Concord house hit by several cars gets protective barrier installed
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- A Concord house that’s been crashed into by wayward cars time and time again now has a wall of protection around it. Jodi Hernandez reports.
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Wow, say that again about liability for people driving dangerously and crashing into this guys' rental home. People are not supposed to drive dangerously in the first place. So whatever injuries and damage they cause by driving in an unsafe manner, that IS ON THEM. Why IS THIS HOMEOWNER PAYING OUT Of pocket for repairs? That should be homeowners' insurance and the car insurance of the offending cars. If he got a police report in every case, then someone owes him some money. Get a lawyer.
LOL guarantee they don't have insurance and don't have any money. funny how you can't sue them or do anything if they don't have money but they could sue you for everything you own.
Some people don't have any money (especially the kind of idiots that wrecklessly put other people's lives in danger).
@@CPreacher40 As far as I know Homeowners and Car insurance are required.
@@thomasstecyk792 LOL you are naive then. people drive without insurance all the time and the police won't do anything cause these people are deadbeats, illegals or criminals. that's why I hate hearing that the law only effects poor people since they are the ones that get away with offences that up right well to do citizens would get arrested for and actually be punished accordingly with the crime.
@@thomasstecyk792 ha that doesn't mean they have it!!
Is sad not that cars and careless drivers keep crashing into this man house, is sad that he have to jump through hoops to get permission to build a barriers (on his own dime) to be safe !
Wonder how much it cost him?
Local government is always putting up roadblocks against people who are trying to get things done. 😠
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(No pun intended!)
the fact that the city would not let him build a sturdy wall because the reckless drivers could sue for injuries says a lot about our city governments. I would suggest calling in some iron workers to rebuild the front of the house with steel rather than wood.
Good idea!
This is why I would never buy a house placed on a corner or T-intersection
I lived at a T. Large oak trees prevented any cars getting to my house. No lawsuits either, because they are a natural barrier.
@@ronjohnson9032 too bad it takes decades to grow a mature oak tree
@mrxxbrian They are scarred but still living. Most are 2- 3 feet thick. Auto's haven't faired so well.
@@mrxxbrian California developed Austrees would work lovely - but the other problem is: home owners insurance will eventually require them cut down...and with the problem of home owners insurance in california currently - a wall might work better. Also, no creepers can hide in this yard - creepers prefer tree filled lawns.
The wall is not tall enough. A few blocks from where I live, the wall in front of a house, with a very similar flow of traffic,
does not stop the three plus ton, 60 m.p.h., cart wheeling games. Good luck and WOW for the allowed barrier build.
.... just tall enough to launch a speeding car onto the roof and be even more dangerous. I bet the City had a requirement about how tall the wall could be. I also bet that he could be sued if a speeding car crashes into the wall and the driver or occupant is killed or injured.
I was thinking the same thing, probably not tall enough. But better than nothing for sure.
@@L.Spencer I thought not tall enough too
we had a house like this in White Rock. Had to re-route the road for locals only. Fortunately we had the choice.
The City Council should pay for part of the fence, because they either approved the road after the house was built or approved the house after the road was built, knowing the risks to the property. Either way the council has to approve of both structures, so is in part liable for ensuring adequate protection for the occupants from stray vehicles.
As a Walnut Creek resident, the traffic control around here and Concord is gotten atrocious, people drive with abandon around here now…..where as traffic used to be very strict when I moved here 14 years ago, its like they don’t care and I frequently see people doing double the speed limit and blowing thru red lights.
I live on a 25 mph street and have cars pushing 60+ in the evening.
People seem to be getting more and more crazy/ reckless. I split my time between Miami and Boston and they are bad drivers in both places. I have seen so many accidents.
this is what happens when you don't punish people for bad behavior and in some cases even encouraged.
Been driving for Dominos for 8+ years in Texas and since 2016 I have seen a lot more people disobeying traffic laws, running red lights, cruising through stop signs/school bus stop signs. They just think the law does not apply to them. And I have been in two wrecks since. First one someone ran the red light. Second one was a drunk driver slammed into my rear end while I was at a red light. It was a light that is on the highway so he was going 60mph+. Luckly I was not injured and both times a cop car was at the intersection so easy proof that I was not at fault. Even though I was not at fault insurance still increases my rates.
Defund the police state
@ThroughTheHaze Miami drivers are one of the worst, for sure. I was surprised when I traveled there a few years ago. I think it will be more insane now.
