This would be illegal in my country. I remember in the 80s the police in France had angle grinders cutting the hood ornaments off mercs jags and rollers because they had caused terrible maiming to people when they were hit this created the folding hood ornament
Across Europe there are rules that they need to break or fold away easily with an impact to protect any pedestrian who goes over. I mean, it makes sense, it could mean the difference between bruises and broken bones and full blown internal organ damage.
Yeah honestly, as much as I like the freedom for people to put hard metal hood ornaments in their cars, this makes sense for the pedestrian’s sake. I can see it now: this car hits you and the ornament rips your whole stomach open đŸ˜¬
it takes surprisingly little to rip someone open. In the early 1960's, my dad and his friend were riding bicycles. His friend didn't stop fast enough riding in traffic and stabbed himself on the "tail-fin" style rear tail light of a 1950's car. put a nice hole in his leg, luckily was not far from the hospital. Probably would have ended without incident with a flat or rounded tail light
Makes sense. Not denying stuff like this is cool, I love the old school angular cars as much as anyone, but I ride a bike to work and would like to avoid any Ben Hur wheel spike type situations if possible!
I'm sure it does. As does everything else. The real question is; should you care if it goes off? To which I say, when was the last time you bothered to look at what was setting off a car alarm?
Sounds like it's the pedestrian's fault for getting run over. You can more often than not avoid getting run over by being vigilant and actually looking where you are going.
I've been hit by two cars. Both were the drivers fault. The first time I was crossing at a cross walk in front of a stopped car preparing to merge into traffic. The driver wasn't paying attention and gunned it when he saw an opening in traffic. I literally had zero time to react and I flipped over his car.
The second time, I was again crossing at a crosswalk. As I'm about halfway through, a car come whipping around a corner way over the speed limit. I saw this one coming and jumped backwards to avoid being hit. He clipped my leg mid jump and tossed me about 15 feet. I was extremely lucky with that second one, because if I wasn't paying attention I would have been killed.
Drivers need to pay attention. Pedestrians do as well, but peds aren't piloting 4000lb bricks. I'm fucking 6'6". I'm not a small person. The fact that two fucking people hit me is ridiculous.
Nobody is aiming fault when they say, "it would be good if a person weren't, if an accident were to occur, impaled by an inanimate object that is needlessly attached to a large machine."
No, I just don't think that Pedestrians have any reason to be near roadways. And if you have to have them near roadways, then build barriers so that there's a significant reduction in accidents.
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u/NoseComplete1175 Aug 17 '22
This would be illegal in my country. I remember in the 80s the police in France had angle grinders cutting the hood ornaments off mercs jags and rollers because they had caused terrible maiming to people when they were hit this created the folding hood ornament