As part of our belief that hitting people with your cars is bad, Jalopnik maintains that hitting houses with your cars is also bad. People live in houses, and you should not hit them with your cars. Unfortunately for apartment residents in one Portland, Oregon building, someone didn’t get that memo and crashed into their house, starting a gas fire. As if that wasn’t bad enough, though, KGW News reports that neighbors estimate this is the 30th crash to occur on the property in the last 30 years.
Anyone owning land can put up bollards or barriers that are meant to stop vehicles.
Where bylaw and other authorities might start having kittens, however, is if you design said bollards to do more than just stop the vehicles… like, making them look like giant scythes sticking out of the ground, with reinforced blades that could split in half most any smaller vehicle that hits them.