Time for Vehicles Crashing into Poles to Be a Thing of the Past
Posted by HCN on Saturday, January 13, 2018
Sometime around 1982, was the incident of a cab driver in the Washington DC region working long hours, according to the information given, dozed off slightly for maybe a second or two at the most, then crashing the vehicle into a light pole. There was some kind of combustion, but whether that had any effect on the driver are details unbeknownst here. Speed was not excessive. He left behind a wife and children.
A timeline of every vehicle that crashed into a pole with some kind of electricity running through it over the past 50 years would be almost impossible to place in just one article.
In recent weeks, there have been two car accidents, contributing to the lead-up of this writing.
In the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area the last few days of December 2017, teens were driving, appeared to have swerved somehow, the car crashed into a utility pole, overturned, and was ablaze, fortunately, police rescued them, caught on camera.
In the Bronx area of New York, in what appears thus far to be in a series of events of a car crash, a car hit a pole, catching fire, on the Major Deegan Expressway early this morning. The driver in state of fatality.
Some poles can contribute to combustion upon collision because they have electric current running through them, others because of the density.
There is the realization that huge dimensions of the economy and infrastructure are entwined with roads, highways, and connected infrastructure devices.
Overhauling the system obviously could have costs.
However, phasing out an old, should be or could be obsolete combination of dangerous light poles, electricity poles, and other vertical structures within a couple of feet, sometimes literally within inches of roadways where cars are moving at speeds hovering up to around 80 mph, knocks on the door in era now where there are numerous technologies now that can accomplish the same job.
Fiber optics evolved, replacing older telephone systems, land-line phones market share drastically changed by the advent of the commonality of cellular phones, wireless systems are available for just about every computer peripheral that can be though of that exists today.
Where to place the proposition in the hands of on a broad reaching matter. For now, set here.
There probably have been an endless list of ideas of safer lighting, from kids chatting in vehicles, brainstorming in schools, to top scientists and engineers in the profession of road safety. The saying, we have got to do something holds. Maybe solar lit bounce quality resilient material, lights that are physically part of the road that can be driven on and do not cause combustion, powerful glow markers, reflections activated from the cars themselves, fewer lighting terminals that can reach further, and so forth.
There are buffering or crash padding devices in some areas, but either not enough or many poles are still in the vulnerability zone of a collision with vehicles.
Continuing with the prospect of all that needs to happen is a tire starts to go flat, a ball-joint or part of the undercarriage of the car goes bad suddenly, and mechanical failure that could cause a car to swerve, needless to say road conditions that cause less traction, rain, snow, ice, or less visibility, fog, lighting outages, and a car or cars could wind up being up in flames after striking a pole of some sort does not match the potential there is to to do something a step up from that.
Factual background:
Redistribution rules might impact placing pictures and reiterations of the sources of the two recent road pole collisions. The Milwaukee rescue story with a short video can be found online published the 27th and 28th of December 2017. There are several sites with content and pictures of the Major Deegan Expressway incident.
A timeline of every vehicle that crashed into a pole with some kind of electricity running through it over the past 50 years would be almost impossible to place in just one article.
In recent weeks, there have been two car accidents, contributing to the lead-up of this writing.
In the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area the last few days of December 2017, teens were driving, appeared to have swerved somehow, the car crashed into a utility pole, overturned, and was ablaze, fortunately, police rescued them, caught on camera.
In the Bronx area of New York, in what appears thus far to be in a series of events of a car crash, a car hit a pole, catching fire, on the Major Deegan Expressway early this morning. The driver in state of fatality.
Some poles can contribute to combustion upon collision because they have electric current running through them, others because of the density.
There is the realization that huge dimensions of the economy and infrastructure are entwined with roads, highways, and connected infrastructure devices.
Overhauling the system obviously could have costs.
However, phasing out an old, should be or could be obsolete combination of dangerous light poles, electricity poles, and other vertical structures within a couple of feet, sometimes literally within inches of roadways where cars are moving at speeds hovering up to around 80 mph, knocks on the door in era now where there are numerous technologies now that can accomplish the same job.
Fiber optics evolved, replacing older telephone systems, land-line phones market share drastically changed by the advent of the commonality of cellular phones, wireless systems are available for just about every computer peripheral that can be though of that exists today.
Where to place the proposition in the hands of on a broad reaching matter. For now, set here.
There probably have been an endless list of ideas of safer lighting, from kids chatting in vehicles, brainstorming in schools, to top scientists and engineers in the profession of road safety. The saying, we have got to do something holds. Maybe solar lit bounce quality resilient material, lights that are physically part of the road that can be driven on and do not cause combustion, powerful glow markers, reflections activated from the cars themselves, fewer lighting terminals that can reach further, and so forth.
There are buffering or crash padding devices in some areas, but either not enough or many poles are still in the vulnerability zone of a collision with vehicles.
Continuing with the prospect of all that needs to happen is a tire starts to go flat, a ball-joint or part of the undercarriage of the car goes bad suddenly, and mechanical failure that could cause a car to swerve, needless to say road conditions that cause less traction, rain, snow, ice, or less visibility, fog, lighting outages, and a car or cars could wind up being up in flames after striking a pole of some sort does not match the potential there is to to do something a step up from that.
Factual background:
Redistribution rules might impact placing pictures and reiterations of the sources of the two recent road pole collisions. The Milwaukee rescue story with a short video can be found online published the 27th and 28th of December 2017. There are several sites with content and pictures of the Major Deegan Expressway incident.
