Every time I read this my heart breaks for the families. Of course the driver was in his seventies. Of course the police will never question if he took meds forbidding him to operate heavy machinery.
Edit: took it down. Did not see someone fast faster than I I
The building design ignored the danger of the cars because cars are holy.
Sidewalks are a very different thing, because cars drive parallel to them, not perpendicular. In T-intersections they do drive perpendicularly to the sidewalk, but not that close. Of course accidents happen in them as well, but this one was so clearly preventable by not having parking places at such a spot. Or at least putting a little bit of concrete in between to stop any rampant cars.