Flexible road signs
 

Our regional ITV news programme reported today that one of our local
authorities is testing flexible (collapsible) road signs. They
showed a car that recently hit such a sign: damage to car minimal
whereas the sign went down. I don't think South & West Surfers have
tested out these signs yet.

Couldn't find a link on the ITV website, but here is an earlier BBC link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4587629.stm

Long overdue, IMHO! Surely Mr Toad would have appreciated
if the French road sign he encountered were bendy.

They don't do them in France, ask Toady...

(Sorry Si...)

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There is a big campaign amongst the biking community here in Spain to get the existing metal armco that lines so many roads changed for a more "human impact friendly" version.

There is a plastic system that does the same job but without the dreadfull injuries the existing type can cause.

Hope he does not take it the wrong way but those terrible injuries that Big Ape suffered would have been nowhere near as serious if this system had been employed. :?

Bendy signs? You'd soon have half the signs in the country flattened by vandalising young buggers with nowt better to do.

Eye. :cry:

Yeha - do they make one that pops back up afterwards?

No point in the sign, say warning of the sharp bend ahead, going down and saving one person only to endanger or injure hundreds more because there's no longer any warning of the hazard... that's what a lot of the signs are for, ain't they!?

Did anyone see the 5th Gear test with the lamppost that was very good. A car drove into a post doing about 60mph with only a little damage. Same thing as the signs I would guess.

I flew into a sign at about 30mph and nearly broke my back and winded myself. Hurt like feck it did. Stopped me going into a barbed wire fence though. I have mixed opinions lol.

They don't really do them anywhere it seems... if they did, it would have possibly saved the life of a friend of mine, Chutz's and Coombest's. :(

Sadly far too many bikers are killed by badly engineered roads. The list of poor engineering includes

Killer signs and barriers
Bollards on traffic islands that obstruct drivers views of oncoming LHS of the road.
Walls/hedges that obstruct visability on junctions
speed humps that deflect bikes sideways
Poorly maintained roads
Ironwork on road badly situated

Only once the road engineers start being prosecuted for poor design will things improve