Man said he was ‘devastated’ after hitting cement prongs along I-285 causing $2,000 in damage
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- A metro Atlanta driver is raising safety concerns after an incident on Interstate 285 left his car with over $2,000 in damages.
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That’s insane. Imagine hitting those on a motorcycle.
You'd likely blow both tires and flatten both rims. Good luck controling it afterwards. You likely wouldn't survive
@@JamesStreet-tp1vbif ur wearing the right gear you’d most likely survive lol unless ur going like 140
That's insane. Imagine veering outside the lane of travel and not looking where you're going on a motorcycle.
A helmet will save you
WhyWould They NOT put Cones or Orange Barrels over them
What about emergency vehicles trying to go around traffic? F THEM too?
That's an excellent point.
So many people making excuses for this when there are literally none. It's a road hazard. Remove them.
obey the law
@@BoopSnoothuh
@@BoopSnoot Emergency vehicles are ALLOWED to drive out of their lane. There is no warning that there are dangerous protrusions in the roadbed, if I was that BMW owner, I'd be suing because it just as well could have caught his car's undercarriage and thrown him into other vehicles possibly causing fatalities.
Emergency vehicles going around stopped vehicles to get to an accident hits one and people die because of it, GDOT is going to be sued for 10s of millions.
Someone sideswipes you, shoves you over or an animal runs across the road or a person runs across the road or there is junk in the road because someone's load fell out, you swerve and you hit a "prong"
But your car is different and it yanks the wheel over making you swerve into 4 other cars and 3 people die and several go to the hospital. Yeah, those are hazards that need removed NOW, not after GDOT "looks into it", NOW!
@@TheJunkymagi obey the law
Who in their right mind would put those things in a highway
They are sign mounts. They are designed for the sign to break away cleanly when struck by a vehicle. The location isn’t the best, however. They need to either replace the missing sign or extract the mounts.
Don’t cross solid white lines. That’s the law. Follow it. Stay off your phone. Pay attention to driving and only driving. Then your dumbass won’t hit them.
@@jtclark4534you never had to emergency pull over before? Never has to dodge a maniac?
Never had to go around some garbage? This is just poor placement and even more poor judgment from the city. I've never seen a sign or breakaway mounts put in a worse more dangerous place. The city should be paying for any damages and removing that crap asap. They can fine the company that actually left it there.
@@jtclark4534 If that was reality, why make light poles that breakaway during a crash??
Just don't crash into light poles and the city can make them as hard as tanks, right?
@@jtclark4534 FACTS! Too many people are encouraging bad driving! Clearly you can't park or cross those white lines not even the police can so what makes people think that they can, this guy's a joke
Road barriers are designed to prevent or minimize injury, NOT cause injury or death. Somebody should be fired.
It probably wasn't the city. anybody can pose as the city with the right lights and orange vest.
Well, he wasn't injured and he didn't die...
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thank god for those metal knobs i had a semi truck cut me off trying to make a last second turn like that not paying attention to the highway signs
Nah you sound like the type of person that didn't let them over. Or when someone tries to pass you you speed up @@koltred
@@slipinslider its a 3 lane road, 2 lanes split to the right, 1 lane splits to the left, the semi jumped from my right in front of me to my left over the solid line. that metal prong would have popped his tires and he would have had to deal with karma for not following the traffic regulations. its pretty simple, this idiot wouldnt have messed his car up if he followed the lines on the road. stop excusing peoples behavior and pretending to have moral highground, your just encouraging child brained morons to never learn from their actions
It's pure negligence to leave them there after construction has ended over a year ago !
It's Georgia, do you really expect any better?
@@brianleeper5737 It's atlanta , so no I don't really expect a whole lot and most of that is bad .
@@brianleeper5737 It's not better in other places.
Look at the design... they're specifically made and oriented to cause tire and wheel damage. They aren't there on accident or as a construction leftover. They're there to keep drivers out. The roads dept just isn't admitting it . However, they're a danger because there's no warning.
They F N up roads all over GA
Why is this a question at all? Those should be removed immediately. There are 100 reasons why that is reckless and dangerous.
@@newmobile1455 are you the moron who put them there in the first place?
@@newmobile1455that lane is also for emergency, they’re not in the middle of nowhere, they’re in the middle of the highway!! Incredibly dangerous
@@newmobile1455 Such a dumb comment. You're probably not even old enough to drive.
@@newmobile1455imagine having to swerve to avoid and obstacle or obstruction on the road. Should the person just run into the obstruction, swerve into the adjacent lane of travel and hit another vehicle, or safely avoid it by using shoulder? No matter how you try to square it, there isn't supposed to be anything in the roadway, whether in the lane of travel or on the shoulder, that could damage a vehicle or possibly cause a driver to lose control. They mount road signs outside of the shoulder of the interstate for a reason.
Installed to hold up a construction sign in 2023…. Crazy.
The level of bureaucratic incompetence never ceases to amaze.
Is this inhank johnson's 4th district ? That would go a long way toward explaining this .
It's called communism
😂 and what does it have to do with this idiot making an illegal lane change in the gore.....
Hey we're not responsible, it's not located on a public highway.
"We are currently looking into this". I hate those f*king words. Just f*king FIX IT.
Look at 2:26 timestamp, you can see the pole for one of those signs laying there on the cement wall.
Well spotted - GOLD star to you!! Cheers from Oz!
And you can also see it towards the end behind her just chilling like a villian lol...
lol
@@andersonomo597 I want a gold star :(
@@superfly1842 Done! You can have one from me with a special sprinkling of magic fairy dust on top for being so kind in replying to my comment. Hope this puts a little joy in your day!! Cheers from Oz!
I work highway construction, and no way in hell would an inspector allow you to place these anywhere near a traveling surface. Hell we even had to clean up the side of the road when working, there were to be zero hazards to drivers.
Buddy if u signed up to get paid 30hr to drive our highways and u weren’t picking up trash I’d get u
Apparently you don't work for GDOT because those bastards don't care.
as a motorcycle rider, those things are nightmare fuel
Yes. The State approved motorcycle training course teaches riders to have a planned avenue of escape. Then DOT intentionly builds potentially fatal obstacles into one of the taught avenues of escape.
