Unsafe Parking Lot Design Leads to Life-Changing Accident

There are various means of controlling speed of vehicles within parking lots. These include posting speed limits, installing speed bumps or speed humps (two different varieties of speed-control systems), or placing stop and yield signs at critical locations. Whether the driver in this case violated any governing laws varies with the jurisdiction or state, which may or may not consider a parking lot private property and, therefore, not subject to governing regulations. This is generally not the case for purposes of speeding, reckless driving, or other risky behaviors. There are certainly a few features of this parking lot that seem to have allowed this accident to occur. Were there any controls, as described above, present? Was the driver in a lane with parked cars or in an “access route” along stores or street, or entering or exiting the lot? Obviously if no controls (signage, speed bumps, posted speed limits, etc.) were present, then one or all could have mitigated or prevented the accident.