Car Crash Chaos: Bollards Cause Constant Smashes On Road
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2021
- Incredible CCTV footage shows 11 cars - including a police van - crashing into bollards in the space of a few weeks.
Residents in Woodmere Avenue in Watford say crashes happen all the time. The width of the street was reduced to 7 feet. Hertfordshire county council say the restriction is to discourage heavy goods vehicles from passing through the street but admit the street restrictions are a problem.
Love how when the councilor is speaking at 02:03 the van driver just fucks the bollards off and goes for the bus lane. Probably cheaper to get a bus lane ticket than a £1K to fix tyre alloy suspension axel etc.
There no camera I don't think
Haha I thought the exact same
@@imjustafaiz No camera at present. I would use the bus lane too, no sense in that road design.
@@imjustafaiz with how many license plate readers they got on UK roads smh
I was hoping I was not the only one who noticed the van driver using the bus lane . Don't blame him
did anybody notice, while the councillor was being interviewed, the van used the bus lane to avoid the bollards?
You're pretty eagle-eyed.
Did notice that. Bet he got a ticket though as there's always cameras at these spots. London is full of them
@@carbonsiliconnn maybe cheaper than a repair? How on earth do residents get deliveries or construction work done?
Smart driver. Cheaper to get a ticket than repair bills.
@@iceho6460 or maybe they could just LEARN TO DRIVE!!!
Those damn bollards, always jumping in front of innocent motorists.
If only there was something sitting right in front of your chest to stop that……
Also love how they say it is to stop large vehicles and then how they feel sorry for tradies with large vehicles
Those bollards should be cited - and fined! - after a thorough and withering reprimand.
I swear officer, they came out of nowhere and surrounded me, I couldn't have seen it coming!
2:04 van goes the wrong way through the bus lane while the councillor is being interviewed!!
I see that 😂
Classic, bit like the wing commander saying local jet noise complaints unfounded, locals claim they aim for phone box, as jet passes over phone box low.
It's not working perfectly - tickled by the same moment.
I saw that, too. Makes me wonder how many others have done the same thing.
It's people like them who break the law that cause all the problems.
If people obeyed the signs there would just be a normal road
😂 The last van. “Just chuck it in 1st & floor it! What’s the worst that can happen? 😂
She will fit... SHE WILL FIT!
If you look closely you see the front wheel is turned to the side and stuck. More power seems to be the prefered solution of many folks.
I'm surprised they haven't been removed with angle grinders.
Saws-All. Not not just a pretty name. With the right blade, that job is done in a blink. No sparks. Some noise, but judging by the residents, I doubt anyone's going to make that call.
if i was the owners of the house i’d make a TH-cam channel for it and get in the free views lol
anglos are too domesticated. never do anything without authorities leave
Now done
@@wilspu5590 Post video we need it.
'the bollards are causing accidents'
it seems that the problem isn't the stationary object, it's the people that can't drive their car in straight line
That learner driver went through with no trouble.
To be fair that is a very tight gap for some vehicles.
If it was really that simple there would be any accidents
i think when it gets to 10,000 written off cars, with only 1% complaining, the council might respond, but that is not likely.
@@SUPRAMIKE18 Some vehicles are unnecessarily wide. There is no obligation for infrastructure to accommodate SUVs.
So how come the other cars get through just fine?🤔
No one cares. Look at the footage. Many of these vehicles are forced to squeeze in with literal inches to spare between both sides. And these being literal steel blocks, square at that, only serves to destroy any vehicle that slightly clips them. You aren't smart trying to say "lol not every one is dumb" it's a horrible road feature that forces extreme precision and is destroying vehicles moving barely faster rhan walking pace
@@typhoon1575 ive driven through many road narrowing schemes and yes some are tight, one in mid wales particularly on a bridge in the middle of nowhere but its designed to slow down drivers and stop larger vehicles getting through. Bad drivers will blame everything and everyone but themselves.
@@oddities-whatnot and idiots will allow road hazards to persist rather than do the smart thing and use tonnage limit signs, and speed bumps
@@typhoon1575: Have to say I somewhat agree with you - if you have so many people making the same error, then there's a bigger issue at hand (either with how the drivers are trained/assessed, or how the restriction is set up).
Is there a real need to stop HGVs going down that road to begin with (e.g. a weak bridge)? Mind you I prefer making the "wrong thing" hard to do rather than punishing people after the fact with fines, and I don't live there or use that road so I can't comment that much on what would be better...
Every Politician in the world, "There's nothing we can do."
Best comment ever!
Unless it's refugees and welcome.
The problem here isn't the bollards, it's the drivers. No driver who passed their driving exam and has a license to drive, should have any problem with this.
I don't know about you guys, but when there is a tight spot, that is questionable whether the car can fit or not, you're supposed to slow down and pay attention and abort if it doesn't look like it'll work.
I know it can be a bit shocking and scary even to some people to finally see how many drivers have no business behind the wheel, but it's unfortunately true.
They can put in more bollards. I'm lobbying my neighborhood to put some of these in, idiots drive way too fast and kids live here. It's 0.1 miles to the main road you can deal with that extra quarter second it takes at a reasonable speed or you can deal with the repair bill.
They're better than speed bumps because the only time you hear them is when there's cause for celebration: Someone was prevented from killing your kid.
