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.
There is a single family house in my home town that has the same problem though it’s been more like 3 crashes in 10 years. It’s located on a 3 way intersection with a traffic light. There’s a guardrail and a big yellow sign but cars keep crashing into it and the city refuses to buy the property. If i lived there I’d build a large ramp so cars would simply fly over the house
Jersey barriers.
Hescos would be cheaper and easier to put in place.