Questions about child safety barriers after daycare crash

Just inches away from tragedy. Three children, two adults still recovering tonight after an SUV barreled into a daycare in Pine Hills yesterday. Unthinkable. The crash happened despite a law requiring daycares in Orange County to have barricades outside of the building. Fox 35 investigative reporter Marie Edinger is looking into why the daycare didn't need those ballards. She joins us live now. So Marie, what's going on? Right now we know that the daycare is going to stay closed for quite a while. A building inspector came out and said there was major damage to the exterior of the building and to the electrical work. So that is one issue to deal with. Whether they reopen with more bollards put in place in the future is something we'll have to find out moving forward. 14 children were inside Tattletail's Learning Center when a 79-year-old man crashed his SUV into the side of the building. He wound up in the hospital along with a daycare worker and three children, each of them four years old. This is not the first time something like this has happened. Orange County passed the Lily Quintus ordinance in 2016 after the four-year-old girl was killed when a car plowed into a daycare in Winter Park. 14 others were hurt in that incident too. The new ordinance mandated that any new daycare would have to install bollards to protect the building on any exposed side parallel to the edge of the roadway. Those had to be at least 36 inches tall and able to withstand an impact of 5,000 pounds moving at 30 miles an hour. Apex Metal Fabricators right down the road from Tattletails sells and installs bollards. They're usually filled with concrete to help actually even more with the resistance of it. So, I mean, so you're getting steel and concrete and actually stopping both of them. So why wasn't there anything to stop this car? Tattletails was built in 2009, well before the 2016 law kicked into effect. They got grandfathered in. And although there are certain triggers that require barriers, even for older daycares, none applied to Tattletails. I think that should be a norm for all daycares. Jennifer Velasquez works with a STEM facility next door to Tattletails, which isn't required to have bollards either, but still installed small safety posts. She supports the grant program the county offers for daycares road safety improvements. If it's going to be that important, which our children are, And yes, for sure, they should be installing those precautions for all the heavy traffic areas, especially like Pine Hill Road. I did reach out to several county commissioners to see whether they would support eliminating that grandfather clause and putting in bollards in older daycares. I'm still waiting to hear back about that. We do know from the hospital, at least, that the people injured in this crash are going to be okay, including those children. Live in Orlando, Marie Edinger, Fox 35 News.