A pickup truck jumped a Scituate curb on Saturday and crashed through the front of a MountainOne bank branch, the kind of incident that Rep. Carolyn Dykema believes requires intervention by the legislature.

Dykema is again pressing legislation (H.1779) that would require communities to install pylons or some other kind of barrier between parking spots and commercial buildings, hopeful that the change will prevent vehicles from striking buildings when drivers miss the brake pedal or experience medical emergencies.

“Whatever the cause, the result can be significant damage and, unfortunately, in some cases, loss of life,” Dykema told the Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government at a Tuesday hearing. “We have an opportunity here to start making a difference and laying out a legislative framework for how we address these tragedies.”

While data can be difficult to track, Dykema said the best available statistics indicate storefront crashes happen as often as 60 times per day across the entire country. In 2008, Massachusetts saw 106 recorded incidents, she said.

The Transportation Committee favorably reported a version of Dykema’s bill last session, but it never came up for a vote in either branch.

Rep. Michael Soter, one of the Municipalities Committee’s three Republicans, urged his colleagues to advance the bill quickly at Tuesday’s hearing, saying he “can’t see why this bill hasn’t been sent to the floor.”