#crashes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #crashes, aggregated by home.social.
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Biodiversity under the wheels
Koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats and other wildlife are forced to dwell in fragmented spaces having to cross many roads to go about their life. Mobility design is primarily for combustion machines to fly along their supply chains. The mobility needs of the un-motorised is not taken care of with the existing infrastructure.
"Tens of thousands of collisions with animals are recorded each year across Australia and the number appears to be rising. According to NRMA Insurance claims data, there was a 21% rise in animal collision claims from 2024-2025."
"Many large animals, including kangaroos, are most active at dusk and night, often moving to feed along roadside vegetation. Insurance data shows collisions are concentrated on regional and rural roads, where higher speeds, limited lighting and greater exposure to wildlife increase risk." >>
https://theconversation.com/crashes-involving-animals-spike-in-winter-heres-how-to-avoid-them-281531
#biodiversity #wildlife #MobilityDesign #vehicles #roads #speed #RoadTrauma #kangaroos #wallabies #koalas #wombats #birds #crashes -
https://www.europesays.com/videos/16764/ Dunmurry police station bomb ‘attack on us all,’ says Chief Constable | UTV News #Alliance #attack #autism #Belfast #bomb #car #crashes #deaths #Dunmurry #DUP #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #MourneMountains #Newcastle #news #NorthernIreland #parents #police #politics #PSNI #reviewer #road #SAFETY #SDLP #SinnFéin #station #Stormont #UTV #UUP #wildfires
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Daylight saving and circadian rhythms and killing wildlife on the roads
Crashing into the 'zone of wildlife'“[With] daylight saving, we start shifting our cars and our daily routine more into the zone of animals, their sunset, sunrise period … suddenly there are cars when all the dusk choruses are happening."
"Species that would be of obvious concern would be kangaroos and wallabies, that are often quite active both in the morning and in the afternoon around dusk, so any increased traffic around the time when they’re most active can create potential issues with road accidents,” Deakin University wildlife ecology and conservation professor Euan Ritchie says."
"Cars – with their lights and noise, and the danger they pose – can affect insects, birds and wildlife." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/04/how-does-daylight-saving-time-affect-animals-australia-wildlife
#biodiversity #wildlife #cars #roads #DST #DaylightSaving #crashes #LightPollution #ArtificialLight #NoisePollution #RoadTrauma -
PFAS contamination sites and dead platypus
Mapping "hazardous concentrations" of PFAS plumes on NSW waterwaysA study "found alarmingly high levels of PFOS in the livers of eight dead platypuses, collected from waterways across NSW."
"…Due to the shape of the valley, groundwater from beneath the landfill "ultimately flows towards the Ourimbah Creek catchment”.
"When you look at some of the research that's coming through, clearly it's raw water, our waterways, that we also need to be concerned about because we know PFAS gets into wildlife."
"The research that I've seen, not just in platypus, but in some other species, is really frightening. If that isn't enough to get the government to act on looking at PFAS in waterways, not just drinking water, then I don't know what is."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-07/pfas-contamination-investigation-ourimbah-creek-catchment-nsw/106037472"Scientists...have discovered PFOS in the livers of eight deceased platypuses collected from numerous eastern NSW rivers, from the north coast in Bellingen to the alps of Jindabyne." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-20/australia-forever-chemicals-pfas-drinking-water-platypus/104244072#rivers #water #pollution #biodiversity #wildlife #platypus #wetlands #NSW #roads #crashes #spills #landfill #runoff #petrol #PFAS #PFOS #FirefightingFoam #OurimbahCreek #Bellingen #governance
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Tolerating the crushing of pedestrians, cyclists and wildlife with bull bars
" Bull bars are rigid or semi-rigid metal or composite frames mounted to the front of a vehicle.
Pedestrian deaths just reached an 18-year high. Bull bars are part of the problem
In 2025, 197 pedestrians were killed on Australian roads, the highest number since 2007. Almost every state recorded a noticeable spike in pedestrian deaths compared to last year.Cyclist deaths also climbed to 49, up 32% from last year – the highest since 2013.
