# Speed of car to go through brick wall?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 12, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-car-to-go-through-brick-wall/407695 "2007-06-12T12:43:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-car-to-go-through-brick-wall/407695/21 "2007-06-13T06:45:19Z")

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There was a story out of St. Louis a few months ago where an elderly woman drove her car through the wall of a school and killed a boy eating lunch inside. [here](http://www.kmov.com/topstories/stories/kmov_localnews_070404_ryanwesling.31942690.html)’s a link to the story, and if you click the “photos from the scene” link at the top, you can see how big and clean a hole the car punched through the wall. That wall’s not brick though, I don’t think.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-car-to-go-through-brick-wall/407695/22 "2007-06-13T13:26:28Z")

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[QUOTE=Rick]  
These defective pedal switching cars are only sold to the elderly.  
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Won’t _somebody_ think about the children!?!?

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