People in Ontario just can't stop crashing their cars into buildings
The news truck bursting through the exterior of 299 Queen Street West may not be enough of a landmark for Greater Toronto Area residents, who just can't seem to stop crashing their cars directly into buildings.
Two separate drivers slammed their cars into businesses over the weekend, the latest examples in a worrying trend of careless driving.
Multiple videos emerged on Saturday showing the aftermath of a black sedan crashing through the wall of a TD Canada Trust bank branch in a retail plaza at Bovaird Drive and Brisdale Drive in Brampton.
Vehicle Goes Through TD Bank On
— 401_da_sarpanch (@401_da_sarpanch) August 14, 2023
📍Bovaird/Brisdale In Brampton
.#Brampton #accident #RoadSafety #fail #bank #Peel #Toronto #driverslicense #dotd #weekend #trucking #TruckDriver #towing pic.twitter.com/lbIvjXtQaB
Clips of the post-crash scene circulating on X (formerly Twitter) show Peel Police securing the area around the new unplanned opening in the bank building.
A vehicle crashed into a TD bank in Brampton on Bovaird & Worthington pic.twitter.com/1xsYFvUILV
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) August 12, 2023
This was somehow not the only Greater Toronto Area instance of a driver crashing through a building over the weekend. Toronto Police reported a second incident on Sunday evening, where a driver plowed into a Tim Hortons location.
COLLISION:
— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) August 14, 2023
Donlands Ave & O'Conner Dr
7:45 pm
- reports of a vehicle driving into a coffee shop
- police o/s
- @TorontoMedics & @Toronto_Fire o/s no reported injuries
- use caution in the area
GO#1888731
^av
Both incidents come just a few weeks after another driver crashed their car through a Kitchener LCBO location.
Driver crashes car straight into an LCBO near Toronto https://t.co/YGqdQEWJBC #Ontario #LCBO
— blogTO (@blogTO) July 11, 2023
Further incidents from 2023 include one case from April, where a Mississauga driver didn't even wait for a building to complete construction before barreling their car into its construction site.
Mississauga driver somehow slammed their luxury car into a construction pit https://t.co/FBXHxPFXEL #Mississauga
— blogTO (@blogTO) April 19, 2023
Another incident this past March involved a Vaughan driver who crashed into a bakery and then visited a salon next door to get her nails done as if nothing had happened.
Driver smashes into Vaughan bakery and gets nails done next door after https://t.co/RcRCTZWB5Y #Vaughan #GTA
— blogTO (@blogTO) March 8, 2023
Sometimes the crashes are entirely intentional, like a theft case from February where a driver smashed into a closed mall using a stolen car in a daring heist.
Car drives directly through Toronto-area mall in daring smash-and-grab heist https://t.co/dUdYhjnMqT #Ontario #Mall
— blogTO (@blogTO) February 1, 2023
These represent just a handful of cases from the first eight months of the year. Perhaps the most metaphoric driver-versus-building crash in recent memory was a May 2022 incident where a driver smashed their car through a bike shop.