Instead of removing them THAT DAY they want to explore other options and have many more people crash into them until then.
Bally up with a Makita and chop it up - I doubt anyone will report it.
How the hell did they win the war? I'm all for public safety and the public good, but geez...
That’s how government works.
Wait, are you suggesting they do something. Without holding 19 meetings, residents Q&A sessions, questionnaire for the whole of Watford, get 20 estimates, another 5 meetings of works, pick the most expensive unworkable solution. Then go through it all again because the most expensive firm has gone bust half way through the job.
Please.
In a month we will strike a blue ribbon panel to investigate options. Their report will be due in 3 years.
Incredible how many cars couldn't manage the gap. Puts me off parking anywhere in Watford...
Parking spots are typically 8-9 feet. This is 7 feet wide. Now think of how many people are incapable of staying between the lines of a parking spot.
@@scottmc1855 parking spots are wider because you need to open your doors, this is atrocious driving
@@calador1918 you’re clueless. There’s literally a only few inches of margin on most vehicles. That’s definitely too narrow of a gap.
@@c0nc3ntr8d6 nah. If drivers can't manage that they shouldn't be on the road. The entire point Is making them slow down, they're choosing not too
@@Joesolo13 Even cars that did slow down are still crashing into them due to blind spots. That gap is too narrow just like your brain.
The annoying thing is the number of tiny cars which can't fit through a seven foot gap. Shows the problem is the driver, not the vehicle.
BINGO!
The tiny cars going at a snails pace and still crashing whilst the DPD van can get through them just fine at warp speed.
@@armchairgeneralissimo DPD always knows how to fit in any space and go fast.
ten years sounds like long term, already! what is wrong with these council people?
Think of all the vehicles/drivers that passed through without issue over 10 years though. It clearly isn't the biggest issue in the area. I think what we might be seeing is a rampig up of accidents recently. As to why? Who knows. But drivers in general do seem to be getting worse. And yes, cars are getting bigger all round, which won't help, but they are still less than 7 foot wide.
Notice the speed some of these crashes happen at - what is going through that drivers mind when they just plough on at the speed limit towatds what they can obviously see is a narrow section? People seem to lack attention span and forward thinking more than they used to. Too much swiping on social media? Just a general 'not my problem' attitude brewing nationwide? Who knows.
On this occasion it’s not the council and all down to bad driving.
@@thebrowns5337 that's interesting, I didn't realise it was problem free before, sounds like people are getting anxious.....
Ive worked for the council's And they are stupid at times..
“The bollards are causing accidents?”
No they’re not; the piss-poor drivers are causing them
You get to storm out of your house, then shout at the drivers (in a Watford accent) who have written off their vehicles. Remind how their insurance premium has shot up, they deserve it, that bollards are essential. scream at them at how many vehicles are written off at this exact place all the time.The most was three in a single day. If they got babies in back of their car, even better. Work that crying baby into a heart attack. Bring the Go Pro out, film them really close to their face, capture that, then sell it online. Earn money from the government here, they always earn from us. Print out the highway code regulations, then point to the paragraph why their car should be written off. If it is a company car, write to the company and get them sacked from their job for being reckless. Make them unemployed then homeless, their whole family. Turn the women to the streets who have lost it all. Get a tape measure ready at hand and point out the width of the bollard and their vehicle. Shout out how many inches were there. Write it down how many inches spare they had. Convert the inches to cms for them if they are foreign. Have a beer in your hand and tell them just inconsiderate they are, that they could have woken up a neighbor. Demand how important it is for people to get sleep and that waking them up could also be shortening their life. Then point out how many schools are nearby, and how many children they could have killed driving.
2:03 I love the guy that decides to drive in the other lane of traffic to avoid them. Might be cheaper than the vehicle repairs.
Just see it as the real driving test, if you can't pass it, get off the road
another video at night actually has a BMW X3 flip in the air.
No one else is saying this so I will... top quality reporting and production Rags! Are you a one man band with regard to filming? Impressed considering it takes the BBC a small team to do this sort of work
Can we just take a moment to understand that all the vehicles that crashed would actually fit between the bollards without damage if driven through carefully and slowly...
Yes, instead of complaining this would be a solution. We have such things here too. Going slowly helps and it's actually the desired outcome. The last van in the video compensating with more throttle shows how people actually try to handle things.
Most people aren’t able to calculate 6 inches on either side of their vehicle- nor do they need to. Tolerances should be close to normal driving conditions / spaces. You also need to factor in poor signage and accuracy of damaged bollards bent every which way.
Human nature should be acknowledged. If bollards were put on multiuser paths to restrict the speed of cyclists or to "increase awareness" in pedestrians, accidents and complaints would still happen.
One idea would be to put rumble strips on both sides in line with the bollards on the run up to the bollards so people know if they are within the bollard width.
Better idea: remove the bloody things. They have no business being there.
That would really piss of the residents.
@@brianlopez8855 more than the inconvenience of cars blocking their path? They will only go over the rumble strips if they are gonna hit the barriers so 🤷♂️
simple method is to use a height restriction instead of a width.
That does not calm the vast majority of traffic.