Tell it. 285 is scary enough on a bike (licensed rider 40 years), always has been. This sort of crap eliminates escape avenues (like the grates that parallel the direction of travel on the connector, more nightmare fuel) and just don't make any sense.
As a motorcycle rider, if you stay in your lane, then you have nothing to worry about…
@@dante9192
What if you have to pull over for an emergency and ride over those prongs because they are not visible?
Do you think we live in a world that accidents don’t happen and nothing happens to people who stay on their lanes?
Stop being condescending, it’s time to quit acting like an intelligent snob with your redundant remarks. You’re not in high school anymore. Unless you are, then that would explain why.
@dante9192
you gonna "stay in your lane" when a big rig merges on you?
You gotta be a phycho to leave those things in the road like that.
They're treating us as if we're idiots. I really hate being aware and seeing stupid intersection control lights at the very worst possible timing so that you might as well go less than half the speed limit to make the next green light JUST in time.
@@robertruge2916 Judging from the comments here defending these deadly objects, many of us ARE idiots.
Agree…and that’s most people today
A Union worker left it there.
@@robertruge2916 To be fair, most people are idiots.
That is absolutely insane. If gdot doesn’t remove these within 12 hours of being aware of this, then they are just criminally negligent.
He was distracted driving (illegal).
Pilgrim, pay attention whilst driving. Please stay in your lane and exercise due caution at all times. I feel little for that bloke (probably a democrat/Kamala voter). He reeks of, *"I'M VICTIMIZED"* ... Imma-gonna-slappa-yo-arse-wit-da-wet-spaghetti. Mama Mia!
At time of placement, they should have also designed some short ramp or something, placed on those things, to allow vehicles to pass over them. It shouldn't be that hard. That, or make them removable during non-use.
Props to that camera crew for getting those shots in the split of that road. That’s some bravery!
The Cameraman never dies.
maybe they landed a drone there, got the shot, then flew away ???
Drones... Lol nah idk
@@eroomekim1179gmta lol
Huh?
It's 2024 ....you don't think the station can afford a $99 drone😅
That's a booby trap with intent to cause harm or death. Very malicious and evil. This is like tying a shotgun to a public doorknob.
According to lawyer Ugo Lord, *checks notes -
You can't set a trap to cause a booby!
Georgia controlled and run by Democrats
No it aggressive drivers that use that lane to bypass traffic
Malicious and evil? Maybe you should get a dictionary and look up those two words.
@@hueginvieny7959 too bad situations aren't black and white. Context exists and there may come a scenario where in an emergency, let's say you are about to get in a car accident, that might require you to move out of the way, and if that thing punctures your tires and damages the rim it might be counterproductive to safety.
You need all parts of the highway for emergency maneuvers. Or for emergency crews. This is dangerous!
obey the law
@@BoopSnoot
You mean like not putting dangerous objects in the road!
@BoopSnoot so you think emergency vehicles should be destroyed when they try to go around traffic jams? I bet if you were in the back of an ambulance, you'd be begging them to do so
@BoopSnoot
This has nothing to do with that. You could need to veer for an emergency to avoid an accident. This is very dangerous!
@@BoopSnoot shhhhhhh, get a better sock
Good drivers sometimes miss their exits. Bad drivers never miss their exits.
I'm a truck driver. I could make a list of all the ridiculous, negligent, and dangerous things I've seen GDOT do on the interstates there.
Bet they never take responsibility - they need oversight.
It is a shame that you don't have the time but we all must make an effort to disclose these hazards.
And it still pales in comparison to the entitled reckless drivers.
@@1utube01Aggressive
Crap like this is 100% intentional. Ain't no way things like this get accidentally overlooked.
Imagine if we had something dangerous on our property and when the city confronts us, we just say "We are looking into it." Do you think they'd accept that answer?
Yeah, I'm sure that would work out well.
"The people wouldn't be injured if they didn't step on my hidden bear trap. It's their fault for stepping off the sidewalk."
Literally the same energy GDOT is giving here.
Best reply! 🎉
Stay off my lawn! There's a ton of dangerous stuff on people's property. Children's toys that can be tripped over or pop a tire, decorative rocks that can be tripped on or pop a tire, garden tools that can be tripped on or pop a tire. How about not driving through people's yards. And also, not crossing the solid white lines. I feel for him but if it were a big rock sitting there, who would he sue? Or a rake that fell out of a truck? Or a 4x4 fence post? Who would he sue? Nobody. He'd file a claim with his insurance which is what he should've done here. In fact, he probably did do that and they refused his claim because he wasn't driving on the roadway.
@@chazw3x A rake, 4x4 block of wood, or other item that fell out of a vehicle wouldn't have been left in the road intentionally, nor would you expect to find those things lying around like you would in a person's yard. And having a large rock lying so close to the roadway, especially at a junction with traffic going on either side of it, would be dangerous as well. Having a guardrail there is one thing, a hunk of metal 3 inches off the road is something else entirely.
They should have left the sign there that the prongs were supporting so drivers could see a hazard, or remove the prongs when they no longer serve a purpose when the sign was removed.
Wow wow wow I’m a truck driver and the things I have seen that are dangerous in metro Atlanta like road defects massive potholes uneven bridge to road transitions that will take the steering wheel out of your hands and cause loss of control …blown tires random things like ladders 🪜 and furniture 🪑 it’s a battlefield out here 🤦🏾♂️
Facts I think they are trying to cause more senseless accidents 😔
Man GDOT out here setting boopy traps 🪤 😂
I swear Atlanta is not a real place why would they not remove those big hunks of steel when they were done
No seriously ive lost two tires just off of the massive craters in 285 alone...ruined my whole memorial day weekend
You should drive in Detroit!!! I came around a curve on I-75 and nearly hit a 🛋 couch/sofa - a big leather one - looked like something from someone's "theater room with reclining and cupholders, not some tiny thing!!!! 😡 I've driven some in Atlanta myself, and it reminds me a lot of detroit in terms of driving. Of course in Detroit, imagine driving part of the year in ice and snow too.😮
There should not be any prongs left out in the highway. It's a serious safety issue. This is clearly a booby trap. So by their logic, I can leave spikes in my front yard?
