flowers on the roadside?

Question

Does anybody think that mourners,should be stopped from putting flowers and memorials on the roadside, where they have lost loved ones. Apparently its a distraction.. Personally I dont think they should be stopped

Answer 1

let them moarn there lost , besides seeing the crosses remind people to drive safely

Answer 2

I seem to recall a local council (can't remember which one) wanting to ban this practice, which we seem to have copied from the Americans.

The argument was that it could cause a distraction.

This is just another example of self-important mindless morons wanting to impose their ill-considered lunatic ideas on the rest of us.

I assume that these cretins consider that large signs on the roadside proclaiming the number of casualities on a stretch of road over a given period are NOT a 'distraction'?

A bunch of flowers is a bunch of flowers - a sign demands attention and time to read it.

Answer 3

I'm tossed between the need for the family to feel like they're helping others by putting up a reminder that they lost a loved one and it being a distraction. I say if that's what the family needs to do for closure then they should be able to put up a memorial but there also needs to be limits on what they can put up and where they can put it.

Answer 4

Sadly five young lads were killed in a car not far from my home, and every year people lay loads of flowers there but it is right outside of somebodies house, and the flowers are place up against the wall personally would not like the reminder of such a tragedy permanantely outside my door.

Sorry if this seems selfish, but it wont bring them back will it?

Answer 5

I tend to think that mourning a lost loved one should be a private thing,its a bit tacky leaving flowers along the roadside.Its better to leave them at their gravesite however I do understand people do get cremated and havent got a resting place as their ashes have been scattered. So I guess thats why some people leave flowers at the point of where a person has died.

Answer 6

in moderation is wud b a disgrace to stop them.

there was an interesting story of a bunch of school kids, bout 5-7yr olds, where with their teacher they wanted to do sumting bout d road deaths + came up with d idea of putting a cross every few yards along a stretch of road, 1 for each death.
they cancelled it and went for doing in in a field cos it wud hav bn a distration

Answer 7

They do it everywhere though. When in spain, I wondered what the little boxes with the candles and god pictures were all about and it's where people have died. It's really sad, but the roads are dangerous places and people die. I think it should be allowed, although not excessive.

Answer 8

I'm not sure. But I do know that they look absolutely horrible a few days later when they are dying and black with exhaust fumes. Not the sort of memorial I'd want for a loved one of mine.

Answer 9

Ok for friends and family (though
they maybe pinched or run over and ruined) But what gets me is when all and sundry leave flowers when they didn't even know the person who died.

Answer 10

Absolutely not.
Give the families a break for god's sake.