Safety sign or city hazard

The Advertiser: Safety sign or city hazard:

"CRASH markers should be erected on metropolitan roadsides, kerbs, signs or Stobie poles to help reduce the road toll, Adelaide councils say."

I used to think it was a good idea to mark the crash sites but now I am not so sure. Some of them have got bigger and more ostentatious and have been the centre of attention for those who crashed. Now, I see them as being something that rewards the victims' friends and creates a morbid attention to the site. It has become a kind of a hero thing and so the message of people dying because they crashed there is being lost. I think it's because we have too many of them now. People have been crashing into trees, houses, ditches, kerbing, barriers with monotonous regularity. The messages that speed kills and running off the road kills are trickling through. I now believe people are oblivious to these markers because they simply do not care. They drive how they want and when they want and have absolutely no regard whatsoever for themselves and others. Yes, I am cross. Crash markers only work on people with a conscience and a sense pf propriety. If they are talking on mobiles and driving at whatever speed they wish, the law and markers are not relevant to them.