“We investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing”.
"I know that the law states explicitly that I'm not to pass the solid white lines but after careful consideration, I've concluded that it's not my fault that I crossed the white line"
In that case, people who suffer damages from these things should be able to write off the repairs on their taxes. If the government refuses to fix it upfront, we'll force them to pay it out the back.
All for something that could be fixed in a single day.
It will be a different story as soon as a city representative needs to pull over.@@ThouShaltConquer-t2c
The courts will not be as friendly to those idiots who permitted their installation in the first place.
Super original.
Hazards to ANY DRIVERS have NO BUSINESS on the road...EVER. ESPECIALLY...on purpose ... without WARNING. Are you INSANE?
Make em higher and try and get message on em to drivers to travel slow, go by foot or rail, our planet is jeopardized with pollution- we need to make a Noah's Ark base on the moon or mars. God is good, I pray no-one get hurt by the metal prongs and that there will be repentance across USA
Other cars are hazards. Guardrails are hazards. Jersey barriers are hazards. Intersections are hazards. Cell phones are hazards. Driving is hazardous. For decades, people have dealt with it just fine. Paying attention and actually having a modicum of skill mitigates most of that. Pretty clear that this guy was not doing that. The number of times I've driven where he was is zero - and that's over 38 years.
someone who changes lane AFTER the last second is a hazard too, its also not on the road, its between the road and off-ramp.
Learn how to drive and you can avoid this sort of damage
@@KRAMITDFROG That is also a thought crossing my mind. HOWEVER all objects you mention are VISIBLE and these obstacles basically INvisible at a place that is paved with tarmac which not really gets someone's guard up. THAT is the actual issue and it should be clear they need to GO or have a clear flag as warning. This is indeed irresponsible.
That is total BS! White stripes painted diagonally would have served the purpose without creating a dangerous situation. Additionally, as a motorcyclist, I can well imagine that hitting one of these on a bike could prove fatal if the downed rider slid into traffic. The gentleman with his damaged car needs to sue those responsible for failing to remove those prongs.
Or worse, a biker being knocked over by an inattentive car and sliding across one of those things at speed.
@@Nikko780 UGH!! Not a good visual.
The gentleman with the hurt auto... 😂😂😂
They look like supports for a sign that either never got installed or hasn't been replaced since getting removed.
@@JH-wd6dp THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE.
1. Those are dangerous and need to be removed.
2. Don't pull into the gore to check your phone even if lost. Get off any exit, pull into an available parking lot to reorient yourself.
3. If you find yourself just barely missing your exit, DO NOT cross the gore to exit regardless. We need those floppy poles along exits to keep people from exiting late. Get off the next exit and figure it out.
I agree not paying attention to the road and damaging your car is not the state fault. Pay attention and take the exit ramp park so you can focus on your phone and get your bearings.
Floppy poles are fine, something that can turn a multi thousand pounds steel vehicles into an uncontrollable ride along... not so fine.
I would rather that othe cars around me are able to keep all of their tires intact while sharing the road with them. This is so dangerous for other motorists that are doing nothing weong.
@@Jbig1430 I'd say the State DOT is at fault for an unwarranted hazard and should have to pay for all the damages. By the same token plowing into the gore and stopping there just for directions is reckless, And the driver should also be cited. In short: both parties should be held liable for different things.
Plenty or crappy drivers force normal people out of the roadway... It happens... Some moron cuts in front of me and slams on the brakes, and I gotta swerve to the side to avoid an accident, there better not be fuxxing IRON ROADBLOCKS hiding in the EMERGENCY LANE. Not everything is a "lost person", most of us have to take evasive maneuvers to avoid MORONS on the road.
@@Jbig1430 psychopathic take
If someone needs to swerve to avoid another car or some other kind of emergency, hitting that could be devastating. If it was a pole that you could easily see and know to avoid is one thing, that hidden obstacle is another.
could at least painted it florescent orange
It's not made to destroy the car, but stop it before it gets destroyed hitting the corner of the guardrail. The reason it's called a gore is because nothing but death or great harm awaits you there. You haven't asked the good questions yet! Why was he fuddling with his gps? Why didn't he pick an appropriate place to pull over safely, like the exit ramp he just passed? How fast would he have had to be going when he left the lane of travel and entered the gore to do such damage? His devastation seems a direct result of his poor judgment behind the wheel
@@ec5423that, I like
@@SLOCLMBR The metal prongs was there to hold construction signs, it was left behind and never taken out like it should have been. And as I said before, there can be emergency reasons someone might enter the gore area. This is negligence by the road crew and it is long past time for them to get the metal prongs out.
@@SLOCLMBRthat’s not true. It was named after VP Gore’s father who was instrumental in getting the highway system developed.
Removing those would take 15-20min for a guy/girl with an angle grinder…
20 minutes for a guy to do that with an an angle-grinder? I wonder if it wouldn't even take that long, especially since the bars are hollow. At least there are some good battery-powered ones these days.
Someone authorized and sent out there could probably set up some cones and stuff for safety in the middle of the day. But someone unauthorized, who might not have the right marking equipment to look official, might have to do this under the cover of darkness, in the middle of the night, and with just their headlights or something like that, and I hope they wouldn't get caught by a cop who thought they weren't supposed to be there doing that.
Either way, let's get it done!
@@HelloKittyFanMan I’m sure you or I could do it within minutes, but considering a government contractor let’s give them a week or two..
Btw i wouldnt imagine the cover of darkness helping much, what with all the sparks and such
@@HelloKittyFanMan Talk to Dekalb County and tell them that you're willing to take care of it at first light on a Sunday morning and see if they will help with the traffic. Like you said, its a 20 minute job.
