by Liz Karson | Mar 16, 2021 | Security Bollards
The story of a 71-year-old man who drove his car onto a sidewalk in San Diego made headlines yesterday. It happened during a rainy morning where homeless people were apparently taking shelter from the rain under an overpass. There were multiple fatalities and injuries...
by Liz Karson | Mar 2, 2021 | Security Bollards
You must realize by now how much I enjoy sharing these crazy videos. Here are some shorter clips of what happens when drivers ignore warnings and signs alerting them to automatic bollards. Or are they merely attempting to outsmart the system? In the above video we see...
by Liz Karson | Feb 16, 2021 | Security Bollards
The Age reported a follow-up story on an incident I wrote about earlier this month: “Speeding Vehicle Rams Bollard In Australia Shopping Area”. This had to do with an auto speeding down a Melbourne shopping area and coming dangerously close to hitting pedestrians....
by Liz Karson | Feb 2, 2021 | Security Bollards
Daily Mail Australia reported recently: “Security to be beefed up on Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall after a terrifying police chase through the shopping strip evoked memories of car rampage that killed six people”. Police and the city council in Melbourne,...
by Liz Karson | Jan 19, 2021 | Security Bollards
Here’s a first for this column – I am reporting on a new security bollard installation in Gibraltar. This famous promontory is, of course, located on the southwestern tip of Europe at the gateway to the Mediterranean Sea. The Gibraltar Chronicle reported:...
by Liz Karson | Jan 5, 2021 | Security Bollards
Sorry… this article was originally published on Dec. 22nd and was accidentally lost when we migrated our website to a faster server to better service you. I republish the article in its entirety. By now you must know I often take a journey off the beaten path,...