Two people involved in a car accident in Herriman, Utah, were rescued minutes before their SUV was engulfed in flames after it crashed into a Domino's Pizza.
Domino's restaurant in Utah explodes after SUV crashes into building
It means only higher floors (briefly) or a similarly armored car or a car moving away quickly is safe. This is freedom. And by freedom i mean eating out the the red queen (harder than it sounds!).
this could have easily been a public transit vehicle that crashed.
For sure, and that still happens, but there are considerably more "cars" crashing into buildings than commercial vehicles. And nearly anyone, qualified or not, can drive a car without many barriers to entry.