@@savyor1839: Yeah, it might take them that long just to get around to it, but then once they're there, maybe just a few minutes. As for the cover of darkness, you might be right. Oh, and it's actually more contrast, so yeah. I could edit my old reply accordingly or leave that part there just for conversational effect. Although being in the middle of the night might have the advantage that there would be a lot fewer cops and/or karens who might report us to the cops. But let me just ask this: Do you think a vandalism charge would hold up in court, or do you think this would fall under some sort of "Good Samaritan" clause?
@@WilliamAkins-rw2hv: Yeah, good idea... for someone else to try. 1: I haven't lived in that area for over 3 decades. 2: Maybe I would try late night of another day since it's probably not a SUPER dire emergency for me to do on the Sabbath, but if it were super likely to get crashed into again any minute now, then yes, I might still do it on a Sunday. 3: I haven't spent money on an angle grinder; either a battery-powered one or a corded one and a generator. (End bulleted list.) Also, I didn't say it would be a 20-minute job; I bet it would take less time than that (but still long enough that I'd be afraid to be caught doing it without authorization, unless there's a good chance that a vandalism charge for this wouldn't stick).
Leaving those prongs exposed is the height of stupidity.
Atlanta city counsel says " Hold my beer ".
Play Stupid 🎮 games and you win Stupid 🎁💣prizes😮
@@RalphSmith-cj5heI get being a troll and being edgy BUT imagine if that was your mom who had a emergency and had to pull over because someone cut her off and hit one of those things and swerved back into traffic and got killed because she hit one of those things? I know everyone’s mad edgy now but you need places to pull over quickly in a emergency.
Wow if you do that in germany on the Autobahn you go to jail even without a accident
@@marcbeebee6969 and No 🚙 speed limits
They need to sue this is dangerous
1 hour with side angle grinder or plasma cutter to make both of them flush,
1 hour? Plasma cutter = 30 seconds. Angle grinder with cutoff wheel = 3 minutes
@@garys5175 government workers are involved lol
@@shattered115 LOL! 😆 Nice!!!!
@@shattered115This is at least a 5 man job. Oh wait, you need someone to direct traffic, too!
"We are looking into this" means "We are gonna wait until this goes away and we are gonna leave this there. I feel like they could go out and just saw these off in no time at all.
They do the math and until the cost of not doing something outweighs the repair costs nothing will be done... We had to wait for like 6 people to die for our new traffic light 😅
@@angiepangie989 It's called coffin engineering. I have a battery powered disc cutter if they need one.
@@angiepangie989Even if they were going by that rule, I can't imagine a world in which the cost of doing nothing is less than doing something in this case. Those objects in the road could easily cause a tire blowout and lead to someone's death as tire blowouts frequently do. If the city is held liable for this level of negligence in court they could loss alot of money. On the other hand it doesn't look like it would take much time or cost to cut off that exposed metal in the road. Not doing something is just plain dumb even if looking from only a financial cost
5 min fix with an angle grinder
It means "we are going to wait until someone dies and the family sues us for millions of dollars." No worries for them. No one gets fired. Taxpayers will pay it.
When someone is killed by those cement prongs, the city will have to pay a very-very large settlement, especially after being informed by News stations and citizens of the dangers they pose...
Good post. Slight correction though: City taxpayers will have to pay the damages.
Depends how the judge feels. If he's got friends with the city I don't see that happening.
Most city governments won't act until someone dies....or many people die.
My father worked for the city many years ago. He brought enlarged, graphic photos of guard rail victims to a city meeting and made those idiots look at the photos. They finally approved making the ends of guard rails go into the ground so they wouldn't go over car hoods and into the drivers when hit.
He tried for years to get approval for that, but they only approved it after several people died gruesome deaths. And he made them look at it.
That's state not city, state is responsible for highways not city's. The state will have to pay.
City has nothing to do with an interstate 🤦♂️ people just say stuff stg
So if you have car issues and pull off in that area, you will end up with more issues. If you drift a little or swerve because something impedes the lane, you now have a damaged vehicle and a disabled vehicle in the area they don’t want you driving. This was very well thought out.
Only the government could get away with creating such a hazard. If you did it, they'd destroy your life.
Imagine if Elon or Trump did something like that.
@@MegaLokopo Imagine if Elon or Trump had control over democrat controlled cities and was in charge of beautification?
@DayzedTransceiver Imagine if a competent, incorrupt human being was in charge of these democrat cities.
The hazard is you idiot drivers!
Try putting something on your property to protect a mailbox. If someone hits it and gets hurt, the state comes after you.
Sue them for damages, loss of work, and attorney fees. See how quickly the department of transportation will remove them.
I guess GA is a torte state that limits claims to 5,000 dollars for physical damage, i learned about it in Indiana when someone kept having their mailbox destroyed by a plow truck seemingly on purpose, and they had to fill out an online claim and wait for approval or denial, very unhappy homeowner.
If the prongs were to side of road would person also have legal claim? No. Don't drive outside the lanes of traffic, the govt doesn't guarantee 1 foot past the lane of traffic is safe too. Why not 2?
@@amyself6678 "Yes, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is responsible for shoulders, including their design, construction, and maintenance."
Shoulder use
The FHWA has released a guide for planning and designing part-time shoulder use as a traffic management strategy. The guide includes information on different types of shoulder use, such as bus-only use, static use, and dynamic use.
Shoulder safety
The FHWA encourages the use of pedestrian safety countermeasures, including paved shoulders and walkways. The FHWA also studies the use of shoulders as temporary travel lanes, including their safety, design, and operational characteristics.