That's a bit unfair to all those on Penny Farthings
I'm not afraid of heights, just widths. : Stephen Wright:
Big issue there would be the bus then wouldn't fit
Search on TH-cam for "11foot8" and then think about what you just said. ;)
Seriously though, who would want this installed right outside their house? The initial comedy effect would wear off pretty quickly, considering the noise, debris and wrecked vehicles waiting for recovery all the time. The people who approved the installation of this are idiots, perhaps install similar on roads outside their houses and see how long they put up with it.
Another stupid "solution" to our traffic problem! It could only happen in England.
_"...similar on roads outside their houses..."_
These are the same NIMBY's who'd let any and every illegal into the UK knowing full well that they'll never see an illegal face to face but only hear about them again on the MSM and go _"Tut! Tut! I knew that might happen"_ -if- when something does happen.
I wouldn't be surprised if their solution is to make it a bit narrower... Morons!
I've just measured my Peugeot 407 estate car . . At a 7 foot width restriction I have 6 inches clearance either side . . All these crashes are driver errors .
@@robertkustos2931 some are yes, not all cars are Peugeot 407’s, there are wider cars, vans are wider also
I’m not a fan of these by any means but it’s pretty simple to get through, of course if you approach them like Lewis Hamilton what would you expect
What are they used for? Is it simply to slow traffic?
I think that’s an added benefit but primarily they stop larger vehicles passing through areas that may be unsuitable ie HGV’s
@@SaintDomingo1 to prevent large vehicles, like the ones that try to force their way through
Preventing large vehicles, like ambulances and fire trucks, getting through?
Oh, and any shops looking for deliveries, or residents wanting to move house and needing a removal truck.
Or a broken down car needing recovery.....
Mind you, business is booming for body shop repair companies, insurance companies and scrap yards.......
Could we please make this a series together with Rufford ford? Hours of fun to be had.
Rufford Ford is getting a bridge so no more videos from there😕
The problem is, that they are right by a dropped kerb so it provides an easy ramp up to the bollards
Do you always have trouble keeping you’re car of kerbs?
@@littlebignuts02 I know right? The amount of stupidity in this comment section. People unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions.
Council staff member "Yes I see the problem and I've seen it happen." but still the bollards are still in place. You can't write it. 🤣
its not just the council, at the foruth car id have just got the grinder out and done for the bollard.
@@deadprivacy literally if that was where I live they wouldn't last a day
The problem are incompetent drivers, not the bollards.
Has the average width of a car gotten wider in the last 10 yrs? That would leave less margin of error for unsuspecting drivers. Some SUVs are pushing on 2 meters wide leaving little margin for error at all.
That's a problem with cars not the road. Can't drive a American humvee just because I feel like owning one
@@Joesolo13 That's a problem with the urban mentality, not cars. More density does not equate to a higher standard of living. Humans are not sardines and should not be packed as such.
@@chad_bro_chill Higher density is actually pretty nice. It's why most people live in or very near cities. It's not automagically better, but it's pretty easy to increase the quality of life with higher densities. The problem is 100% with cars, as pedestrians, cyclists and the sort don't need that much space. Despite cars already stealing ridiculous amounts of space from people in cities, you're still not satisfied and want to take more and more.
I drive a white panel van and i go through the middle bus lane in Watford
The way this is set up to intentionally destroy cars makes me think that members of the council or potentially past members might have had a significant stake in local repair shops. Especially since the majority of the vehicles getting caught don't seem to be the larger ones.
What rubbish.
Plenty of cars get through without issue. Only those not paying attention have a problem.
@@grahamo22 You can call it rubbish if you like, but the sheer number of incidents per day speaks as evidence to the contrary. I think to have these bollards set so close together that they can destroy a car that's slightly too big but within the posted width is the rubbish part of this situation. It's intentionally putting drivers and passengers in harm's way.
It's the poor standard of drivers
@@dylancraft1006 True, but to be fair roads and traffic controls aren't made for the good drivers, they're made for the average driver. Average is a pretty low standard from my observations.
@@irdmoose All it indicates is a poor sense of awareness and driving standards. At least one a day??? So everyone else gets through OK? What does that tell you? I doubt most people's garage doors are much wider so I wonder why these idiots can't get through a gap like that. My coachbuilt motorhome is 7ft 5ins wide and 9ft 3ins high so guess what? I read the signs and never pranged it in the 18 years I have had it.
I do love how since the narrowing of Woodall the traffic has gotten significantly worse in Watford, speaking as a resident.
Hope no one's house is on fire or they need an ambulance. I like the way he says we are aware of the problem but have done absolutely sweet fa
There's a route straight through the middle for exactly this reason, clearly visible in the footage. Emergency services have NO problem getting through these.
@@chokehanson1830 it’s a bus lane going the opposite direction
It may be Carnage sometimes, but at least it's not the kind that leaves Grandma dead on the sidewalk
Driver - it’s too narrow!
Also Driver - *no change in speed*
Maybe we just gives licences away these days…
Yeah, I think "Toys R Us" sell licences, now!
Maybe there should be an iq gate, instead of bollards. But then again, it would amount to a race gate.
The smaller vehicles had no excuse at all
well they should have made the bollards narrower for the smaller vehicles.
I always thought there was a rule about street furniture being set a minimum of 450mm (18 inches) from the edge of a kerb. Maybe it's only guidance but it looks to me like it's something that the Council should follow. It's definitely a stated minimum for road signs in the road signs regs.
