Showing posts with label ploughing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ploughing. Show all posts

1.10.08

Ploughing Vehicles into Pedestrian's Spaces

Alcoholised learner driver kills one pedestrian and injures another as his car mounts a footpath in Melbourne.
A teenager with three times the permissible alcohol limit was doing 150km/h in a 60 zone. After crashing into a traffic light and tree, the car mounted the footpath (image & here) killing one pedestrian and seriously injuring the other. The surviving pedestrian is suffering from "head injuries, fractures to his leg, and possible fractures to his pelvis." The 19 year old learner driver injured his wrist. >via Southbank crash driver 'drunk and speeding', The Age, 011008
- If nothing effective can be done against speeding and alcoholised drivers, should not the urban territory and its pedestrian paths (and cycle paths) be studded with bars? - Just in case.
Image: Artifacts excluding motorised vehicles from spaces where non-armoured bodies move.

25.9.08

Air Bags for Pedestrians

Finally, the air-bag for pedestrians is out. As the world's urban tanks are arming themselves with more war-like capsules etc, navigation for the unarmoured (human) body becomes a death-defying challenge in the urban environment.
Ploughing into pedestrian groups on their territory occurs more often now. A market niche could develop here, selling 'safety' gadgets to people wishing to move their bodies amongst the petrol-powered shooting objects. At this stage the gadget is intended for frail seniors and rehab.

Image: Pushy motorists Berlin, Mitte