.... The ugly fact is govts rarely can be sued successfully for valid reasons. For example if a road doesn't have a guard rail and an idiot drives off the side, the govt did so cuz the city officials weren't given enough money by voters/legislators so not all places got guardrails. The voters caused the unsafe situation!! You, me, as voters.... You can't blame the city/state officials for the voters being frugal heartless jerks who didn't care about safety much. Right???? Yes the logic says this, govt officials can only do limited amount based on money the voters allow. Maintenance costs too so not enough money means crap maintenance, voters caused this. . .. . . . Not all areas outside traffic lanes can be made safe. the overworked road officials may not have time and crews able to clear all shoulders and inside areas and they just focus on inside the lanes. If they don't have the crews to do all possible work, they just don't. Again, blame the voters. If life often it's a money issue, and voters don't want to spend money on perfectly maintained roads. Do you blame a city or state road official working 60 hours weeks to barely keep inside of lanes safe???? It's hard to admit there is no evil lazy villain, some bureaucrat, and govt can't magically make world safe for idiots who leave painted lane..... Each nation has different thinking. In Korea they fear drowning more, and they fence off the sea, in US we accept cant make the sea safe so if you drown then you're an idiot. Or should govt fence of the sea at cost of billions of bucks for the 200 idiots who dumbly slip and would drown?..
Nope
That is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Hopefully nobody gets killed !!!!!!!!!!!!
They already getting sued by that inocente man whose car stuffed damages
@@BenLin-l6einnocent man who doesn’t know how to drive and stay in the lanes lol it’s not complicated.
@@DillyDabblez You must be one dumb mf if that's your take. "Doesn't know how to drive" the dude pulled over to check his GPS because he was lost and hit them. That was covered in the video which you are apparently too stupid to comprehend?
This is how the law will view this: did this driver have to drive here. No. Therefore His Fault. Everything else only matters IF and only IF he had NO OTHER CHOICE caused by some other immediate actions of others, but to use the non travel lanes or was directed by a law officer to do so.
DillyDabblez - And what about the person who swerves to avoid an accident and hits one of those? Or someone trying to get their car out of traffic if it is having mechanical issues?
Victims should gather and open a classaction lawsuit.
You know how many times I've been forced off the road by some idiot trying to change lanes into me? Putting hazards like that just off the main roadway is *really* bad practice. No, you absolutely should not *deliberately* drive in the gore, but sometimes you *have to* in order to avoid a more serious hazard -- and these things make such emergency maneuvers *dangerous!* They definitely should be removed!
Go cry some more 😢
@@smyers820gm Correct. If it happens once, then bad things sometimes happen, but bad things can't happen twice. That's impossible.
@@smyers820gm Drive much? There's lots of bad/ignorant drivers out there and I've sometimes encountered 2 or three of them on the same day. You can't assume that the driver who is being forced to make emergency moves is the one at fault.
@@justcurious3525 only 350,000 miles in the past 5 years. Sooo 🤷♂️😂😂😂😂. No sir. If you encountered “2or3 on the same day” YOU are the problem. YOU are DEFINITELY doing something wrong and won’t take responsibility for whatever that is 🤷♂️
@@smyers820gm Sure. Everyone else on the road are the good drivers. Gotcha.
I don’t even want to imagine what would happen if a motorcyclist hits that.
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Straight go to go another world.
Then don't drive over the gore, if you miss your exit just take the next one and double back. It's illegal to drive over it in the first place.
Don't because you don't even ride. Worry about yourself. You cagers are a menace to us on the road.
Same as if a barrier was there ? So if you drive off the Damm road and hit something it's the cities fault?
@ 2:26 On that cement ledge is the post that is supposed to be attached it. It has the exact triangle cut groove. LOOK 👀 over her right shoulder when they room out.
Good eye!
It’s also a breakdown lane. If you have car trouble you need to pull off the main lanes and you’re instantly in an accident. Or you have to swerve because someone comes into your lane…🤬
Imagine hitting that on a motorcycle
I guess inazuma really does shine eternal
OMG?? Didn’t think of that.
How would you not see that
well I would have seen them so yeah
@@darrengaither3428 Who is a better hydro dps, pooalani or poovilette??
Mechanical issues, getting pulled over, medical emergency, directions, missing a turn... Just tons of reasons people might pull in their. Very dangerous.
Thats what probably happenned to the sign that goes there. Some idiot was about to miss the exit and took out the sign. Thats why only the bases are left.
All of those reasons are nonsense and would create a dangerous situation even without the cement bits.
"... missing a turn..." there it is
the real reason those prongs haven't been removed
*there
Missing a turn is not a reason ever.
Man, those prongs are nasty!
Imagine being knocked off a motorbike and sliding along the ground into these! 😮
Imagine staying in the lane not driving like an idiot
Wait when someone hits those metal stacks and they loose control of there car and they hit someone else there car hits another and flips over killing people . What a stupid city for even thinking of that .
Lose
I've made it a personal mission in life, to teach the world how to spell, 'LOSE'. *lose, lost, loss, loses, losses, losing and, loser. See how they all have one 'O'?
Agreed
Driving 100mph in the hammer lane and veering quickly to an off ramp last minute is considered reckless driving. Most likely video from road cameras and other witnesses can testify against that driver who caused the accident. 🫵😆🤣😂
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I'm now a "retired" motorcyclist, but I once had to veer out of my lane across a solid white line because a pickup was running me off the road. Had I hit something like one of those metal "deterrents" -- 😳 Bad for cars, even worse for motorcyles and riders.
In Long Beach Cal on PCH going by the Marina. Turning into the retail area they had a curb seperating the turn lane from the rest of traffic..... Never seen that before. It's painted white and ends where you are supposed to enter, but it appear to be just like every other left turn lane... without a curb. That curb caused about 20 bikes to crash, before the idiot officials finally removed it. It was like a bad joke that it was even there.....
@@JaspenKerplunk I saw something like that here in Washington state recently, and my first thought always goes to MC riders. I rode first as a passenger since 16, then started riding my own at 50 but medical issues made me give it up at 67. So my mind always thinks of motorcyclists when driving.
I also am aware of and courteous to big rigs on the road, because I also drove a log truck and wood chip truck and trailer. Gives one a different perspective.
Be quite cry baby
My first thoughts were of someone on a bike and hitting those. My lord get those things out of there!
Sue them - negligent hazard. What are they going to say when someone dies?
They will blame the driver.
@@jimchoate6912 as they should.
@@timg2973 No they shouldn't, but suing won't get anyone anywhere because gummint. You think it's funny if someone accidentally hits one of those and is injured or killed?
Major lawsuit.
