On March 9, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) made an alert about how heavy battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were getting and how that affected safety. On April 8, the British Parking Association said it feared old parking buildings would not stand BEVs when they were a majority. These precedents make a parking garage collapse in New York even more tragic than it already was.
On April 18, the Little Man Parking building collapsed at 57 Ann Street, New York. It was around 4:10 PM (local time) when the four-story structure "pancaked all the way to the cellar floor," as the Department of Buildings acting Commissioner Kazimir Vilenchik described what happened. Five people got hurt, and the location manager of the parking garage, Willis Moore, 59, died. He was about to leave his shift when the building collapsed.
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