People driving cars into stuff

We were so busy dealing with the flooding catastrophes that we forgot another scourge to fear: people driving into your building.

This morning an elderly couple was woken up by a dude driving into their house:


"Harold Patterson and his wife were sound asleep when a car on Ness Avenue ran over their neighbour's lawn, through their back fence and rammed into their home, coming within half a metre of their bed." Cont here.


Yesterday a lady drove into some guy's new meat shop. (Picture from WFP website).


"Marcello Castellano surveys the damage after a car crashed through the windows into his soon-to-be Marcello's Meats store in a strip mall at 200 Meadowood Drive Thursday. He was the only person in the store when an elderly female driver drove into the building. The woman was taken to hospital for observation. "

And I remembered seeing one from not long ago where an out-of-control car drove into a closed garage. One of the women in the car later passed away: read about it here. (Pic WFP website).

Were these accidents always so frequent, and I'm just suddenly noticing them more?

Or are people just spring feverish and testing their luck on the newly ice free roads?