Three-vehicle collision at intersection - GIF

[Altair]

Three-vehicle collision at intersection.




Previously:

Intersection near disaster - GIF
Motorcycle zips through crash - GIF
Man walks away unscathed in three-car crash - GIF
Lucky pedestrian unscathed in two-car crash - GIF

[hemmjo]

They could not have done that any better if they had planned it.

[mansworld]

Speed bumps/ speed breakers are cheap practical solutions.

[mklotz]

Speed bumps/ speed breakers are cheap practical solutions.

Typical snowflake solution. Make life miserable for the safe drivers rather than apprehending the idiots.

Recently, the old farts who live on a neighboring suburban street had speed bumps installed. Both the local ambulance groups and the firefighters have notified the residents that they can no longer guarantee prompt response to emergencies because of the bumps.

The city has now made it illegal to install bumps on public thoroughfares. The local mall saw a jump in shoppers when they removed the parking lot bumps during a renovation.

[mansworld]

Typical snowflake solution. Make life miserable for the safe drivers rather than apprehending the idiots.

Recently, the old farts who live on a neighboring suburban street had speed bumps installed. Both the local ambulance groups and the firefighters have notified the residents that they can no longer guarantee prompt response to emergencies because of the bumps.

The city has now made it illegal to install bumps on public thoroughfares. The local mall saw a jump in shoppers when they removed the parking lot bumps during a renovation.

Had that intersection had speed bumps, the collision of the three cars would never have happened. There are people in this world who have no regards for laws, regulations, traffic lights, road signs, pedestrians crossing, etc. Such people must be contained by adopting measures like "speed bumps". The safety of road users is paramount to the annoyance of speed bumps felt by some people. The traffic green light is not a guarantee to cross an intersection, the safety wise driver slows down and looks both ways (quick glance) to make sure no one is going to violate the red light.

[hemmjo]

Had that intersection had speed bumps, the collision of the three cars would never have happened. There are people in this world who have no regards for laws, regulations, traffic lights, road signs, pedestrians crossing, etc. Such people must be contained by adopting measures like "speed bumps". The safety of road users is paramount to the annoyance of speed bumps felt by some people. The traffic green light is not a guarantee to cross an intersection, the safety wise driver slows down and looks both ways (quick glance) to make sure no one is going to violate the red light.

OR, we could actually ENFORCE the laws we have rather than punish those who do not break the laws.

In regard to "The traffic green light is not a guarantee to cross an intersection", in life waking up in the morning is NOT a guarantee you will get to go to sleep again that night. Anyone of us can end our journey in this world on any day at anytime from a multitude of causes. Some from our own foolishness, some from the carelessness of others, some from forces way beyond anyone's control or comprehension.

[Frank S]

I've said it many times, driver education and attention to their driving is the only real solution to preventing most accidents.
when speed bumps are encountered by speeding vehicles can and have caused total loss of control, rumble strips can serve to slow most drivers but often times since many are not paying attention to their driving in the first place, they can cause them to panic and hit their brakes hard enough to overpower the antilock braking systems if their vehicles ae so equipped. I'm not a purveyor of high tech electronics in vehicles but many newer vehicles already have the tech built in them for colision avoidance braking adding transmitters before the intersections which could trigger automatic braking might actually be a worthy investment to the infrastructure the same thing could be applied as speed controlling technology even GPS could be used to control speed, however distasteful that is to me.
But nothing in the world will ever replace driver education in my opinion