SEOUL: At least nine people were killed and four others were injured when a car struck pedestrians near Seoul city hall on Monday (Jul 1), police said. There were six fatalities at the scene, while three others were pronounced dead after being rushed to hospital, firefighter Kim Chun-soo said.
9 dead people don’t speak for themselves in your mind, I guess. Why are you on this community?
I’d love to go through it with you, step by step, using crayons and simple wording if I must, but alas! Not one of the 19 articles I looked at provided an exact location or pictures clear enough to figure that out.
My logic here is very simple: If a car can hit pedestrians, then the infrastructure is bad. 9 people died to prove this point and you’re acting as if this is a freak accident that happens once in a decade. It doesn’t, people die all the time because of inattentive drivers or faulty vehicles. Bollards save lives.
9 dead people don’t speak for themselves in your mind, I guess. Why are you on this community?
I’d love to go through it with you, step by step, using crayons and simple wording if I must, but alas! Not one of the 19 articles I looked at provided an exact location or pictures clear enough to figure that out.
My logic here is very simple: If a car can hit pedestrians, then the infrastructure is bad. 9 people died to prove this point and you’re acting as if this is a freak accident that happens once in a decade. It doesn’t, people die all the time because of inattentive drivers or faulty vehicles. Bollards save lives.
Looking at the second photo in the article it looks like it bent the bollards over, which I would guess mightve launched the car into the air…
I think the bigger systemic problem would be the 8 lane roads in the area: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aHDmVJMPt3LKvAeL9?g_st=ac
So they weren’t bollards, they were decoration.
Ah yeah true, they were railings not bollards, but they look like they were solid steel, so I don’t think it’s fair to just call them “decoration”.
As someone working in the field of bollards: If they arent rated to stop a hostile vehicle, they are just decoration.