Bollards save lives. End of story.
#WorldBollardAssociation

February 07, 2026 - 09:12 UTC

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Behold, the noble bollards, standing unflinchingly in the face of their own certain demise, sacrificing themselves to save others. The heavens weep.
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bollards stealing credit from the stairs. we need stairs everywhere
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FYI there's a DC bias on the non-audio audio of this clip which means that it makes speakers click every time it is started or stopped.
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I‘d run just in case the car came round and carried on fighting
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Press F for the noble bollards
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Bollards - they give life. To serve and protect.
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Not the plastic ones UK #highway authorities use!
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Bollards have their place, but calming and slowing the streets is even more important.
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Porque no los dos.
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Anyone help the driver pickup their phone?
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It took four bollards. I hope the replacements are upgrades.
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I thought it was intentional, to avoid killing drivers by stopping them instantaneously...
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Ppl mad at the 2 pedestrians for leaving instead of checking on the driver... I think their dog got loose (or injured).

There was a dog w/ them on leash, & after getting hit w/ debris, they lost the leash & dog.

Dog probably ran off scared, w/ dangerous traffic nearby, so they ran after their dog.
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I'd run after my dog too, rather than check on whoever almost killed them (& me). Plus, I'd assume the other ppl all around would be checking on the driver, meanwhile I would NOT assume anyone else nearby is concerned abt my dog except for me. So it's up to me to save my pup first, then I can check.
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They will not be driving away from this bollard encounter.
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Everybody standing around to see if the car will right itself, and carry on? W T F
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Indicated a bit late there.
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Never mind the Bollards...
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So the first reaction of every person there is to… do nothing. Humanity folks.
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I witnessed someone get knocked over. We were all in shock and just stood there. Then we helped. Probably the same here. People are processing what happened. It's scary seeing something like this happening in front of you.
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two injured pedestrians who move out of view on the right
People gather on the left and call for help
The video is only a few seconds long
I'm sure if you were there you would've instantly leapt into the smoking wreckage, sheared through the metal with your teeth and freed the driver
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Car drivers are the least of our concern.
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21 seconds after impact and only then someone rushes out of a door towards the car. woof.
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Oh no they waited almost thirty seconds before checking on the person that almost killed them.

Carbrain is a horrible disease
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Could care less about them.
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They kinda worked, but better bollards wouldn't have gone amiss.

It looks like they managed to destroy them, rather than stopped the car at the first bollard.
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They might have been designed to stop cars from backing in or parking in front of building doors. Probably wasn't meant to take a high speed hit. But because there was enough of them it stopped the car anyway
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Proof that concrete filled metal is far superior to concrete/stone alone. One metal one would have stopped the car cold.
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There was enough energy to flip the car. I think it would have taken at least two, regardless of materials; likely would have ridden up and over the first.
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Last year:

bsky.app/profile/torrleonard.bsky.social/post/3lfm5cr5gdk2q
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Saved 2 pedestrians + killed 1 driver = 1 life saved
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Guess fuck that driver, huh. No one really?
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Guess the couple were in shock or had no first aid training .
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looking at the way it was going right for them they might've been worried the driver was actually out to get them!
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JFC
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Not the first three.
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That’s why you need at least four
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Never Mind The Bollards
Here's The Six Penalty Points
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Need the licence permanently taken from them.
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I see 4 lives lost. Their sacrifice will not be forgotten. May they rest in peace.
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True. Right outside my own front door. The driver was busy on his phone.
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Really. That’s such a surprise.
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Good thing he turned on the blinker there.
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Hey @bouldermattb.bsky.social can we get more bollards in #Boulder? Bloody brilliant!!

#FuckCars
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The cyclist was to blame
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A "hero" bollard
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Low cost, enduring protection for pedestrians & transit users from deadly motorists.
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Close one, though, for those pedestrians!
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Car-free cities even better...
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Wow there’s a World Bollard Association - nice
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First three did fuck all though. Just install the fourth one next time
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They absorbed energy... essential work.
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Bloody cyclists, eh?
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I remember the first time I installed one in the sort of restoration part of a project and saw just how deep they were buried 😆

