Poll of the Day > Lotta accidents on the road tonight

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Just drove by a fatal accident scene. Sad. Even leading up to the accident scene there was car who got rear ended cos the idiots behind him didnt slow the **** down.

Lotta accidents every night.

I hate cars personally. They're death traps. Don't care what anyone else thinks about them, they're terrible by design.

Every civilian and their 80/mph 8-ton projectiles all trying to coordinate precise movement, guess we need some kind of natural selection going on?

Yellow posted...

I hate cars personally. They're death traps. Don't care what anyone else thinks about them, they're terrible by design.

Every civilian and their 80/mph 8-ton projectiles all trying to coordinate precise movement, guess we need some kind of natural selection going on?

this

also
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/cars-banned-halloween-deadliest-day-kids/

hypnox posted...

Lotta accidents every night.

something I always find depressing is that if you try to look up a recent accident it's usually pretty difficult (I've never succeeded) to find because there are so many accidents, all you can find are articles of past accidents in the same place

it's shocking how many car accidents happen on roads

Sahuagin posted...

something I always find depressing is that if you try to look up a recent accident it's usually pretty difficult (I've never succeeded) to find because there are so many accidents, all you can find are articles of past accidents in the same place

There's an intersection here that used to see significant accidents pretty much every week because it's got a fairly busy cross street with only a stop sign controlling it, pretty poor visibility from the cross street, and people tend to speed quite heavily on the main street. There was a guy who lives on one of the corners who pretty much dedicated his Twitter account to chronicling the accidents and tagging various city councillors every time (usually in the form of "oh look there's a car in my yard again"). One week, it was so bad that residents came together and just piled their municipal garbage bins in the middle of the intersection to act as a makeshift traffic-calming measure, coming shortly after the city stated that they couldn't put any traffic-calming measures in because it's a bus route (which, as somebody who spent most of a decade taking that bus almost every day, is nonsense because there's absolutely no reason the bus can't be slowed down at that point).

A few months back, they finally added some 4-way stops, though they did it to the intersections on either side of the offending one instead of the problem one. I do think that makes sense, though, since it slows people down through the problem area instead of trying to stop them right at it, and it means that anyone that accidentally blows one of the stop signs will realize their mistake and be more cautious as they approach the intersection instead of having their mistake result in them going through the intersection wildly. And, surprise surprise, the bus hasn't exploded. Who knew?