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Sometimes it's quite explicit: in Korea there are signs saying 사망사고 발생지점, literally, "Place of a fatal accident". The problem is that sometimes that part of th
by yongjik 10y ago
Sometimes it's quite explicit: in Korea there are signs saying 사망사고 발생지점, literally, "Place of a fatal accident".
The problem is that sometimes that part of the road isn't even particularly dangerous, so I wonder what was the rationale for forever reminding people that somebody died there...
- protomyth 10y agoI remember little white crosses on the side of the road in Montana. If a turn had a number of crosses that was a pretty good indication that you really need to be careful.
- domador 10y agoIn Costa Rica, for a number of years a few years ago, they would paint a hollow yellow heart, with a halo, inside a box, on top of the part of a street or road where a fatal accident occurred. However, after some time, they stopped repainting them after each time the road was resurfaced.