One small city within the nice white north appears to have parking poles at its native Walmart that drivers can’t keep away from hitting. An area lately posted greater than 20 photographs of accidents the place drivers steered their automobiles right into a stationary parking pole. All resulted in injury and a few even brought about automobiles to flip over.
We’ve seen instances of inattentive drivers inflicting injury earlier than but it surely’s uncommon to see it occur repeatedly in the identical location. Usually, places, the place such accidents do happen frequently, are irregular in their very own approach. For instance, the notorious 11-foot-8 rail bridge is harmful as a result of it’s distinctive and drivers aren’t ready for its low clearance.
What makes this sequence of accidents unusual is that it’s at a Walmart parking zone, a spot the place the overwhelming majority of Individuals have been many occasions with out incident. Nonetheless, one car after one other appears to have smacked right into a pole on the Walmart Supercenter in Auburn, Maine.
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One way or the other it appears that evidently the overwhelming majority of those accidents are going down whereas drivers try to show left into the parking zone lane. Why that’s so stunning is that to start with, automobiles shouldn’t be on that aspect of the lane as soon as in it. So these drivers are turning far sooner than they need to be even when the pole wasn’t there.
Secondly, and no matter the place they need to be within the lane, the pole seems to be to be DIRECTLY of their line of sight as they make the left flip. It appears evident from the photographs that this isn’t only one pole both. At the least three totally different poles within the parking zone have come underneath assault. And all types of automobiles from vehicles to vans to SUVs have all been broken within the course of.
Many kudos to Redditor Frigginnathan who has clearly been chronicling the battles of this parking pole vs the world for fairly a while. We all know that as a result of, within the 20 photographs uploaded to the unique publish on Reddit, we see the pole has modified over time. Nevertheless, the poster says that he’s conscious of at the least 45 incidents!
For some time, it was pretty quick which could clarify why some people hit it. In fact, it was nonetheless vibrant yellow on the time so it shouldn’t be really easy. In different photographs, it’s a lot taller and neon inexperienced. In others, it’s tall, yellow, and has a metallic signal protruding of it. Regardless of all of those configurations, it appears as if automobiles can’t assist however attempt to take the poles out.