One key reason appears to be the growing size and weight of vehicles, which can increase the risk of death and injury.Evidence shows bull bars can significantly increase the severity of pedestrian injuries, even in low-speed urban crashes.
Bull bars are not banned in Australian cities. Instead, they are regulated through design standards that are weaker than European pedestrian-protection rules. "
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https://theconversation.com/pedestrian-deaths-just-reached-an-18-year-high-bull-bars-are-part-of-the-problem-273362
#cars #SUVs #crashes #MobilityDesign #regulation #speeding #pedestrians #cyclists #wildlife #RoadTrauma #Bullbars #RooBars #VehicleRamming #HostileVehicleMitigation -
https://www.fogolf.com/1122999/man-dies-while-crossing-us-92-in-golf-cart-near-lakeland/ Man dies while crossing US 92 in golf cart near Lakeland #Accidents #AccidentsU0026Disasters #and #CAR #CarAccidentsAndCrashes #Carts #County #Crashes #Death #DeathU0026Tragedy #deaths #DISASTERS #fl #Golf #GolfCarts #GolfNews #Lakeland #Local #LocalNews #Motor #MotorVehicleDeaths #Negative #news #Office #overall #OverallNegative #Polk #PolkCounty #PolkCountySheriff'sOffice #Sheriff's #tragedy #u0026 #VEHICLE
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A koala unfriendly infrastructure
"The sixth koala killed between Bonville and Repton."
No virtual fencing, no AI sensors, no speed restrictions
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https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/koala-highway-death-raises-questions-over-wait-for-signage"Signs are litter on a stick
Signs are white noise motorists ignore
Signs are a cheap option"
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet with Ben Goldfarb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVkw0fOslck
#koalas #wildlife #Biodiversity #conservation #roads #highways #NegativeExternalities #Infrastructure #cars #vehicles #crashes #ExtinctionCrisis #RoadEcology #RoadKill #signage #fencing #MidNorthCoast #ThegreatkoalaNationalPark #Bellingen #Repton #Bonville #Coffs #WildlifeSafety
Koala signage (litter on a stick) erected and then vandalised by motorists. Bellingen/ Gleniffer -
Animal friendly infrastructure - Road ecology
"Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. , the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill. "
Ben Goldfarb, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet >>
https://www.bengoldfarb.com/crossingsCrossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet with Ben Goldfarb >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVkw0fOslck
#biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #roads #highways #NegativeExternalities #Infrastructure #cars #vehicles #crashes #liability #tyres #RoadEcology #RoadKill #signage #fencing #weeds #pollution #LoggingImpacts #mobility #animals #MigratorySpecies #access #barriers #FreewayWalls #crossings #ExtinctionCrisis -
Why #GIMP #AppImage #crashes on #Linux then trying to export / #save files to #tmpfs? A #bug ?
/tmp/.mount_GIMP-3ChpMMA/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gimp/3.0/plug-ins/script-fu/script-fu: fatal error: GIMP crashed (script-fu:34154): LibGimp-WARNING **: 13:15:26.695: script-fu: gimp_flush(): error: Broken pipe fish: Job 1, 'GIMP-3.0.4-x86_64.AppImage --ve…' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)After some testing, and getting crazy about it, I debugged moar. It seems that the problem is a .json file in the tmpfs dir, it seems to crash GIMP. There’s clearly something very wrong.
