Roadside memorials are a distraction to drivers and should be banned. We don’t see these memorials in hospital rooms or other places where someone has died and the roadside should be no different. I agree that grave yards have a purpose. My front yard is not a grave yard and please don’t expect me to allow someone’s family to place a memorial to their loved one’s place of death there.
And they get shabby looking, after a time. Not a particularly attractive way to remember a soul.
We don’t see these memorials in hospital rooms or other places where someone has died and the roadside should be no different.
I suppose they think the memorials will cause others to be more careful, but I think that is a very dubious claim. I see them on a lot of the curvy twisties where I drive. The accidents were the result of texting, falling asleep or drinking, with the rare deer hit that resulted in human deaths.
i.e. they are not really going to reduce that sort of thing by their mere presence.