The first car was a Peugeot 107, one of the smallest cars on the market. If that can't get through then there's something seriously wrong
@@howardchambers9679 Something seriously wrong with the driver
They could get round it by installing a huge kerb about 18 tall like the ones I’ve seen
@D2M5 fine design. reckless drivers need to learn to slow down
One of the issues is down to the road on that side not leading in straight. As a result drivers may go over the drop kerb just before the first bollard and be out of alignment. There are similar ones in London that almost force an angled entry which will makes it acts as a different width, but note that drivers who go slow and have enough time to adjust the steering angle do not actually hit them, whereas all of the impacts in the video appear to show cars and vans leaping up due to higher speeds. Not sure of the full area access but the Tesco van in the bus lane at 0.43 may have needed to use it for access showing how poor the location is.
But it still comes down to some peoples lack of driving skills in the end.
Also at speed it is an optical illusion that it appears to be straight so no time to react just slow down is the answer
There's no width restriction you can't get a car or Transit size van through if you're a competent driver. If you even have to slow down to a near halt to get through, as I see daily, you are not competent.
@@wordreet This doesn't even need skills, whilst it ain't hard to navigate, a lot of factors come into play - even if you slow to 1mph to get through and still feck up
The councils are the problem with this stupidity at end of the day
@@wordreet yeah but how exactly do you suggest people improve on that?
Only the British could screw up bureaucracy like this.
Even the insurance companies will be sick of this.
The insurance companies won't be paying. The bad drivers who hit the bollards will. And they will be off the road until they have saved up enough money to pay for the damage they caused to their vehicle.
If you can’t drive a car through a 7 foot gap without smashing your car in then you should think about giving up driving😂 Every car that gets caught on this thing doesnt even slow down😩
I drive a 55 ton articulated dump truck . Some areas I have to go through are height and width restricted . Never have I hit a low bridge or scraped the side of my dumper . . All these crashes are driver error . .
The sign is incorrect. The gap is not 7 feet wide.
@@roylavecchia1436 bet it is. In ten years you think nobody measured it?
Are you saying these chumps that smash into the first bollard at 25mph, not even getting to the width restriction, didn't try and blame the council? You know they did. It's all they ever do...blame someone else.
I imagine the embarassed police driver measured it, or their super did. I imagine the news crew did, hoping for a scoop.
The fact people smash into bits around the restriction, in front of it, and don't even get to it shows poor driving.
If it happens to this many drivers, it means that it's too dangerous.
suppose you were great at judging precisely how close your car is to things when you were born then yeah? or did you have to learn, like everyone else...
they don't even teach you about judging your car's width in driving lessons and it isn't assessed in the driving test.
Another classic case of numpties within the highways department thinking they know how to design roads.
I’ve got a feeling those numpties that designed this don’t own cars, probably own bikes.
I thought this was just an American problem. Great to see it isn't :/ It's gotta be something with their education right? (college/University I mean)
Something I'm seeing a lot locally is lane reduction (formerly 3-4 lanes down to just 2 or even 1) while the traffic volume itself has significantly increased in recent years. Also lots of multi-lane roundabouts being used to replace high volume traffic lights - starting to become an issue as well.
Or just piss poor driving standards?
@@armchairgeneralissimo My car as an example is at the door mirrors 1 inch wider than that restriction. The width of the car is 76 inches, or in other words, 6 foot 4 inches. Given those steel girders are not even dead vertical, I, for one, would not be risking a £50K car regardless of how good or bad my driving standard is.
I don't quite get this, I had 6'6" width restrictions at the top of a road I used to live on for years, yet only saw maybe 1 or 2 scrapes ever. It must be the design which maybe hard to read from the driver seat...
That's my thought. There's a lot going on as you approach those rather unremarkable looking bollards
@@stevecarter8810 I tend to avoid any stationary solid object in the road when I drive. Maybe that's just me.
@@mrcompatable so let's put you next to these bollards and you can pass on your strategy to each driver
@@mrcompatable nice smartarse comment.🙄they're not hitting the bollards right in the center of their front bumper.
@@mrcompatable so you do hit stationary objects then?
I'm sure the local body shops are loving this.
I would have stuck a flyer adverting the towing and body shop repair onto the bollards itself. Obviously on the drivers side.
We need more traps like this in heavy built up residential areas, to STOP those speeding drivers completely ignoring the 20mph speed limit
I'm putting some up infront of my house now
@@gholarex4657 🤣🤣🤣
I hope you need an ambulance desperately which can,t get to you because of these ridiculous obstacles
Surely a camera could prevent speeding vans
@@robertparsons224 sorry, but most if not all speed camera's are switched off, or are dummy one's due to the cost of its up keep for local authorities and that's a FACT. Camera's won't do a thing.
These don't have anything to do with the speed limit, they are to stop heavy vehicles.
driven through hundreds of times and so has my wife and never had a problem, i think the standard of driving is large part of issue. if its removed there will be a rat run through for large vehicles as this is straight off the A41 and a quick route to central watford.
Why do you think that is especially when the UK has one of the hardest driving test to pass?
@@salmaabdullahgb hard to say when i dont know the drivers who crashed, but looking at the videos the number of people driving small to medium cars who hit the bollards is concerning as they are driving on same roads locally as me
how do you suggest the standard of driving should be improved then? people don't really get much opportunity practicing judging exactly how close the corners of their car are to things, not unless they have a spare car that they don't care about to practice with.