Digging the holes with the auger sucked because we had huge stone buried there.
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Everyone's so mad no one is helping the driver that almost killed two pedestrians. At least one of them looks like they may have been hit by shrapnel. Let the people go home and change their underpants, geeeeez!
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Damn, the pedestrians didn't thank the car that stopped in front of them.
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It's a good thing that fourth bollard was there. It needed the first three to slow the car down.
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They weren't PAS68 compliant! 😬
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Hopefully air bags do too.
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Not in California, where bollards are only pretend, lightweight hollow plastic things.
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They gave their lives so that others may live. 🫡
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People who flee, on the other hand ..
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Who checked in on the people on the crashed vehicle? 🫢
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You aren't obliged to check on some asshole who almost killed you.
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You’re judging people who almost got killed for having a flight response to a giant metal behemoth speeding towards them?
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Why should they give a shit about the probably drunk driver who nearly killed them?
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car drivers are crazy AF
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Looks like the car went through the first three bollards like they were matchsticks. Was it really the fourth bollard that flipped the car over? Looks to me like it got flipped by the contour of the pavement.
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Well, look at everyone rushing to help.
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Yeah, those shit scared peds need helping.
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I hope they replaced with steel ones. Flying concrete shrapnel not so good. That said, well done well’ards.
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Don't say that to public health, they'll demand you run a randomized controlled trial because you can't assume the laws of physics work the same everywhere!

Also because nothing is allowed to count until a senior MD can take credit for it.

(I *really* wish I was joking about both of those...)

🧵:
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meanwhile, in Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-07/woman-dies-after-car-crashes-into-house-in-rivervale/106317240
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Hope the bollards haven't got all the King's horses and all the Kings men on the case. Speedy recovery gallant protectors
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What was different about that 4th bollard??
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maybe it just hit the motor instead of the crumple zone sheet metal and plastic
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Had help from the first 3?
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Love the way everyone rushes to check on the driver. 😳
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Ikr. They don't give a damn lol
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? The yellow car has their hazards on obviously stopping to check, you see the light shining on the car. As for the pedestrians there, I dunno man, face your own death like that and see how rationally you're thinking in the 15 seconds immediately after.
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The bollards checked on him. They save lives.
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They were too busy checking their phones, too
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"We're so lucky to be alive. Let's go honey, our ice cream is melting."
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What worries me more is that no one checked on the obviously upset bollards.
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Would care less about them personally... I'd first be concerned for the welfare of others.
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The driver can call for help themselves with the phone they were looking at instead of the road
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Car might explode, keep yourself safe!

Driver still busy playing snake.
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Seriously! No one even slowed down much less stopped!
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Great team effort
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did anyone help the driver?
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Oh yeah, helped them finish snake game.
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Some drivers should be off the road permanently.
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Some drivers are struck by sudden illness, like a stroke, seizure or loss of consciousness. There's little that can be done to prevent that.
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Oh my God What just happened 😨
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Bollard teamwork is the way.
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Also interesting: The couple that was saved run away instead of checking on the driver.
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(1) the driver would have killed them and they got hit by debris and could have been injured

(2) their dog got away so they probably went after the dog, who did not almost kill them

(3) you don’t know that they didn’t call paramedics

(4) car brain!
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In shock we all do wrong sometimes.
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I hurt my cruciate ligament and needed to wait for my ride in Weymouth - and there was a row of friendly, bottom-level bollards to rest on! Thank you, WBA.
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Sorry, I can't do alt text and no idea why....
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But, you know, we all agree it was the cyclist’s fault, right?
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And fuck up cars and their idiot drivers...this should also be noted.
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Protect People
Kill Cars
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Some fallen warriors by the looks of it sadly 🫡
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“Thank for your service”
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No help from anybody? 🤔
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Guy in red jacket <20s after crash; I think the 2 pedestrians can be allowed a moment to recover before rushing to help ;)
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They are the least of our concern.
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Yeah, help the driver finish snake game
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Blocker save! 🏒
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Check on the driver?! Nah, fuck that guy, we out.
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Are you talking about the two people he almost ran over and got sprayed with with debris from the impact of his car against the safety devices just to be clear?
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Driverless car???
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This is why I take a bollard with me everywhere I go. Crowded House wrote a song about me.
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God bless those bollards - they made the ulitmate sacrifice in their line of duty. We will remember them.
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And hopefully, replace them with sturdier ones.
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#PillarsofSociety
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Pour one out for our 4 bollard homies who fought the good fight in the war against automobiles.
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That couple was gone
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Oh no, the one person dropped their package and left them on the stairs!
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It’s a strong, simple statement. The resonance is in its finality. There’s no room for argument, which makes the idea itself a kind of bollard.
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