Just for fun I created this file: gimp-denial-of-service-attack.json
Feel free to use that to troll colleagues. Place it is some directory they’re likely going to use with GIMP, just for lulz. - Don’t ask me, why it crashes GIMP. #json #gimp #crash
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Thursday, August 21, 2025
5 days of diplomacy, 5 days of deadly Russian attacks on Ukraine — Russia is turning occupied Ukraine into a giant military base — Today’s drone strike sparks blaze at oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov Oblast — [vlog/video] The ground drone revolution in Ukraine (Robots are Here) … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-21-2025/
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The follow-up, this time, city driving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJnNbm-jUI #carsafety #adas #selfdriving #crashes
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This video of self-driving cars tests by Chinese media outlet Dongchedi is truly an eye opener: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xumyEf-WRI
These systems are not ready for real traffic. It's 90 minutes with subtitles, but worth it. #carsafety #adas #selfdriving #crashes -
Drink-driving mother crashes at 100km/h, injures two others, but half bottle of wine stays in console https://www.diningandcooking.com/2184064/drink-driving-mother-crashes-at-100km-h-injures-two-others-but-half-bottle-of-wine-stays-in-console/ #100kmh #after #at #booster #bottle #but #centre #console #Crashes #daughter #drinkdriving #Half #halfdrunk #holly #in #injures #into #mother #napier #NewZealand #NewZealandWine #Of #others #pattison #putting #seat #stays #strapping #two #Wine #WineFromNewZealand #WineOfNewZealand
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Drink-driving mother crashes at 100km/h, injures two others, but half bottle of wine stays in console https://www.diningandcooking.com/2184064/drink-driving-mother-crashes-at-100km-h-injures-two-others-but-half-bottle-of-wine-stays-in-console/ #100kmh #after #at #booster #bottle #but #centre #console #Crashes #daughter #drinkdriving #Half #halfdrunk #holly #in #injures #into #mother #napier #NewZealand #NewZealandWine #Of #others #pattison #putting #seat #stays #strapping #two #Wine #WineFromNewZealand #WineOfNewZealand
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Drink-driving mother crashes at 100km/h, injures two others, but half bottle of wine stays in console https://www.diningandcooking.com/2184064/drink-driving-mother-crashes-at-100km-h-injures-two-others-but-half-bottle-of-wine-stays-in-console/ #100kmh #after #at #booster #bottle #but #centre #console #Crashes #daughter #drinkdriving #Half #halfdrunk #holly #in #injures #into #mother #napier #NewZealand #NewZealandWine #Of #others #pattison #putting #seat #stays #strapping #two #Wine #WineFromNewZealand #WineOfNewZealand
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Monday, July 7, 2025
China may ask Russia to attack NATO if Taiwan is invaded — Drones reportedly attack Russia’s Black Sea fleet — Russian airports cancel nearly 300 flights amid drone attacks on Russia — German lawmakers call on Merz to increase aid to Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/monday-july-7-2025/
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Saturday, June 14, 2025
Ukrainian MiG-29 strikes Russian drone hub, ammo depot in Zaporizhzhia direction, releases video — Without a hint of irony, Putin offers condolences for ‘civilian casualties’ in Iran, condemns Israel’s ‘violations’ of UN Charter — Russia preparing strategic reserves for conflicts beyond Ukraine — Ukraine’s Sapsan ballistic missile to enter serial production following successful combat testing … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/saturday-june-14-2025/
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Road Death: The proliferation of larger vehicles ( SUVs or LTVs ) threatens to undermine all the road safety
“Around the world, we have seen a huge increase in the sale of ever-larger cars...Previous research has found that this trend is substantially undermining progress towards net zero goals."
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/supersize-suv-cars-fatal-injury-cyclists-pedestrians-research-b1224908.html
#cars #SUV #LTV #consumer #CarBloat #CarSpreading #RoadDeath #crashes #pedestrians #cyclists #children #ZeroRoadDeaths #violence #MobilityDesign -
Road toll or systemic risk?
More than 11,000 people have been killed on Australian roads in the past 10 years. The number is expected to rise as the holiday season approaches.>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/national-road-toll-nsw-qld-vic-biggest-increases/104641234The 'integral accident': "When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress." – Paul Virillio
https://gregswan.net/2018/11/30/french-cultural-theorist-paul-virillio-on-the-integral-accident/
#MobilityDesign #roads #RoadToll #crashes #CarDependency #PublicTransport #cars #vehicles #SystemicRisk #SacrificeZone #FossilFuels #speed -
Urban sprawl is destroying wildlife habitats
The sub-urban package of houses, cars, roads and introduced pets drives Australian native animals out of their habitat. Their homes become eliminated or fragmented by roads which become extinction zones for wildlife. Unleashed cats and dogs maul the remaining homeless survivors.
