AchingBack
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It looks like those wooden poles are saving your art deco lamp post.
YES, new cars are safer.
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tallyho8 said:
This is absolutly unbelievable. Are you sure you are not joshing us? Are you not motivated to get some redesign of the road done or something? That ditch seems to be the problem. if it were not for the ditch they might just hit a shoulder and be able to steer back onto the road again. Or speed bumps or something. It is like the old saying, "An accident waiting to happen" This thread is on my My Home Page so I always see your reports. I hope you keepthis thread up becasue in a maudulan way it is facinating.
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I don't believe that the ditch is the problem. I believe that the ditch is the cure to the problem. The problem is drunk drivers on the road. The ditch helps eliminate them before they hit someone head-on and kill them. The ditch protects my home and front yard so I don't want to see it get closed in. I am making up a sign now to hang on the pole in front of my home. It will say "The drunk stops here".
Tuesday, my neighbor slowed to turn into his driveway and the car behind him wasn't paying attention and had to slam on his brakes. Luckily, he missed my neighbor but he started a 3 car chain collision as the 2 cars behind him failed to stop.
Ever since Katrina, it seems like people in this area are drinking more and speeding much more since we have fewer traffic police now. Hopefully, this problem will be relieved some as the sheriff's department recruits more deputies in the next couple of years.
If I was younger I would buy a tow-truck and start up a new business. I would surely have a steady income.
I have no reason to "josh" anyone about all these accidents and my imagination is not good enough to make up these incidents. And there are many more that I don't see when I am not at home or that occur a couple of blocks down the road. About 7 years ago they used creosote telephone poles and then they switched to treated poles which are easily recognizable. There is about one pole every 200 feet on the River Road and within a mile of my home there is only 1 creosote pole left. All the rest have been knocked down and replaced.
Tuesday, my neighbor slowed to turn into his driveway and the car behind him wasn't paying attention and had to slam on his brakes. Luckily, he missed my neighbor but he started a 3 car chain collision as the 2 cars behind him failed to stop.
Ever since Katrina, it seems like people in this area are drinking more and speeding much more since we have fewer traffic police now. Hopefully, this problem will be relieved some as the sheriff's department recruits more deputies in the next couple of years.
If I was younger I would buy a tow-truck and start up a new business. I would surely have a steady income.
I have no reason to "josh" anyone about all these accidents and my imagination is not good enough to make up these incidents. And there are many more that I don't see when I am not at home or that occur a couple of blocks down the road. About 7 years ago they used creosote telephone poles and then they switched to treated poles which are easily recognizable. There is about one pole every 200 feet on the River Road and within a mile of my home there is only 1 creosote pole left. All the rest have been knocked down and replaced.
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That is priceless. The biggest laugh I've had all day.tallyho8 said:
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wow. just wow.
I wouldn't leave my tractor parked in the front yard if I were you.
And I think the guy who suggested tank traps had the right way of thinking!
I wouldn't leave my tractor parked in the front yard if I were you.
And I think the guy who suggested tank traps had the right way of thinking!
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It has now been 7 months with no cars running into poles in front of my home so maybe the era of pole destruction has ended for now. Yesterday there was a head-on collision in front. Yes, new cars are safer because the drivers only had minor injuries despite both vehicles being totaled.
It would have been better if the 19 year old driver of the pickup had hit a pole instead of crossing into the other lane and hitting an innocent driver head-on.
It would have been better if the 19 year old driver of the pickup had hit a pole instead of crossing into the other lane and hitting an innocent driver head-on.
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Blagadan
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Heres something I saw a guy do in spain to curb his speeding and accident problem outside his home..... and IT WORKED....
He got a sheet of plywood and painted a very detailed and accurate painting of a cop car, complete with cop standing behind the car. Once the painting was done, he got his jig saw and cut the outline of the car out. He placed this cut out on the side of the road just up a ways from his house just under a lamp post. For the blue lights on the top ot the car, he used blue reflective tape to catch the headlights of the oncoming cars. He put more reflective tape along the side of the painting to replicate the real deal.
