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| Driving to work today, I looked on the right-hand side of the road, and if I would veer a few feet, less than 1 meter, I could easily hit any number of inanimate objects: trees, light-poles, buildings, etc. Altho the support wall that the bus hit was a major reason for the massive impact, I wouldn't really point the finger at it and blame the people who designed or built it.
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But it's still always worth investigating to see if things can be improved through design.
Avoiding one accident like this would make it all worthwhile.
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| I think when tragedies like this happen, people are looking for answers, and to find a way from preventing the tragedy from happening again. I don't know if that really applies in this case. In this case it looks like a "perfect storm" of incidences: the driver suddenly veering, and the wall right there. If the driver would have veered a few feet the other way to the left, it could have hit oncoming traffic.
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Not in this tunnel - the two directions are in separate tunnels.
An example of why a change in design can be a good idea.