Many landlords and retailers use cheap replaceable posts for ADA signage because they are so frequently hit and damaged. You can see the bent-over ADA sign laying on the ground in this video from a recent storefront crash at a Starbucks in Illinois. The vehicle that crashed into the store drove right over the wheel stop and right over the sign before striking the unprotected glass storefront, causing several injuries to customers inside.
WHAT IF INSTEAD, the required ADA signage had been installed and protected inside an #ASTM #F3016 crash-tested safety bollard? This simple change is FULLY ADA-COMPLIANT. Two things result: reduction of risk stemming from the known hazard of pedestrian trip&fall injuries by eliminating the wheel stops, and, prevention of storefront crashes by placing crash-tested bollards as safety barrier at the end of each ADA spaces.
Here is the safer industry standard method -- fully ADA-compliant, free of trip hazards, and effective protection against wayward vehicles. Pedestrians win, landlords win, retailers win! Had this been deployed at the Starbucks store in the video above, no injuries to customers, no damage to the storefront, no wheel stops to trip over.
Win Win Win!
WHAT IF INSTEAD, the required ADA signage had been installed and protected inside an #ASTM #F3016 crash-tested safety bollard? This simple change is FULLY ADA-COMPLIANT. Two things result: reduction of risk stemming from the known hazard of pedestrian trip&fall injuries by eliminating the wheel stops, and, prevention of storefront crashes by placing crash-tested bollards as safety barrier at the end of each ADA spaces.
Here is the safer industry standard method -- fully ADA-compliant, free of trip hazards, and effective protection against wayward vehicles. Pedestrians win, landlords win, retailers win! Had this been deployed at the Starbucks store in the video above, no injuries to customers, no damage to the storefront, no wheel stops to trip over.
Win Win Win!
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