I saw this with my own eyes last year and trust me it was THE most effective tool I have ever seen to get people to slow down (apart from actually having a real cop there).
I read somewhere later that the local police force has adopted his idea and now randomly move these cutouts around the accident black spots in the locality.. neat eh?
In France, where people have died in road traffic accidents, the roads authority permanently place black life size cutouts of "people" at the accident site. Every so often you come across a cluster of these at accident black spots. Once or twice we spotted a cutout of a man, woman and one or two children... That makes you take your foot off the gas when you see that.
EDIT, I just googled "police car cutout" and this came up!! yours for for $700 WTH ????
Heres one they have in ireland
He got a sheet of plywood and painted a very detailed and accurate painting of a cop car, complete with cop standing behind the car. Once the painting was done, he got his jig saw and cut the outline of the car out. He placed this cut out on the side of the road just up a ways from his house just under a lamp post. For the blue lights on the top ot the car, he used blue reflective tape to catch the headlights of the oncoming cars. He put more reflective tape along the side of the painting to replicate the real deal.
I saw this with my own eyes last year and trust me it was THE most effective tool I have ever seen to get people to slow down (apart from actually having a real cop there).
I read somewhere later that the local police force has adopted his idea and now randomly move these cutouts around the accident black spots in the locality.. neat eh?
In France, where people have died in road traffic accidents, the roads authority permanently place black life size cutouts of "people" at the accident site. Every so often you come across a cluster of these at accident black spots. Once or twice we spotted a cutout of a man, woman and one or two children... That makes you take your foot off the gas when you see that.
EDIT, I just googled "police car cutout" and this came up!! yours for for $700 WTH ????
Heres one they have in ireland
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Blagadan
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Or, get your county roads authority to put one of these reflective signs up the road from you a ways... Seems like that corner IS a blind corner..
jimmer2880
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Heres something I saw a guy do in spain to curb his speeding and accident problem outside his home..... and IT WORKED....
He got a sheet of plywood and painted a very detailed and accurate painting of a cop car, complete with cop standing behind the car. Once the painting was done, he got his jig saw and cut the outline of the car out. He placed this cut out on the side of the road just up a ways from his house just under a lamp post. For the blue lights on the top ot the car, he used blue reflective tape to catch the headlights of the oncoming cars. He put more reflective tape along the side of the painting to replicate the real deal.
I saw this with my own eyes last year and trust me it was THE most effective tool I have ever seen to get people to slow down (apart from actually having a real cop there).
I read somewhere later that the local police force has adopted his idea and now randomly move these cutouts around the accident black spots in the locality.. neat eh?
In France, where people have died in road traffic accidents, the roads authority permanently place black life size cutouts of "people" at the accident site. Every so often you come across a cluster of these at accident black spots. Once or twice we spotted a cutout of a man, woman and one or two children... That makes you take your foot off the gas when you see that.
EDIT, I just googled "police car cutout" and this came up!! yours for for $700 WTH ????
Heres one they have in ireland
My local state police has a couple of these, except made in fiberglass with working lights. Worked pretty good for me the other night
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I have to revive this old thread because it happened again. After a year and 5 days with no one hitting the pole in front of my house, they got it again early this morning. This time they did not break the pole but they sure widened my ditch and stopped up my culvert.
Five years ago, this was a little narrow 2' wide ditch and now it is over 4' wide from all the cars going in it and scraping the dirt from the sides. I wonder if there is any practical way that the highway department could fill the side of the ditch to make it narrow again. I don't want them to put a culvert in the ditch because the ditch stops the cars from coming in my yard.
Five years ago, this was a little narrow 2' wide ditch and now it is over 4' wide from all the cars going in it and scraping the dirt from the sides. I wonder if there is any practical way that the highway department could fill the side of the ditch to make it narrow again. I don't want them to put a culvert in the ditch because the ditch stops the cars from coming in my yard.