Finally, someone in CA has the guts to pass a common sense car control bill.
Finally someone in California has enough sense to build the wall, and stop the illegals (cars) from getting through.
No "bill." Just a wall.
He should plant privacy bushes. They’ll also reduce smog from entering the house.
Too bad the wall wasn’t built taller, At least 6ft. I feel like a car can hit the wall and flip onto the property still.
id be annoyed by all the headlights lol
Needs to put reflective markers on wall so cars can see it
you mean like the bright white lines on the road, which they should be driving between?
Of course, Concord won't answer that question, they're part if not mostly the reason why he can't build a wall.
They are afraid to get sued if the driver dies or gets injured bc of the wall!
@y.r.9401
*CRASH*
Driver: Who put this wall here? ( proceeds to finish whiskey bottle) I ran into this person and my knee is broken. *IM >belch!< SUING!*
Officer: Sir, you are clearly driving under the influence AND have committed Vehicular Manslaughter the only one getting sued here is YOU.
Note to self: Never buy a house on a corner
Corner house is okay, but dangerous when off a main street where traffic is moving fast.
You couldn’t pay me to live in that house 😂
never buy a corner house in cali. scratch that.. dont buy a house in cali..
Or a busy street, intersection
...or next to a School/Hospital/Church.
The noise and loitering and foul mouthed Adults from ALL three...
It figures that the LOCAL city government does stupid things and thinks that they're ABOVE the rest of us. Ridiculous.
The wall is not tall enough (but just tall enough to launch a speeding car onto the roof and be even more dangerous).
Yep……completely useless!
The height looks like it can stop cars, but may not stop taller trucks from flipping into the home.
I think the house needs to be torn down, if can’t be made safe. Nobody should live under fear of a car crashing on them.
I’d have raised the front yard by 3 -4 feet first and then build the barrier wall. It doesn’t seem tall enough. Maybe line the interior of the wall with arborvitae trees so they grow fast. If a car would come thru it would get stuck in the tree limbs rather than the house.
i think it will stop. unless 79mph
@@jjayguy23Nope, the wall needs to be higher in that case. It'll do its small part in ridding the road of bad drivers.
The city should do something, not the property owner.
This is a city traffic design problem, the city should solve the problem. Why should the property owner bear the cost of problem alleviation? And it is not a solution, sooner than later, someone is going to get killed by the concrete, and the victim is going to sue the property owner.
Stupid law. Why would the owner be liable if some stupid reckless speeding driver hit the wall in his property? It's moronic to think that on the part of city officials. Nonsense!
With a larger setback, building most any kind of barrier would be no issue. However, due to its proximity to the road, there are legitimate safety concerns that need to be taken into account. Owner went it about it the correct way to limit their liability.
He needs to plant some trees in the front yard too….once trees get bigger they help block vehicles and would create a nice barrier between the house and traffic. Cars these days fly into the air when they crash…so one could fly or tumble over that short wall and a semi would bust through it like sticks…unfortunately.
As a civil engineer I can tell you that wall is not strong enough.
@dirtmc... between you and a beaver, who's a better engineer?. Beaver best you. Nah, just kidding. I like giving engineers a hard time. But I do believe you, that wall is at, not high enough.
i think it should be higher! good job everyone!
Yea cuz if it was a bobtail that shits going straight thru it
I was just in Washington DC for two weeks. Almost every road in the city has a 25 MPH speed limit and they have red light and speeding ticket cameras.
Every time you get back home you wonder if you got a speeding ticket that trip.
Wow, that sucks. Could probably plant some taller hedges for added protection. The wall seems kind of short to stop a car flipping in the air. My neighbor had a drunk driver crash into her fence after they were spinning donuts in our intersection.
That thing needs to be higher
I moved from Concord to Nevada. Dealing with the City of Concord, like so much of CA, has been a nightmare for decades - the CA problems developed gradually as the local governments became kingdoms and to the point that the State imposed a “Builder’s Remedy” law stripping some locals of their royal powers over residential construction. The development of the former Concord Naval Weapons property has been stalled forever because Concord insists on Union Labor which nobody can pencil out - so everyone goes to another state.
Ya , I bought property here in central ca .. it had HOA.. sold that mf .. it really sucks
people in concord. nuff said
I moved away
We have a city here in Florida that is full of transplants and I am guess that a lot of them are in the politics. Because this city has a lot of these ridiculous nanny rules and laws. I have never seen so many restrictions in a city. I HAVE in an HOA, though. I call it the CITY HOA. and nobody denies it.