It would be the drivers fault for not staying in their lane. I do think it should be removed but when driving you have to be in your lane, so the only one at fault would be the driver.
2:27 Looks like there's another one lying on the concrete wall that is ready to be installed. Clearly a safety hazard. Either build a wall or put crash barrels filled with sand/water to prevent people from crossing over last minute.
The authorities could very easily get someone out there with an angle grinder to remove those and fill in the holes. Ideally in the middle of the night when there's no traffic. It probably wouldn't even take 2 hours to complete. It's crazy they haven't done so in over a year.
5 trucks, 10 guys 8 hours overtime!
@@tlaf-yh2pxFor 14 minutes of work!
2 million bucks out of a local budget
Seems deliberately hazardous. Drivers aren’t perfect
nor should drivers even be called drivers more like 3 year olds in power weels
Drivers shouldn't expect 1 foot outside lanes of traffic is clear. Middle of road. Left of road. Stay in lane not beyond. This dude was breaking law, leaving lane, he should be in jail.
There are plenty of reasons why someone may need to drive over the gore, or if you're hydroplaning and you lose control, those would only make something worse, not help or really even prevent someone from driving over it because you wouldn't notice until you're right up on it. It's malicious. @@amyself6678
They need to try harder.
Should be 2 small holes instead so you can put the signs in the ground not something sticking out. Can you imagine how slow these people are out there working on streets. Unbelievable.
Engineering failure
Two small holes would not hold up a sign for very long.
@Cameraflyer- two two foot deep holes would hold up any poles easily. Look at those things theyre tube steel they coulda put them flush with the road but didnt probably because they dug the hole 3 inches too shallow and were like 🤷♂️🤷♀️
@@98f5 no it wouldn’t. There would be no way to secure the sign in the holes. A good gust of wind would pick it up and pull it out of the holes. You obviously know nothing about engineering.
Those sign mounts are sticking up like that as they're designed to break-away if someone hits the sign to minimize damage and also make it easier to replace the sign should it be knocked off the mounts... Which is all fine & dandy when the sign is actually mounted to the mounting brackets. Removing the sign but leaving the mounts was lazy
When the news reporter says "Alright y'all" you know it's serious
Is that supposed to be a witty comment?
It's a southern thing for sure 😅
😂😂😂😂😂
But, dude did.
Hit that.
And, got problems.
😂😂
2:37 Look behind her, sitting on the concrete barrier. A steel post (slightly bent) with the same mounting flange as the ones set into the roadway. Is that part of a sign that used to be mounted to those flanges set in the road? I wouldn't be surprised if it was. The likely scenario is that some other driver hit it, and it was never replaced, and the post was just left sitting on the barrier.
Straight up negligence. Highways are dynamic situations; sometimes it’s necessary to take evasive action to avoid erratic or dangerous drivers.
No, outside lane of traffic 2 feet is not job of govt the keep clear. This dude for zero reason decided to leave lane, he never explained, he just was careless. Must govt clear 1 foot on left and right for careless drivers???
@@amyself6678 From one side of guardrail to the other is POTENTIAL travel roadway (whether normal flow of traffic or during an unplanned event), NO OBSTACLE/ HAZARD SHOULD BE INTRODUCED into the roadway system. The very design of those Breakaway post bases present such a road hazard that they should have NEVER been approved for use since their purpose is to be potentially hit and breakaway during an accident - SHAME on the planning/ approval crew for allowing such a hazard to be introduced into the highway system
@@waaynneb1808 ... At end of day it comes down to money.. Everywhere is "potential" travel roadway. Shoulder. Dirt berm. Field. Govt with limited money and inspectors can't idiot proof all possible places to wrongly steer to.. It is illegal to cross white line, so only criminals will get hurt. . Telling Los Angeles or say Macon, Georgia that it must prepare road and fields around painted lane for idiots leaving road is costly. Macon, Georgia can either hire 10 more teachers to help 1000 kids or 10 more inspectors/contractors to help 100 idiots who intentionally break law and cross white line. Oh well, it's a fun issue to discuss it's so minor, gotta laugh. Happy Day!
@@amyself6678 If the government can afford to pave it, the government can afford to put the obstruction there, then the government can pay someone an hour or 2 of labor to break out a grinder and remove the obstruction when the construction is done.
@@amyself6678 Critical thinking is really a dying practice apparently... What would you tell someone on a motorcycle to do if a truck veers into their lane? Stay there & get taken out by the truck or take evasive action & hit one of those? The motorcycle did nothing wrong but ends up the victim either way with your logic. So it's pretty obvious not "only criminals will get hurt" isn't it?🤡
There are so many reasons those shouldn't be there. Just insane. High traffic - low visibility, emergency vehicles, emergency maneuvers to avoid accidents or sudden objects, snowfall, this list would go on forever. Those are absolutely not safe. If those are still there, the news team should go back out.
In an emergency you should be able to pull over without risking losing a few axles 😩
Aye you you gonna stop real quick though so there's that
@@thekidfromcleveland3944. Yes that's litterally what the water barrels are for. This is designed to be a CRASH SAFE ZONE. To SAVE LIVES.
But since cash for klunkers we've an deliberate hostile infrastructure
No one seems to remember - THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CRASH-SAFE ZONES TO ABSORB IMPACTS AND SAVE LIVES.
Corrvette, would be a total loss 📉
@@michaeltabanao8092 think about a Tesla on airbag suspension.... There goes your $80,000 BATTERY
Incompetence and nothing else.
Gives the saying "Stay in your lane" a little more meaning.
🤣🤣that was a good joke
They are not in the road, they are in what is called the 'gore'. It is illegal to drive in the gore. If you drive where you are not supposed to, you deserve damage to your car.
Let us be real. They won't fix it until it causes a death.
Now that’s the truth. Same here in England.
1:52 what is the purpose of those two dangerous looking things?
No motorbike should pass there.
even then, they will argue "no driver should dive there" so it wont be the citys(or whoevers) fault!
