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Here they mostly use white crosses with a name inscribed upon it. I live close to one of the "10 deadliest streteches of road in the US" and over the 20 to 30 miles it covers you cannot find an area that is not within sight of one or more of the crosses.

I don't take that road.
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Lusankya wrote:In South Australia, the government, I think, actually puts up permanent markers to show where a serious accident has taken place on a country. There are black sticks with a cross on them for each fatalaty, and red sticks with a line on them for each serious injury.
I've seen the signs that accompany them, saying 'X is a fatality and Y is an injury' but ironically never seen an actual fatality marker and only a handful of injury ones in all my years driving around Adelaide and the hills. The signs themselves are far more common than the markers.
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phongn wrote:
FSTargetDrone wrote:Really, the state puts them up? Or do you mean that is all that is allowed to be put up?
Oh, neither - it's just that those are by far the most common.
Actually, the state does put them up:
In order to increase public awareness of highway safety, it is the Florida Department of Transportation's (FDOT) policy to allow placement of memorial markers within the State Highway rights of way to:

(A) Memorialize people who have died as a result of a vehicle related crash.
(B) Remind motorists to protect human life by driving safely.

The cost for the construction, installation, maintenance and removal of the memorial marker will be borne by the FDOT. Memorial markers will be allowed to remain for a minimum of one (1) year.
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Kojiro wrote:
Lusankya wrote:In South Australia, the government, I think, actually puts up permanent markers to show where a serious accident has taken place on a country. There are black sticks with a cross on them for each fatalaty, and red sticks with a line on them for each serious injury.
I've seen the signs that accompany them, saying 'X is a fatality and Y is an injury' but ironically never seen an actual fatality marker and only a handful of injury ones in all my years driving around Adelaide and the hills. The signs themselves are far more common than the markers.
They're most common along the road to Victor Harbor. Then again, more people die along that road than anywhere else, so that would stand to reason.
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I can't think of any that I've seen, but there are signs on some German motorways with pictures of vultures saying "racers we are waiting".
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