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What fucking kind of shithole place allows driving of anything but emergency vehicles on a public beach?!
Murrica
Second amendment, my dude. Cars are for killing, that makes them weapons. The second amendment to the us constitution is real clear; 'shall not be infringed'.
It’s dangerous for emergency vehicles to drive in beaches too. There was a case of a patrol SUV running someone over not too long ago. Poor vehicle sight lines is a big factor.
What fucking kind of shithole place allows the approval/sale of anything with poor vehicle sight lines?!
Oh wait, i live in a shithole place that allows these monstrously large SUVs and pickup trucks on our roads
“No words can express how sad this is, and there’s nothing that will make that family feel better,” said Joe Ryan, who lives in Volusia County.
“I don’t think driving on the beach should be done away with. I think it is a good thing, but maybe there should be a driving lane that is fenced off and a separate walking path,” Ryan said.
Fuck off Ryan, car belong on the road, not beach.
We should have car lanes on the beach!
so we should have bike lanes on the road?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
The US sounds like such a hell hole with people like Ryan in it.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office says a 2-year-old girl was hit by a car after running into a traffic lane on the beach about 4:30 p.m. Saturday in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
How is there a traffic lane on the beach? Who did this? How does this happen?
Lol, it's a thing apparently, a "Florida tradition".
Imagine looking at the beach & thinking 'yeah, needs more cars' ...
Now this is dystopian :-(
Oh my god it's as bad as it sound
This is insane!
Volusia County is like the Florida of Florida, it's where Daytona (of Daytona 500 and Daytona Bike Week) is, and it's one of just 4 or 5 places in FL that allow driving on the beaches.
A woman was hit by a car on this beach in March, a 3 year old was hit in April, and now this (almost) 2 year old, and that's just this beach, just this year, so far.
If you're still wondering why this is allowed to continue (and will be indefinitely), watch this short interview with a Volusia County Council member, and see on his face how many fucks he gives:
My parents have an old picture in a photo album of them on that beach. Followed by a picture of some guys expensive muscle car being washed away by the rising tide
this is why it's important not to swim too far out from shore or you could get hit by a car in a riptide
Sad part is recently a cyber truck did try to go into water recently
see i thought the sad part was when a kid died
The cybertruck was destroyed by the effort
I guess Musk never succeeded in his "you could use it as a boat" statement
What is a car doing on a beach?
Americans too fat to walk from the carpark to the beach.
I'd say that as if it was a joke but it appears to be what happened here.
Why the fuck would you allow vehicles onto the beach in the first place to drag their oily bullshit up on the sand
Daytona has a long racing history that goes back to before the speedway was there. Back then they used to race on the beach because it's long, straight, and flat. That's where the tradition of driving on the beach comes from and it's considered part of the local culture and a defining aspect of that part of Florida. That's why there is so much resistance to getting rid of it.
"Culture"
So that’s why us Australians call USA beaches dog shit. Why the fuck does any authority of any level of government allow cars on beaches?
There are plenty of beaches in Australia that allow vehicles.
I wonder if it's West Australians who call American beaches bad. West Australia has the most beautiful white sand beaches, everywhere else looks dirty to them
Tbf most American beaches don't allow cars. But there are more exceptions to that than you would think and there is a large demographic that absolutely loves them.
Terrible beaches in most of the country, if your standard is based on what you find in a travel brochure.
People are always shocked to find out that most WA and OR beaches are designated highways - and then they get there and see them it makes plenty of sense. Km on km of beach with fuck all there, 500m of dune covered in razor grass between you and the houses, occasional 1-inch fjords, the nice soft bits near the dunes sometimes have pits of quicksand, and the whole thing is you-have-to-shout windy and fucking FREEZING. And then theres how shit the beach itself is, which once you get past the dune areas (not highway, precious and beautiful ecology) is just several hundred meters of hard-packed sand or outright gravel and then blump. Ocean.
The nice bits of beach are all protected from vehicle traffic, the parts where you get good surfing waves or scenic vistas or are near a population center, but the vast majority of the coast is only ever visited to dig up clams or blow up dead whales.
But how else will we get cops there?
In Australia, they park and walk
Cops can't walk, don't be absurd.
Yeah, they need Segways with big beach tires
That would still involve being outside, breathing the same air as us