That actual sign post that attaches to the anchors was directly behind the reporter.
do you mean that metal pole that came from who knows where? those studs are a massive overkill for such a small pole. totally crappy design for a anchor. more like a trap
Excellent observation! Its base has that same triangular pattern with the bolt holes. The reporter said the construction was done in 2023? So that pole and its accompanying anchors have been just laying there for 9 months? That's some serious procrastination by the Georgia DOT. Newsflash to government employees---y'all are just reinforcing the stereotypes, you gotta do better!
@@dom11949 Anywhere? The base is shaped exactly like the anchors and it's sitting like 20' feet away from them on the side of the highway. I think it'd take the bet for where it came from.
Good eye.
Yes… I see the pole behind her.
One of the poles that was mounted to them is sitting on the concrete wall behind the reporter.
Yup ready to roll off into traffic 🤣 that road needs shut down and a walking visual inspection needs done asap or someone might get seriously hurt next from incompetent construction crew.... Wow Scary stuff out there....
If these wear temporary during construction, they now need to be removed
Wow, good eye, I think you are right
There's also a spare prong sitting on the barrier, right around 2:30. Oh, no, I see, that's the base of the pole or something.
Good eyes. I saw that too,,
That is some serious bad decision making by the highway department, won't take long til someone dies.
Correction: These are some kind of anchor for a specific sign.
Guys, I DON'T EVEN HAVE A CAR and this makes me mad.
False. These are the base for a sign. Should they be left…no.
@@loridave1962 Well they look like those 'one - way' spikes you see in parking lots sometimes.
However, I do want to say thanks to Loridave1962 for setting me straight; post edited and corrected.
Then don't make a comment.
My suggestion, stay on your sofa where you'll be safe! lol
@@coldblue9mm You're right.
Granted those things should not be there. Also don't make illegal lane changes.
As a first responder I often drove around and into “Gore points” while responding to emergencies.
DOT usally puts cones or delineators on them and never leave them unabated on a road surface.
Those things are dangerous things to be left wide open on a roadway. I really can’t believe that they do it and they have the nerve to justify it.
@@josebrown5961 I worked HI way construction and installed this exact signage.Inspectors would make sure they were coned and never left like that.chances are they were installed without a DOT inspector around for the process.
Cones are for temporary use, they should have reflective orange and white barrels in place.
@@josebrown5961 It simple basic law. It's against the law to cross a solid white line. If the driver crosses the solid white and veers into the right lane of highway traffic and hits a vehicle. Is that right?
@@craiglockwood981 Its simple basic common sense Million people passing by there in a day bruh. Many different reasons someone could hit those.
Looks like anti idiot, anti bmw a hole driver feature. So he gets damage trying to shoot a typical bmw move and cut off other " slow" drivers. Stay in your lane, don't cut people off and you keep your tires. He got lost in an area he commutes in? Really?
They shouldn't have left those in the roadway. If those are hit wrong there could be a massive accident. It could really cause harm to someone. What about a person traveling through from another state? A motorcyclist or something. It could cause a fatality. This is negligence and there is no reason these couldn't be flat to the road surface with caps on them. It's just the Department just wants to save money. Dude should be reimbursed.
Terrible safety issue but stopping there is also just as nuts.
Indeed. Everyday you see craziness on the 285 with drivers doing all kinds of madness
I hit one of those in Texas. Ripped an eight inch hole in my tire. I couldn't believe such a thing would be left in the road without any kind of warning.
Engineers aren't like they used to make them in 1963, pencil, calculator, drafting paper....or even a stellar plan on a bar napkin
There were two warnings there both ignored-- the SOLID WHITE LINE and the sets of red reflectors embedded in the pavement
@@HobbyOrganistthat's dumb
@@HobbyOrganistThat is not enough warning at a high rate of speed. Of course when someone get seriosly hurt or dies and faces a million lawsuit then they will do something. Well people should sue the HWY dept for dangering people lives.
Where and on what road?
Well that's bad design....
Imagine emergency vehicles needing to get around other cars and hitting these things.
They need little ramps on them. ❤
Like Mario cart
@@nathanielwilliams1677😂😂😂😂😂😂
Great idea maybe a driver can catch a little air than. It could be like Dukes of Hazard episode.
@@craiglockwood981 Knightrider turbo boost jump
@@hmartinspliff I love your comment.
Not only that’s expensive for drivers, but it’s also dangerous! We should all file complaints with the agency for installing those dangerous prongs.
Booby traps are illegal. Which makes them LIABLE for any damage.
You just got RULES LAWYERED! hell yeah it does . Ppl forget. THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CRASH-SAFE ZONES TO ABSORB IMPACTS AND SAVE LIVES.
He'll yeah. Spot on. THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CRASH-SAFE ZONES TO ABSORB IMPACTS AND SAVE LIVES.
@UgoLord Who's responsible for "all the damages that happened next?"
@@SlayerDork The contractor who failed to remove them when the road was done! That is who i would sue!
I can see the law-suit. A motorcyclist gets knocked off his/her bike, slides down the road, and accident that is otherwise survivable, and one of those things eviscerates them.
A lesson for people who do not know how to drive that are inpatient to go to next exit since they missed the one they wanted since they were not paying attention.
SPOT ON
Except thats not what happened here lmao
@@MrPacman64 So the driver was too incompetent to stay between the lines is what you're saying essentially?
@@ericstrother2036 so did you not watch the video either?
@@MrPacman64 I watched most of it. Didn't he say something to the effect of GPS told him to turn, etc etc? Why, what did I miss that can explain someone crossing the lines in the road that aren't meant to be crossed?
A popular restaurant chain put up a chain to stop traffic from circling. A driver hit the chain. The court ruled in favor of the driver stating that the blockade did not display enough visibility and found the restaurant liable for all damages Nuff said!
Jay Leno did that on his motorcycle
@@prooveditt4839 Jay hit a wire clothes line in a private parking lot, trying to take a short cut thru someone's back yard
@@kenwittlief255 ouch
My brother did that............there was a yellow steel cable and he was a kid riding his bike through a parking lot. Yep, even if a person should not be there, reasonable steps have to be made to alert them of a danger. The circumstances for people who encounter would be obstacles, are not all the same. One person might see it easily and avoid it while others may not see as well or have different environmental conditions or other tasks or objects to focus on.
