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Originally Posted by 4X4
Make the walls 10' tall and get rid of rubberneckers while we're at it! It'll be like driving around in East Berlin!
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I know that you're half joking, but you actually make a good point. In Italy, for example, they have steel barriers on many of the the major highways that are quite high. While I'm sure that this helps keep larger vehicles from crossing over, it also prevents people in most average and smaller cars from seeing the traffic on the other side.
While I understand that this situation wasn't the result of rubbernecking, we all know how much a single police car on the opposite side of road can have an impact on traffic and can even cause rubbernecking-related accidents.
And specifically about this accident : I know that people need to take responsibility for their own driving, but a barrier of any height is there for the sole purpose of preventing someone's mistake from being serious. If people didn't screw up, we'd have a simple yellow line there.
Driver error is a major factor (as it usually is), but the snow build-up and/or barrier height cant be ignored.