver parking her car in front of the store went over the curb and hit Wright, then plowed on through the doors of the store.
"The lady that hit me was a nice lady," he says, with remarkable equanimity. "She didn’t mean to do it." Somehow, he says, she just got confused and made a terrible mistake.