I'm thinking more likely he was making a last second dive for the exit.
Exactly
Or... He was on his phone and swerved a bit 🤷♀️
Probably so, but those things still shouldn’t be on a roadway.
@@jojothetasmaniansassmonkey8866 they aren't anywhere that you are supposed to be driving.
Bad drivers never miss their exit.
So he hit the prong because he was lost and had to look down at his phone? If he didn't hit the prong he could have hit another vehicle doing damage to both vehicles, idiots.
Atlanta driver driving around Atlanta with GPS ?. What a LIAR . He wasnt paying attention (cell phone) and tried cutting across multiple lanes potentially causing an accident . An accident where he would have forced another driver into another and drove off scott free . I live in Los Angeles and see drivers doing it all the time .
nah, dawg, it's not him. it is you. YOU BLACK!
So he broke the law by driving on gore point, outside the lane of travel, was looking at and or touching GPS which is illegal in most states, then drove into area where you are not allowed to drive and it damaged his car due to his careless driving? Good.
I am so glad no one was hurt due to his careless driving. He should also be given citations as well.
He can also attend defensive driving classes to learn how to better drive and stay within his lane of travel. If you missed your exit, you don't get to duck off the roadway at the last minute. This is illegal for a reason.
It is not in the road way it is in an area you are NOT suppose to drive in
It seems, sadly, that the only way to get anything done is to tell the news.
Don't cut over at the last minute, pay attention when you drive. Skill issue
SPOT ON
So when someone gets killed will they "Look into it Quicker?" and if someone does get fatally harm because of the roadside Hazzard Who's fault will it be then? What will they say about you pulling over because emergency vehicles came behind you with lights on and you did what your supposed to do and move aside? Only to become a victim, will they say you weren't in the lane of travel?
Truly the ability of the Bureaucracy to be so asinine is amazing.
You shouldnt hide "saftey barriers". Its just a murder waiting to happen. This is like intentional deception and unaliving.
If you hit an improperly installed lamp post on the highway. And it was not the correct. Type for the speed of the road, no one says you weren't supposed to be off the road and hit the lamp post. They look into. What's it the right lamp post. Why would they say you're not supposed to be there now?
you hit our streetlight & were sending you a 10k bill.
Translate to English.
@JeroldMurphy Lampposts on the highway are designed to break away. Lampos on the street are more secure and will Not breakaway as easily. If you hit a lamp post, you're obviously in the wrong but. I know a situation where someone hit a solid lamp post on the side of the highway. And got seriously injured and they were able to Sue because the town or state or whoever installed the wrong lamppost. It should have broken away and done less damage. No one was questioning the fact that they were off the road where they didn't belong. But that's what people are questioning here. If someone hits it, they're obviously off the road but it still shouldn't be there to puncture people's tires and cause all kinds of damage
The problem with your argument is they were properly installed to prevent vehicles from veering over the solid white lines and back into highway traffic.
Government is never at fault. If you don't believe it, just ask them.
“Two giant white lines are telling you don’t drive in here, but dude did, and hit that and we’ve got problems”
News reporting in 2024 😂
Here in America, we have a word for that. It's called gross negligence.
Those are 2 words. 😂
I wonder why there is no law suit….
If they are posts that were left from a construction sign, and weren't removed, the contractor that installed them would be liable.
THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CRASH-SAFE ZONES TO ABSORB IMPACTS AND SAVE LIVES.
Actually i belive the City is ultimately resonating for checking if road conditions are clear. But they poetically just have them sign a form so yeah
The issue is that we have to sue. There should be a way we can bring these things up in a legally binding way without having to spend tons of money and prove direct harm to us indivisible rather than HARM TO THE EXPOSURE AS A WHOLE.
Gee they wanna play these games about systemic issues welp. I see a deliberate systemic attack on infrastructure. Look at how many barricades are billed wrong and impale cars.
Typical Atlanta driver…… don’t pay attention to road signs and probably trying to pass……. 🤦🏽♂️
Literally has nothing to do with these hazards being there.
Imagine trying to avoid an accident only to end up causing one due to these things...
There are no safe areas in today's world. 😢
there never WERE "safe areas"
Nothing safer than that void between your ears!
You sound like a brain dead worried grandma. Stay inside then
What part of drive inside the lines is too tough? This is like hitting a train, the tracks are visible. You know where not to go
Ever had to swerve out of the lane you're in because some idiot suddenly merged over on top of you? If not, then you clearly haven't driven anywhere in Atlanta in the last 30+ years.
Have you ever had to pull off the lines because of a car issue or other problem?
That’s a pretty weak point you brought to the table
What if you have to move over for an emergency vehicle coming up the lane behind you? What if there's debris on the road and you drift over to avoid it? What if it's raining at night and the visibility of the lines decreases a bit? These are all very realistic scenarios that could become exponentially more dangerous because of these prongs in the road. You can't create a hazard just to teach drivers a lesson to stay in their lane. There are many reasons why a driver might end up crossing those lines. Even if they cross the lines on purpose, would it be right to cause them to have an accident that ends up hurting or killing other drivers?
WHY were you driving outside your lane to begin with?!?!?
It’s like you’d hit nails and debris or rumble strips if you don’t stay within your lane; whose fault would that be again?!?!??
I’d hate to think what you were trying to do getting outside your lane!!!!
Nails cause slow flats rather than sudden blowouts, which are much more dangerous. Rumble strips are warnings and not something that would be anyone's fault for being there.
I would absolutely swerve in there to avoid an idiot who merges into my lane without looking that would have hit me. Think harder next time.
I guess there's a good reason why I never wanted to live in Georgia.
Crazy for them to leave something like that in the road way or near a road way that could cost someone their life
Good thing they disabled your vehicle and stopped you from pulling out in front of speeding traffic because you couldn't stand to take a wrong exit.
Thank you! People complain that driving like idiots and endangering others is their right. You miss the exit, take the next one. Plus I'm sure schmuck was playing on his phone and not paying attention.