@@stephenparsons2002 how is that concerning lmao they're not going to end up killing you because of misjudging the width of their car.
Maybe your familiarity with the obstacle has something to do with negotiating it?
Here's a thought, if you don't know the width of your own small car, slow the fuck down when approaching a narrow gap.
First sensible comment! 👌
I own a Citroën DS3 now but still imagine I'm driving my old Dacia when squeezing past vehicles turning right.
Even a large car like Mecedes S class has 7 inches to spare on a 7 foot width restrictor, a Ford Focus has 13 inches. If you can't get an average car through a 7 foot gap should you even be driving?
PLOT TWIST: This was actually a smart solution. There's a car repair and bodywork shop just up ahead from the bollards, and they've been doing really well since they were installed.
Looks like they're calming traffic to me .
😂😂
@Advanced Driving You wouldn't wreck your car on a 6'9" gap if you were mildly competent behind the wheel. Whether you face your incompetence calmly or not is down to character. Also calm traffic is a very different thing to a calm driver.
@Advanced Driving maybe, just maybe if the other 99% can make it through no problem, maybe it's not the road's fault??
How much more are councils in the SE going to do to make peoples lives miserable ?
They're not. 99+% pass through there without incident.
Lawyers would have a field day with this if in U.S.
and you've just summed up what makes the U.S. [NOT] so great
In the US, if the device does not follow the Manual of Uniform Traffic-Control Devices (MUTCD), the jurisdiction that built it would have to have an engineer sign the plans...and risk losing their share of road funding.
MUTCD calls for bollards to be brightly-colored, and reflectorized if they're close to the path of traffic.
I suppose those lawyers would point out the fact that the similar restriction (in the other direction) does not cause this high level of damage. Something is wrong with this width restriction as compared to the other.
The ramp (seen at 01:31 ) built into the kerb is one thing I notice. I haven't seen the other restriction, so I don't know what else is different.
From other comments, it sounds as if the UK doesn't have passenger vehicles wider than 6'6" - so, a number of vehicles for the UK market (e.g. the Rolls-Royce Phantom and some SUVs from BMW, Volvo) must be different from the ones in the US market.
Lawyers in this country should have a field day now. As the council officially admitted there's a problem on camera your worship. Check book please!
@@musography6958 "what makes the U.S. [NOT] so great"
You have a strange sense of greatness. Perhaps that is why the U.S. is no longer an English colony.
I would love to sit by my window and watch this happen daily!!
It would be so cool. You could be woken out of your sleep that you need to function so you could hear metal screeching and tires bursting and then turn up for work or socialising really exhausted because night after night day after day you keep hearing car wrecks happen, thankfully you will be able to get valium and pain medication from the NHS for free! So cool.
I would love to be able to remove them without repercussions. And I'm generally in favor of public-good measures.
They wouldnt be 10 days in front of my house.
Just step it up a notch!
Create a "Bollard Crashes" Channel! Just like the Low Bridges, which "Rip open Tall Trucks!"
You are a pretty sick individual.
Residents should put traffic cones in the side lanes and close the road completely - leaving only the two-way bus lane.
Historians say that blue van is still stuck...
If I just revved a bit harder...
😂 these are brilliant, now take away the license from every motorist that hits one and soon enough it’ll be a pleasure to drive on the roads again.
Agreed we need these everywhere removing the plonkers from our roads.
@@nothingsurprisesmeanymore
Reminds me of when speed bumps were installed in my old neighborhood some years back. They weren't even there for 1 days before someone hit the bumps hard enough to stall him car and a passenger let out a yelp.
Love to see you drive when you retire from trucking. I bet i could pick holes with everything you do. We all get older, just because you think you're in the best driving form of your life, doesn't mean you will be like it forever. We fade, accept it and retract your comment
@@gary63693 driving isn’t about giving people chance after chance! You can either do it or you can’t, if you can’t give your licence back and take the bus.
I retired from driving almost 10 years ago, spent 20 years at it, mugs game! Very much doubt the claim about picking holes though 🤪 I’m perfect! Could easily do that gap at 150mph going forwards and at least 50mph in reverse 👌🏻 like Russ Swift 😉
@@TheMuddatrucker I'll watch you give your licence back when you get older then fella, unless you retract that outburst of yours. From one trucker to another
This couple having the best live entertainment during covid they know it!
This situation actually simulates a motoring experiment on the awareness and driving attitudes of motorists. Drivers who approach the barriers with due caution are seen to execute a measured drive through, as opposed to those who approach at high speed (clearly owing to the lack of due care and attention) and smash their vehicles. The issue here is mode of driving, not the width restriction.
No it ain’t. Look how tight those bloody things are. One wrong turn and you’re scraping your alloys or hitting the curb and barrier.
They’re pathetic
@@Aaron11oD One wrong turn is all it ever takes to have a car accident. This is no different. If you can't get a car throught that gap, get a bus.
@@Aaron11oD if correct it’s a 7’ gap plenty of 6’6” restrictions out there that vans can get through, so it’s not that tight, for cars anyway. How do you judge not hitting parked cars or other objects in the road. One wrong turn in driving could cost you your license your vehicle or yours or someone else’s life. Then you don’t get a second chance.
