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WITH A CLEAR PATTERN OF INCIDENTS, HERE’S WHY CITIES MUST PAY ATTENTION – AND WHAT SIA IS DOING TO DRIVE AWARENESS. Why Hostile Vehicle Incidents Like Waukesha Can’t Be Ignored, by Rob Reiter for the Security Industry Association
REDUCING PARKING LOT INJURIES, STOREFRONT CRASHES, AND TORT CLAIMS: SAFETY BOLLARDS, ADA PARKING SIGNPOSTS, AND “WHEEL STOPS” (A Joint Position Paper of the Storefront Safety Council and Richard Avelar & Associates)
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A VEHICLE CRASHES INTO YOUR SMALL BUSINESS (AND WHY YOU NEED BUSINESS INSURANCE) by Kathy Simpson, The Hartford.
PREVENTING VEHICLE ATTACKS. Security Industry Association (SIA) Policy Briefing, May 10, 2018. Washington D.C.
HOW CAN YOU STOP CARS FROM PLOWING INTO CROWDS. Slate Magazine, by Henry Grabar. "Bollards" are our best defense against the use of vehicles as weapons. They’re also the rare anti-terrorism policy that makes cities more pleasant. Storefront Safety Council Statistics quoted.
PROTECTING STUDENTS FROM DANGEROUS THREATS. Private University Products and News, by Rob Reiter, Co-founder, Storefront Safety Council. Neither rare nor unusual. Colleges and Universities push towards greater security measures on campus.
"STOPPING VEHICULAR ATTACKS" . CLAIMS Magazine, by Rob Reiter, Co-founder, Storefront Safety Council.
HIT BY A CAR: SURVIVING A STOREFRONT CRASH. Reliance Foundry Co. Ltd.
SAFETY BOLLARDS PROTECT STOREFRONTS. Reliance Foundry Co. Ltd.
EASY LESSONS. A blog post by Mark Wright, Co-founder, Storefront Safety Council
IS GRANDPA MORE DANGEROUS THAN A TERRORIST? A statistical look at vehicles into buildings. By Sherman Smith, Topeka/Capital Journal
STOREFRONT CRASHES: WHY THEY OCCUR AND HOW TO PREVENT THEM. Interview with Rob Reiter by David Hochman,founder of DJH Marketing Communications Inc., for Convenience Store Decisions.
KEEPING CARS AND STOREFRONTS APART in ASTM STANDARDIZATION NEWS, an UPDATE on prior release of new standard. Protective barriers are becoming an increasingly important component of preventing or minimizing the damage from such accidents. Now, a new ASTM standard quantifies the dynamic performance of vehicle protective devices at speeds of 50 km/h (30 mph) and lower.
PRESS RELEASE - NEW ASTM LOW SPEED IMPACT TESTING STANDARD TO AID IN LOWERING RISK OF STOREFRONT CAR ACCIDENTS. Protective barriers are becoming an increasingly important component of preventing or minimizing the damage from such accidents. Now, a new ASTM standard quantifies the dynamic performance of vehicle protective devices at speeds of 50 km/h (30 mph) and lower.The procedure described in ASTM F3016 will establish a penetration rating for vehicle protective devices subjected to low-speed vehicle impact. The determined penetration rating will provide end users with the ability to select an appropriate barrier for site-specific conditions.
KEVIN MOORE ON INSURANCE: WITH STOREFRONT CRASHES, AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION GOES A LONG WAY. Keven Moore is director of Risk Management Services for Roeding Insurance (www.roedinginsurance.com).
ABC NEWS, WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (video). Watch: Out of Control: Cars Crashing Into Homes and Buildings Happens More Often Than You Think! Vehicle-Into-Building crashes; statistics provided by Storefront Safety Council.
STANDARD APPROVED! Read: Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) Plays Key Role in Creating New Safety Standard to Prevent Storefront Crashes. Storefront Safety Council co-founder Rob Reiter named driving force behind ASTMF-3016 test standard.
"IS RISK COMING AT YOU HEAD ON?" by Rob Reiter, published in Claims Journal.
"Bread, Milk and Mayhem: Storefront Crashes More Common Than You Think, and Often Preventable" (Rob Reiter quoted), Fair Warning.
"THE OVERLOOKED THREAT OF VEHICLE-INTO-BUILDING ACCIDENTS" by Rob Reiter, published in Risk Management Magazine. Reprinted in OCRIMS Sept 2014.
"GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS - CRASH AND GRAB CRIME ON THE RISE" by Rob Reiter, published in ATM Marketplace
"HOW SAFE IS YOUR PARKING LOT?" by Robert Reiter and Mark Wright, Storefront Safety Council, published in Development Magazine.
"SXSW CRASH RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT BARRICADE SAFETY" Radio and Print Interview by Kate McGee, NPR Station KUT in Austin Texas
"WE'RE SHAMEFULLY BAD AT PROTECTING PEDESTRIANS AT EVENTS", article by Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic Cities
"SAVING LIVES AT STOREFRONT PARKING" by Robert Reiter, Parking Magazine
"IS YOUR STORE READY FOR PEDAL ERROR?" by Robert Reiter & Mark Wright, Storefront Safety Council, published in Convenience Store News.
