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View Poll Results: Do you think flowers and crosses at the site of a car accident is distracting as you drive?
Yes 16 32.00%
No 34 68.00%
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Old 09-24-2007, 08:57 AM
 
Location: Heartland Florida
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Our highways are beginning to look like cemeteries. Drive carefully and responsibly then there won't be a need for roadside memorials.
This is why I like the "memorials". On the way to my area there's a big sign as you enter the 18 mile stretch " __ fatalities this year". All along the road you see the little markers of where people died. Some have crosses and flowers and teddy bears, some are already forgotten. Look and learn, or become the reason for another marker to be placed.
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Old 09-24-2007, 10:14 AM
 
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How are they more distracting than any other roadside sign? If anything, they are smaller and often escape notice.

Personally I think it is a good idea to permit them. I think it an appropriate, if grim, reminder to drive safely.
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Old 08-07-2008, 06:25 AM
 
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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How are they more distracting than any other roadside sign? If anything, they are smaller and often escape notice.

Personally I think it is a good idea to permit them. I think it an appropriate, if grim, reminder to drive safely.
I second that... My aunt died in a car wreck on the NJ Turnpike and from my understanding they don't offer a sign like they offer here in FL - My family would welcome it - at least, I know I would
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Old 08-07-2008, 01:32 PM
 
Location: where my heart is
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Not far from the entrance to our development, is a cross and flowers where a young man died in a crash. They even have his picture there. The picture is especially sad, looking at that happy smiling face, knowing the poor young man will never smile again.

It is a reminder to be very, very careful when you are driving.
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