Just drive down the middle 2:03
I mean i think that's the best solution
I like the little squeak of death the car gives at 1:45
Meanwhile in the local council office someone is pissing themselves laughing and getting paid to come up with stupid ideas like this.
Get rid of the width restriction and just put a height restriction bar in place. Job done. It's not rocket science ffs.
It’s also not rocket science to learn to drive through them.
This is one of the reasons cordless sawsalls were invented.
I'd have those things down to 3 inches in height in no time at all.
You stole my comment by I said it but still like
You wouldn't even have cut half of one when your ass was hauled to jail, Mr Keyboard tough guy !
Oxy Acet Torch would do it in super fast
@@macondo0143 never underestimate the ture power of a hi vis vest
Great idea John. Then the fuckwits would mostly just get punctures and wheel damage.
The question is why no crashes on the other side .As viewing the video those metal bollards are on the other side to .So it's drivers not slowing down that's the problem .Not paying attention regards width restrictions.They are as you can see arriving at this to quick
The camera does not pick up cars across the road, if they do crash it will not record it.
@@mrarduino2977 If the camera does not pick up cars on the other side .Then why does the footage if you view the video. Show cars driving through from the actual house camera .Driving through on the other side then
@@btet19 the way Ring door bells work is that you select an area that once there is movement in that area it records it, so if area on other side of road is not selected it will not record just them, however you may still be right that accidents only happen in one direction.
@@mrarduino2977 The reason I believe there are no crashes on the other side.If you look there's a road junction so cars will be slowing down knowing cars may pull out
What genius from the council thought making it that tight of a gap was a good idea?
It looks ok to me, those people shouldn't be driving. Inc the police.
The same twat who put a road narrowing on the brow of a hill (bus route) in Cardiff. Taken away some months later at taxpayers expence.
What solution would you suggest?
@@xaiano794
Retractable bollard for the buss lane, a normal wide road for everyone else but with a tin opener girder to stop HGV'S.
Perfect solution. If you can't slow down and drive through that, just hand over your driving license. It's a residential area, slow down.
The makers of this should be held accountable for all the broken vehicles and fined for endangering citizens
what danger?
@@evolutionxbox
Flying debris for one!
on the contrary, I think the drivers who are crashing into the bollards should be made to pay for the damage to the bollards
It's the drivers who are crashing, unless you're suggesting those pesky bollards are jumping in front of poor unsuspecting motorists 😂😂
A friend used to live nearby & the ones on the other side of the road are hardly involved in any crashes. He said the difference is one side has full height kerbs both sides acting as 'tramlines' between the bollards, the other has dropped kerbs for the adjacent house's drives so drivers are unaware they have wheels on the kerb and then it acts as a ramp into the bollard.
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Great insight
Spot on! You can see this at 0:38 .. You my friend is what we need in the world .. *sighs*
Are those bollards still there?
It worries me that people don't have the spatial awareness to realise their wheels are on a kerb
Wasn't aware cars were legally allowed to drive on kerbs.
Only a council could do this - and then refuse to do anything about it
when flying cars are invented then mass produced for the general public will rectify this council problem faster.
At this point why don't just put up two large metal sheets on each side with gently decreasing distance between them, so any car that goes through, will be the right size at the end.
I can just imagine the council meeting when this plan was discussed and agreed. "We have taxed motorists as much as we can or dare. And still they insist on driving their vehicles. So let's damage their vehicles, and fuck them right up!"
...and yet. And yet, most people - thousands of them, seem capable of driving through this 7' gap without touching the sides. What makes these people special?
Hopefully their will be a few lawsuits. Some of those crashes look pretty nasty.
It's the problem of the drivers if they can't slow the fuck down.
Well, it's not the goverment damaging peoples cars.
It's drivers damaging their own cars by driving into obstacles they could avoid.
If you damage your car there, you've got nobody to blame but yourself...
@@diesistkeinname795 My point is that the government is asking and expecting drivers to be better than they actually are. Through that tight gap in some vans and larger cars, there literally is NO room for error. And us humans make errors all the time. Seems unfair to punish drivers for a very minor underestimation.
Here's what I don't get: My car is 1800mm (excl mirrors, which don't matter here) wide, so 5ft11. Meaning I've got ~6 inches (or ~15 cm) to play with either side. Most hatchbacks will be around the same (Golf is 1799mm apparently) or less for smaller ones. And yet it seems most of the accidents seem to be with hatchbacks, which should be able to fit quite easily.
I can understand if you're struggling with a Chelsea tractor (a Range Rover apparently is 1990mm excl mirrors, ie just over 6.5ft. An Audi Q8 similar at 1995mm) and probably most vans (too lazy now to look them up), but the vast majority of the crashes seem to be with hatchbacks?
Likely that it’s misjudgment by drivers but if ‘normal’ saloon cars are catching the posts, is it also possible that the signed width is incorrect?
@@henryluczak9156 you do realise the amount of complaints the council will have had. They will have measured them sine installing them. People hitting them can measure them. The guy filming the crashes can (probably nas) measure them. The news cew likely did.
It ks poor driving, nothing else.
We at least three vehicles just plough straight into the post/kerbs on approach - they didn't even get to the narrow bit.
The restriction has been there 10 years...it is safe to say it has been measured in that time, trust me.