The absolute priority is given to fossil fuel vehicles to fly from a to b at maximum speed. This entails a mobility design that declares any living body an obstacle on 'their path'. Some of the maimed crash survivors get scraped off the roads by volunteers. In some places wildlife admissions at the vet hospital had risen by 400 per cent in the last decade. It's a mono-cultural housing and infrastructure design where bio-diversity is non-existent in minds and policies.
"More wildlife was being forced into urban areas, leading to collisions with vehicles, attacks by domestic animals, and entanglements in fruit netting. Experts say behavioural changes need to be made and urban sprawl contained to reduce the harm to wildlife."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-24/werribee-zoo-injured-wildlife-urban-sprawl-melb-geelong/104614358
#sprawl #ecocide #cars #crashes #roads #BiodiversityCrisis #wildlife #coexist #extinction #SacrificeZone #harm #MobilityDesign #RescueService #volunteers #SettlerSociety #biodiversity -
US agency says Tesla's public statements imply tt its #vehicles can drive themselves. They can't
" #NHTSA is asking #Tesla to “revisit its comm'ns”.. 4 crashes involving #FullSelfDriving when Teslas encountered sun glare, fog & airborne dust.. Arizona #pedestrian was #killed in one of e #crashes.. #Musk 💩spent ~$119m to get #Trump #elected & Trump has spoken against #government #regulations.. #Autosafety advocates fear tt investigations into Tesla cld derail" #FakeIt #EVs
https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/us-agency-says-tesla-s-public-statements-imply-19901015.php -
CFMOTO Powersports are recalling 2024 CFORCE 800 Touring and 2024 CFORCE 1000 Touring All-Terrain Vehicles have defective throttle levers. #cfmoto #atvs #allterrainvehicles #throttle #crashes #injuries #recall
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Akshully, it wasn't that unexpected. It's perfectly normal for applications to crash when I put my laptop to sleep in the evening and return to work in the morning.
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The single worst #medical job I ever had involved no hands-on patient care at all.
Now, I experienced some very bad days as a #military #medic, and more as a #civilian #EMT. I worked on #ambulances, in #emergency #departments, and in safety net #clinics. I saw suffering on a scale I had never even imagined before. Of course I did my best to relieve that suffering—both because it was my job, and because I’m a decent human being—but a lot of the time I just couldn’t, and neither could anyone else. I celebrated my successes and mourned my failures. The memory of the former sustains me to this day, but the accumulation of the latter did lasting damage to the inside of my head. Practically anyone who’s ever been in the biz can say the same.
But all the #gunshots and car #crashes and #overdoses and #child #abuse cases and long, steady descents into the grave, over the course of years, didn’t burn me out like two months in a #cardiology practice.
You may wonder why. Okay, cardiology patients are generally pretty sick: you don’t get assigned a #cardiologist, rather than having your primary care provider take care of it, unless your #heart’s in bad shape. Even so, could it really be worse than all the above? After all, cardiology offices tend to be clean, well-lit, organized places. Patients have appointments. Fairly routine care, and if there’s really bad news, it’s the #physicians who have to give it—which is not the situation in #emergency #medicine, let me tell you.
Well, it did, and here’s the reason. Like I said, I wasn’t taking care of patients directly. My interaction with them was brief, in exam rooms after they’d already been checked in and seen by their providers, and I never touched them. It was all paperwork.
My job was to be their advocate with the #insurance companies. I did most of my work in an office, with a comfy chair and a phone and a coffee cup close at hand. The job was actually supposed to be an #RN position, but I impressed them enough at the interview to get it, and I got paid more for it than any other medical job I had before or since.
I read their #charts and #prescriptions, studied insurance claims, and—now we come to the crux of it—looked over the reasons those claims were denied. Sometimes very elaborate reasons, with lengthy justifications. Other times the feedback from the insurance companies was basically just “NO.”
And then I called those companies, and worked my way up through the phone tree until I got someone on the line with some actual decision-making authority, and explained to them in great detail why they should approve a particular medication or procedure that would keep our patients from dying.