"THE HIDDEN EPIDEMIC OF STOREFRONT CRASHES", article by Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic Cities
"STOREFRONT CRASHES: A BIGGER URBAN DESIGN ISSUE THAN WE THINK", by Marlis Harris, MINNPOST
"PARKING IS A FULL-TIME JOB" - Co-authored by Rob Reiter, Texas Traffic Institute at Texas A&M University publishes definitive article on how the convenience store industry suffers from as many as 20 storefront crashes per day. Their findings? Testing standards can help prevent low-speed crashes into buildings!
RETAIL STORE SAFETY CRASH PREVENTION CASE STUDY ON STARBUCKS
Mark Wright interviews Rob Reiter on the impact of storefront crashes on Starbucks.
CRASH VICTIMS' LAWSUITS TAKE AIM AT STOREFRONT SAFETY, BY MARK WRIGHT AND ROB REITER,
Fifty to sixty times per day in the U.S., a vehicle crashes into a commercial building, retail store, or restaurant. The result is millions of dollars in damage and lost business, injured employees and patrons, and tragically, dozens of fatalities. Predictably, these crashes also tend to generate lawsuits. This article reviews recent and pending court cases in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas. -
INNOVATIVE PARKING GARAGE SAFETY- BY MARK WRIGHT
Thanks to some smart choices by Brookfield Properties, plus innovative design work and fabrication by their solutions providers, patrons at the recently revitalized FIGat7th parking garage in downtown Los Angeles are better protected from wayward vehicles.
"LOW SPEED VEHICLE BARRIERS" from Standardization News, ASTM International
PARKING LOTS: WHEN MOTORISTS BECOME PEDESTRIANS - BY JOHN A. STARK
When thinking about the interactions between automobiles an pedestrians, most discussions revolve around how to separate the two modes of traffic or how to make street interactions between the two safer. What is often overlooked, however, is the subtle yet obvious fact that every motorist must be a pedestrian before and after every motorized trio. It is here, in parking lots, that safety and integration are often overlooked.
CURBING THE MALL DRIVE-THRU - BY RICCARDO A. DAVIS
In the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers, one of the most famous scenes is an over-the-top car chase in which Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi, on the race through the streets of Chicago and ran smack dab into the middle of a bustling mall, plowed into the entrance — shattering the glass doors — and then fueled pandemonium among shoppers and retailers as it careened through the mall's concourse. More than 25 years later, that image has now been replayed — possibly in a mall near you.
REDUCING PARKING LOT INJURIES, STOREFRONT CRASHES, AND TORT CLAIMS: SAFETY BOLLARDS, ADA PARKING SIGNPOSTS, AND “WHEEL STOPS” (A Joint Position Paper of the Storefront Safety Council and Richard Avelar & Associates)
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A VEHICLE CRASHES INTO YOUR SMALL BUSINESS (AND WHY YOU NEED BUSINESS INSURANCE) by Kathy Simpson, The Hartford.
PREVENTING VEHICLE ATTACKS. Security Industry Association (SIA) Policy Briefing, May 10, 2018. Washington D.C.
HOW CAN YOU STOP CARS FROM PLOWING INTO CROWDS. Slate Magazine, by Henry Grabar. "Bollards" are our best defense against the use of vehicles as weapons. They’re also the rare anti-terrorism policy that makes cities more pleasant. Storefront Safety Council Statistics quoted.
PROTECTING STUDENTS FROM DANGEROUS THREATS. Private University Products and News, by Rob Reiter, Co-founder, Storefront Safety Council. Neither rare nor unusual. Colleges and Universities push towards greater security measures on campus.
"STOPPING VEHICULAR ATTACKS" . CLAIMS Magazine, by Rob Reiter, Co-founder, Storefront Safety Council.
HIT BY A CAR: SURVIVING A STOREFRONT CRASH. Reliance Foundry Co. Ltd.
SAFETY BOLLARDS PROTECT STOREFRONTS. Reliance Foundry Co. Ltd.
EASY LESSONS. A blog post by Mark Wright, Co-founder, Storefront Safety Council
IS GRANDPA MORE DANGEROUS THAN A TERRORIST? A statistical look at vehicles into buildings. By Sherman Smith, Topeka/Capital Journal
STOREFRONT CRASHES: WHY THEY OCCUR AND HOW TO PREVENT THEM. Interview with Rob Reiter by David Hochman,founder of DJH Marketing Communications Inc., for Convenience Store Decisions.
KEEPING CARS AND STOREFRONTS APART in ASTM STANDARDIZATION NEWS, an UPDATE on prior release of new standard. Protective barriers are becoming an increasingly important component of preventing or minimizing the damage from such accidents. Now, a new ASTM standard quantifies the dynamic performance of vehicle protective devices at speeds of 50 km/h (30 mph) and lower.
