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What if the drunk driver smashes through those expensive glass doors that are in front of the gym and they shatter into an infinite number of needle like shards. Imagine it in slow motion - suppose the driver is in a burgundy Toyota tundra that has a sun roof, and the rear window slides down. Suppose he had the sun roof open, and the rear window all the way down. The interior of his car is a tan cloth, and he purchased the chrome package instead of getting the color coded option. You can see the reflection of the infinite shards of glass in the chrome, and the bright reflection in the glass as it slowly shatters everywhere from the sunlight of a summer mid-afternoon. The driver is wearing a bright yellow polo shirt, tan shorts, a pair of ray-ban sunglasses and has short cropped sandy blonde hair. Now, imagine if you will, he let his insurance lapse on the Toyota tundra after learning his wife was planning on divorcing him. That is why he went out on a drinking binge after deciding he would quit paying his bills and put the house up for sale so his wife couldn't get it in any settlement agreement.
So, as the glass ((in slow motion)) is flying in a gazillion different angles through the air, one long, and very sharp shard falls through the open sunroof and slices this man's jugular vein before the airbag deploys, driving the shard deep into his neck, cutting his esophagus completely open. He dies in a matter of minutes. The girl at the front receptionist desk narrowly escaped the path of the oncoming front bumper of the Tundra, but is sprayed with shards of glass and sustains minor injuries. She sues this gym at a much later date, claiming she was so traumatized by this incident, she cannot sleep at night, or eat regularly and that the front doors should have been reinforced with solid steel instead of cheap aluminum, and instead of glass, should have had plexiglass (which doesn't shatter into sharp shards).
The fact the driver did not have any insurance, was drunk, and violated obvious traffic laws, and was dead - did not leave the gym with many options to get any sizable reimbursement from him. Also, the lawsuit filed by the girl at the front desk bankrupts the gym entirely, forcing them to shut its doors.
Will this solve your problem of too much traffic if the gym is shut down?
Apart from the throat cutting and the Fire and Police Departments flooding the area, and causing a massive headache of a traffic jam, that wouldn't be a big help.
Now if they got sued, and were forced to shut down, it might help somewhat, but if they decided to tear down a brand-new building, then they'd have to pay for all of that, and that itself is another headache I can live without. However, if they had moved the gym further back, and made another road not connected to the busy road, I wouldn't be objecting.