I succeeded … maybe a quarter of the time? Probably less. Occasionally the failures weren’t complete: I couldn’t get them to approve whatever the cardiologist had recommended, but I could at least squeeze something out of them. Something that would keep our patients, the people entrusting us with their lives, going for a little while longer. Some sliver of hope for the patients and their families. Some human connection that reminded the people on the other end of the line that their job wasn’t actually to condemn people to death, at least not on paper.
Usually not. But often enough to keep me there for a little while. The nightmares stayed under control as long as I had a bottle waiting for me when I got home. Now that I think about it, that may have been when my drinking problem got serious, although it would take several more years to fully manifest. Good thing it wasn’t a #hepatology practice, I guess.
A friend’s post dredged this memory up. I was going to leave it as a comment there, but I didn’t want to make it all about me. They have enough of their own problems. Just know, if you’re fighting this particular war right now, I’m with you.
Oh yeah, also? #Vote. Specifically, if you can’t vote for someone who will make it better, at least vote for someone who won’t make it worse. Because it can always get worse.
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Road deaths
"Australian road deaths rising to levels not seen in nearly a decade.""Last year, 1,266 Australians died from road accidents involving at least one car and a driver, passenger, pedestrian or cyclist. The economic cost of Australian road trauma exceeds $27 billion each year. That's 1.8 per cent per cent of Australia's GDP."
"Vision Zero: no loss of life or serious injury on roads is acceptable.">>
https://theconversation.com/can-we-cut-road-deaths-to-zero-by-2050-current-trends-say-no-whats-going-wrong-220289Car dependency in Australia is unquestioned. The 'road toll' is a sacrifice to private mobility in sprawling sub-urbia. The present 'mobility design' gives people no options to travel on (fossil fuel free) public transport, walk or cycle without fear of being maimed or squashed by a SUV.
#Cars #roads #RoadTrauma #RoadDeaths #IntegralAccident #crashes #speeding #motorists #mindsets #MobilityDesign #FossilFuels #climate #VisionZero #failure
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The deadly system of automobile dependency
"Speed is still the major reason why people either get killed or seriously injured in crashes. We can't ignore the facts, and we are seeing a significant increase in death rates around the country. The cumulative effect of 100 dead every month, and 100 hospitalised every day — it's an epidemic. A tragic epidemic...Much of the safety focus is on fatalities, more than 60,000 Australians a year survive crashes on the roads. For many, recovery is a lifelong struggle."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-19/after-years-of-decline-australia-road-toll-is-rising-730/103230110"Data released by the nation’s peak motoring body showed 2023 was the deadliest year on Australia’s roads in five and a half years, with the road death toll reaching 1,253 – the highest since 1,270 people were killed in the 12 months to March 2018....The most common killers on the road were all avoidable: speeding, drug use, drink-driving and inattention."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/20/nsw-crash-deaths-kamilaroi-highway-gunnedah-curlewis"Road transportation is the most complex and deadly system that people must face on a daily basis.">
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10154805/
#cars #motorists #roads #transportation #speed #crashes #risks #mutilation #denial #RoadToll #sacrifice #IntegralAccident #MobilityDesign -
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An #Osprey, a U.S. #militaryaircraft with #eight on board #crashes into the #sea near #Japan per #NBC NewsThe spokesperson said the #plane belonged to the #UnitedStatesmilitary but couldn't say where it was #based. There were no immediate details available on the status of the #aircraft or those 8 lives #onboard following the crash.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-military-plane-crashes-sea-japan-osprey-yakushima-rcna127129
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The #HousingCrisis is very much a #RoadSafety issue. The only way to reduce serious & fatal #traffic #crashes is to reduce the amount of #KineticEnergy being transfered among roadway users.
Best way to do that? Reduce our dependence on big, heavy, fast cars.
Best way to do that? Build #communities & #infrastructure that help people get out of cars and onto #sidewalks, #BikePaths, & #transit.
Best way to do that? Build more housing for more people in more places that don't require a #car. -
Interstate 25 reopened near #LaBajada after #crashes and stalled vehicles prompted officials to #close the #interstate early Thursday morning.
A jack-knifed semi caused southbound I-25 to be closed.
Crews have since reopened northbound I-25 after clearing the semi off the roadway.
I40 near #Gallup is also very icy.
