You know how sometimes you’re driving on a city street during the daytime in a 30 mph zone and all of a sudden your car veers off the road, hits a fixed object, and then flips over?
Yeah, me neither. I guess Facebook must have been really interesting at the moment.
This happened for some reason on Ford Parkway in Saint Paul MN just a block from me.
State departments of transportation often refer to trees as "hazardous fixed objects" and argue for their removal so that speeding drivers won’t be as likely to die when they leave the road and hit them.
When a crazed driver killed pedestrians in Times Square on May 18, the rampage was only stopped because of steel bollards. When a 76 year old driver killed five people at an auto auction in Massachusetts on May 3, the SUV only stopped when it lodged into a wall.
I would much rather the driver deals with the consequences of their own behavior than to have a pedestrian die as the car coasts to safety. I would like to save the trees.
pseudoisaac 