A friend and I were standing on a street corner waiting to cross and had to dive out of the way when an SUV clipped the corner. Then he flipped us the bird as he sped off for standing on the sidewalk where he wanted to drive. The problem is entitled drivers who think things like curbs and traffic signs are just guidelines people can follow at their convenience.
I believe the main issue is how the curb raises just before the first bollard on the left - you'll get no warning as you're sucked up the curb and presented with an immovable object.
"not working perfectly " Actually its working perfectly, exactly how they wanted it to work.
You get to storm out of your house, then shout at the drivers (in a Watford accent) who have written off their vehicles. Remind how their insurance premium has shot up, they deserve it, that bollards are essential. scream at them at how many vehicles are written off at this exact place all the time.The most was three in a single day. If they got babies in back of their car, even better. Work that crying baby into a heart attack. Bring the Go Pro out, film them really close to their face, capture that, then sell it online. Earn money from the government here, they always earn from us. Print out the highway code regulations, then point to the paragraph why their car should be written off. If it is a company car, write to the company and get them sacked from their job for being reckless. Make them unemployed then homeless, their whole family. Turn the women to the streets who have lost it all. Get a tape measure ready at hand and point out the width of the bollard and their vehicle. Shout out how many inches were there. Write it down how many inches spare they had. Convert the inches to cms for them if they are foreign. Have a beer in your hand and tell them just inconsiderate they are, that they could have woken up a neighbor. Demand how important it is for people to get sleep and that waking them up could also be shortening their life. Then point out how many schools are nearby, and how many children they could have killed driving.
@@garvintimmann do you think the local authority cares about any of this?
@@garvintimmann
What an extraordinarily puerile rant to say absolutely nothing of value.
What gets me is the speed some of theses numpties go through, or should I say try to go through. I’ve got a similar width restriction near me in Overton Drive E11 it’s only 2m (6”6’) 6 inches less than this one and used to take my 3ton van through at jogging speed and never had a problem yet I’ve seen many people struggle to get their much smaller cars through without clouting their wing mirrors or scraping wheel arches.
I used to live in Redbridge a few years ago, and I know the restriction you mean. Like I say above, if the drivers just learned to drive properly, it wouldn't be a problem.
They should all jointly sue the council for all the damage and losses
Tax payers though 😂
@Jac K I would suggest if the police have managed to smash up a vehicle that sets a certain president for saying it’s unacceptable
Only in Watford would people complain about crashing into a stationary object as if they aren’t in control of their own vehicle
wow , thats probably the most scientific approuch uptil now . is there statistic evidence to back up your theory ?
@@woodennecktie yes
Perfect example of politicians and bureaucrats CAUSING problems and headaches for people instead of solving their problems.
Council: we don’t have any money to fix pot holes…
Council: we have money to build death traps tho
Somebody died there?
"To stop heavy goods vehicles"
Most places just use 7.5T limit sign
7 foot? I used to take a Peugeot boxer through a 7 foot gap with out much trouble, but from the way those cars and vans are bouncing into the air, they are going much too fast!
Can you imagine what it would be like if they gave away a pilots license as easily as they do a car license.
does the P.S. stand for Perfect Sod by any chance?
@@Earl-Dumarest
It depends a bit on who is talking to me, to my old partner on the ambulance it was perfectly sensible to my sister it is pretty stupid, to the guys I used to warm up for kendo perfect sod it was, "Are you out of breath?" If the answer was yes then they needed to work on their stamina, if the answer was no then they wouldn't mind another session of suburi. But in fact my father was Peter Sharpe Allen.
The gap is not 7 feet wide, even though the sign claims it is.
@@roylavecchia1436 Even at 6'9", it's more than wide enough for all the vehicles we see failing to negotiate it.
Imagine sitting down for dinner and hearing the sound of metal snapping. "Oh dear, another one bites the dust"
I went though this today, recognised the bollards and the white Caddy van. It’s a VERY snug 7ft.
My van fits more easily though most 6” 6 restrictions...
I understand this is not a joke to the residents nor to those whose cars get damaged, but honestly, that was funny as hell to watch.
You get to storm out of your house, then shout at the drivers (in a Watford accent) who have written off their vehicles. Remind how their insurance premium has shot up, they deserve it, that bollards are essential. scream at them at how many vehicles are written off at this exact place all the time.The most was three in a single day. If they got babies in back of their car, even better. Work that crying baby into a heart attack. Bring the Go Pro out, film them really close to their face, capture that, then sell it online. Earn money from the government here, they always earn from us. Print out the highway code regulations, then point to the paragraph why their car should be written off. If it is a company car, write to the company and get them sacked from their job for being reckless. Make them unemployed then homeless, their whole family. Turn the women to the streets who have lost it all. Get a tape measure ready at hand and point out the width of the bollard and their vehicle. Shout out how many inches were there. Write it down how many inches spare they had. Convert the inches to cms for them if they are foreign. Have a beer in your hand and tell them just inconsiderate they are, that they could have woken up a neighbor. Demand how important it is for people to get sleep and that waking them up could also be shortening their life. Then point out how many schools are nearby, and how many children they could have killed driving.
Well not everybody hits it,so maybe its the drivers who are the problem
Proves that many drivers don't know where the edges of their vehicles are located!
This is like natural selection for bad drivers 🤣
One person with an angle grinder could fix this problem.
