Failed Driving Test

Where I lived a couple of years ago, someone drove through the door of the post office. It wasn't an easy feat since there was a high curb, and it was slightly uphill. They cleaned up, replaced the door, and everything was fine for about three months when someone else did it. Several bollards were installed before the new door was put in. A few weeks later, someone hit one of the end bollards, nearly got to the building. The next day, a long row of bollards was going in. Forty years without an incident, and then wham, wham, wham.

I can't think of a single government building in this area that isn't protected by bollards, moat, or short walls. I wonder how much of that is due to the threat of terrorism and how much due to driver's getting worse.

Early 1960s, a state senator and his brother, the local chief of police, both bought new cars and went to the insurance agency to get them covered. A friend of my older sister was taking her driving test, swerved to miss a squirrel (accidentally accelerating as she did so), and took them both out, as well as the insurance agent's car. Her mom was one of the powers-that-be at the local paper, so it got swept under the rug, but there were still a few photos of it floating around when I was old enough to start driving.