PRESS RELEASE - NEW ASTM LOW SPEED IMPACT TESTING STANDARD TO AID IN LOWERING RISK OF STOREFRONT CAR ACCIDENTS. Protective barriers are becoming an increasingly important component of preventing or minimizing the damage from such accidents. Now, a new ASTM standard quantifies the dynamic performance of vehicle protective devices at speeds of 50 km/h (30 mph) and lower.The procedure described in ASTM F3016 will establish a penetration rating for vehicle protective devices subjected to low-speed vehicle impact. The determined penetration rating will provide end users with the ability to select an appropriate barrier for site-specific conditions.
KEVIN MOORE ON INSURANCE: WITH STOREFRONT CRASHES, AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION GOES A LONG WAY. Keven Moore is director of Risk Management Services for Roeding Insurance (www.roedinginsurance.com).
ABC NEWS, WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (video). Watch: Out of Control: Cars Crashing Into Homes and Buildings Happens More Often Than You Think! Vehicle-Into-Building crashes; statistics provided by Storefront Safety Council.
STANDARD APPROVED! Read: Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) Plays Key Role in Creating New Safety Standard to Prevent Storefront Crashes. Storefront Safety Council co-founder Rob Reiter named driving force behind ASTMF-3016 test standard.
"IS RISK COMING AT YOU HEAD ON?" by Rob Reiter, published in Claims Journal.
"Bread, Milk and Mayhem: Storefront Crashes More Common Than You Think, and Often Preventable" (Rob Reiter quoted), Fair Warning.
"THE OVERLOOKED THREAT OF VEHICLE-INTO-BUILDING ACCIDENTS" by Rob Reiter, published in Risk Management Magazine. Reprinted in OCRIMS Sept 2014.
"GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS - CRASH AND GRAB CRIME ON THE RISE" by Rob Reiter, published in ATM Marketplace
"HOW SAFE IS YOUR PARKING LOT?" by Robert Reiter and Mark Wright, Storefront Safety Council, published in Development Magazine.
"SXSW CRASH RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT BARRICADE SAFETY" Radio and Print Interview by Kate McGee, NPR Station KUT in Austin Texas
"WE'RE SHAMEFULLY BAD AT PROTECTING PEDESTRIANS AT EVENTS", article by Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic Cities
"SAVING LIVES AT STOREFRONT PARKING" by Robert Reiter, Parking Magazine
"IS YOUR STORE READY FOR PEDAL ERROR?" by Robert Reiter & Mark Wright, Storefront Safety Council, published in Convenience Store News.
"THE HIDDEN EPIDEMIC OF STOREFRONT CRASHES", article by Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic Cities
"STOREFRONT CRASHES: A BIGGER URBAN DESIGN ISSUE THAN WE THINK", by Marlis Harris, MINNPOST
"PARKING IS A FULL-TIME JOB" - Co-authored by Rob Reiter, Texas Traffic Institute at Texas A&M University publishes definitive article on how the convenience store industry suffers from as many as 20 storefront crashes per day. Their findings? Testing standards can help prevent low-speed crashes into buildings!
RETAIL STORE SAFETY CRASH PREVENTION CASE STUDY ON STARBUCKS
Mark Wright interviews Rob Reiter on the impact of storefront crashes on Starbucks.
CRASH VICTIMS' LAWSUITS TAKE AIM AT STOREFRONT SAFETY, BY MARK WRIGHT AND ROB REITER,
Fifty to sixty times per day in the U.S., a vehicle crashes into a commercial building, retail store, or restaurant. The result is millions of dollars in damage and lost business, injured employees and patrons, and tragically, dozens of fatalities. Predictably, these crashes also tend to generate lawsuits. This article reviews recent and pending court cases in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas. -
INNOVATIVE PARKING GARAGE SAFETY- BY MARK WRIGHT
Thanks to some smart choices by Brookfield Properties, plus innovative design work and fabrication by their solutions providers, patrons at the recently revitalized FIGat7th parking garage in downtown Los Angeles are better protected from wayward vehicles.
"LOW SPEED VEHICLE BARRIERS" from Standardization News, ASTM International
PARKING LOTS: WHEN MOTORISTS BECOME PEDESTRIANS - BY JOHN A. STARK
When thinking about the interactions between automobiles an pedestrians, most discussions revolve around how to separate the two modes of traffic or how to make street interactions between the two safer. What is often overlooked, however, is the subtle yet obvious fact that every motorist must be a pedestrian before and after every motorized trio. It is here, in parking lots, that safety and integration are often overlooked.
CURBING THE MALL DRIVE-THRU - BY RICCARDO A. DAVIS
In the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers, one of the most famous scenes is an over-the-top car chase in which Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi, on the race through the streets of Chicago and ran smack dab into the middle of a bustling mall, plowed into the entrance — shattering the glass doors — and then fueled pandemonium among shoppers and retailers as it careened through the mall's concourse. More than 25 years later, that image has now been replayed — possibly in a mall near you.