The council can not imagine it!
Some people should not be allowed out on their own nevermind in charge of 2 tonnes of metal.
The people that hit it are as stupid as the people that designed it.
Some people are no longer locked up in mental wards! They are just left out on the streets off their medication!
And we all have to suffer!
@@goawakeneveryone4365 or laugh
Lol 2 tonnes
@@calador1918 Yes. Really amusing weight then?
The audible "fuck" right at the end from the blue Transit driver is perfect 😄
This is the best video and the problem isn't the bollards, it's idiots driving too fast and unsafely.
they are knowingly causing crashes and knowingly causing people injury, whoever is in charge of that road should be in jail for causing all that damage and all those injuries.
I think the big problem the council has and the reason they've chosen to implement such an unsatisfactory 'solution' is that the average driver of the vehicles they wish to exclude has technically superior driving ability (and a better view of the road from a higher driving position) than the average driver of e.g. a Fiat 500. Given that vans are not vastly wider than many cars, they therefore have very little leeway between a restriction that inconveniences spatially unaware drivers and a restriction that fails to stop anyone at all.
All of which raises the question of why they persisted with such a harebrained policy. A height restriction would on the face of it seem much more straightforward since vans *are* much taller than average cars and driving under a height restriction doesn't require any skill; you either clear it or you don't.
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@@mickblockvan driver fit through narrow gap no problem guvnor, make gap too narrow for van? many car driver struggle 😭
That council must be out a fortune from claims. If you can't drive between the bollards, you can't drive.
A similar problem in our area with deceptive road layout a white line painted on the footpath/joint cycleway near the kerb the road in the dark has the illusion of being wider than it actually is so people actually drive closer to the cycleway
I worked as a Welder for a for Sign Company making the body of the Steel Bollards out of 1/4 "" thick Plate with Angle Iron Base from which was bolted down into Deep Concrete with long Bolts , the whole Surround was 6 "" deep 1/4"" plate bolted deep into Concrete They would rip a Vehicle in half,
Many of these Deadly Bollards must still be in Existence.
they were superseded by the cheap plastic Bollards which cause only slight damage
We would have a solution for this where I come from (Northern Ireland)...during the night, someone would turn up with a power cutter and those bollards would be gone! Or, more simply, do what the van driver did and drive through the bus lane. Forget about cameras, they wouldn’t last ten minutes after being installed. People power.
Expecting the government to fix the problems government created is the definition of insanity.
The government made that street. It seems better than the muddy trail that was there before.
I am surprised by the stupid construction of these barriers. Next city has a similar road. They used the double height curbs meant for bus stops. In a sense these curbs are purpose built, they should avoid damage when bus drivers slightly misjudge and hit the curb. Due to the smooth surface and curve they guide away your front tire instead of letting you climb the curb. Not a perfect solution, some scratch their rims, but definitely not such a carnage.
I see why they are hitting it. If you look at the curb on the left side, there is a ramp. Their left wheel is probably going up this ramp & they probably think their left side is OK since they didn't feel their wheel hit the curb.
If the curb was raised & if the bollards were moved away from the edge of the curb, then that should reduce accidents. Or even remove the bollards completely since they serve no purpose.
The bollards do not cause the accidents, which is clear with the number that make it with no issues. I own a Skoda Fabia, measured it, it is just over 5'8" or 1732mm which explains why many bigger vehicles manage the barriers without issue.
My Lamborghini 6.11 so would barely squeeze throw, wish I had a Skoda Fabia if I lived there !
It’s like the 11’-8” bridge but sideways and maybe even more destructive
That was my thought. Perhaps combine these obstacles. That would be fun.
But how ? Were these people all routinely driving on the curb?
The curb seems to have a ramp on it. So if one of their wheels is on it, they wouldn't know if they touched the curb.
If there was no ramp, they would be able to feel their car hit the curb on the left side.
If you cant drive through a hole that's wider then a small car by a fair amount then shouldn't be driving at all, helps to keep bad drivers off the road by making them pay for premiums
You imply that large car means bad driver.
How about we use our brains for a moment and realize that a speed bump is more effective than a road hazzard
They should put them on all roads it keeps us safe fron bad drivers. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@britishprofessor9957 are you going to pay the repair bill of all the people smashing into this road Hazzard?
i feel like you have never driven a car in your life.
@@typhoon1575 If you drive a larger car, the correct course of action isn't to crash your car like a dumbass who shouldn't be let behind the wheel. It's to stop, and go another way. Jeesh why is this so hard for you people?!
I'd come back with a grinder and sort out those bollards good and proper.
Try looking where your going....
Or you could just learn how to drive so they don't bother you
@@calador1918 or they could instead use speed bumps. A very cheap alternative that doesn't rip your car's side off because yiu were 2 inches too far to the left
@@typhoon1575 that would be a great idea if they were trying to slow cars down rather than stopping large vehicles. Last I checked vans were able to go over speed bumps 🙄think before you comment
@@calador1918 ever see a tonnage limit sign? They do less damage and can be enforced via fines
I see the Very Clever Man From THE Council has FINALLY recognised what people have saying. It's only taken TEN YEARS.
I am from Canada and we don’t have these. I had a rental car in France that was destroyed because of retractable bollard. There was no sign, no warning. It is unreasonable to assume that all drivers would be aware of these things.