I've always thought having a corner house is the most dangerous thing
Curious how much a wall like that might cost
Much cheaper, less energy and time consuming than dealing with the corrupt bureaucrats and hoa
Amen! @@aom808
The wall needs to be taller, at least 6 feet tall.
Yeah, we need more wall
Yeah but flying cars are coming soon. We all better move underground.
Feng sui says never build house or business on corner
What about gas stations?
Is that wall tall enough? It looks like the car that actually crashed into the living room went airborne somewhere during the incident.
City should have installed that wall
The City has the wrong leadership if they can't help with public safety.
That wall needs to be higher and re-enforce even more so to protect this humble home on the corner. And shame on the bureaucracy at Concord for giving this fine citizen of a man a hard time.
he needs to add some reflective paint and/or blinking warning lights as well. Drivers, on average, are idiots.
This happened to my neighbors and at my apartment complex too - on busy roads in a city with barely any traffic cops!
Is the road/intersection design a part of the reason people crash there? I know there's a couple spots in SJ that have similar problems, and they also want/need wall barriers that I think the city is/was also lagging on.
wow...insurance companies still insuring him after all those accidents??????
THE POWER OF THE MEDIA!!!!
Build that wall! Build that wall!
Here in Canada, people who owns a corner house would put a big piece of rock in the front of their house(with some landscapes). Not enough to kill the driver but enough to stop most vehicles with a drunk driver behind the steering wheel.
Watch out for flying cars
There's a corner house not far from me that gets hits on cars at least twice a year. It has a block wall around the front that gets destroyed, but at least the house in undamaged.
🤔cars ...will now hit fence flip over land on and thru roof😬
that wall is right on the sidewalk right-of-way; it's the cities problem, not the home owners. In Canada out towns built walls like this in problem area and then made the road local only.
so the CITY said that someone crashing into the wall could hold the CITY responsible? or the homeowner? WHAT? any cars impacting that wall are TRESPASSING!!
Sometimes, a citizen has to sue the city.
Looking at Concord Municipal Code: “18.150.170 Traffic visibility at intersections and driveways” and “18.150.040 Fences and walls” show he could have constructed the 3 foot wall without need for special approval.
I would add a second row of bollards a few feet higher. And a row of evergreen trees behind this wall to help with the sound. After I was done it would be a fortress that could not be seen from the street.
California
The city should have built the damn well themselves! He should sue the city for all the damage that happened after they forbid him to protect the structure.
Watch him get sued when someone crashes into the wall and gets injured.I wonder what his home owners insurance company has to say about it ?
most-skilled california drivers
Build the wall!
Driver should be liable if they hit the fence or house or anyone. This story tells me that Concord is poorly managed.
That wall is too short, it needs to be much higher, 3x as high, because crashing cars will just hurdle, tumble, catapult, and bounce over it. A truck will easily blast through it, needs to be 5 times as thick, reinforced with boulders. THEY NEED A RED LIGHT AT THAT INTERSECTION STAGGERED LIGHTS LEADING UP TO IT, AND SIGNAGE SAYING TO SLOW DOWN.
the barrier isn't high enough, a car going full speed will crash then flip onto the house
Yes; the innocent person should not get killed!
wall isn't tall enough and isn't thick enough unless its reinforced
Did Mexico pay for the wall?
YOu have the right to protect your homestead period. We should not be asking them for permission.
Somehow I can still see cars making it over that wall
City need to be fire no fuckin excuse
A car is now going to flip over that low wall and into the house.
i remember multiple stories here
The problem is ... can he live with the death (of maybe children) when the next car, maybe through no fault of its own, crashes into that immovable wall of concrete?
He should have done a 6 ft wall, now cars will hit it and flip into the front yard or the house.
Harsh letters to concord work well actually. Email them. Emails are evidence.
Gawd it would suck to live there on its traffic alone. Why anyone would choose to set there life up on a busy roadside is beyond me. This isn't a secure home. Irregardless of that wall.
The bigger question is why are drivers either distracted or driving like maniacs? If you can't even pay attention while driving then you probably shouldn't operate a vehicle.
City should've built that wall!
"Stand your Hedge"
I know exactly where this is. That wall isn't going to be tall enough. People fly down Clayton Rd way over the speed limit. Won't take much to get launched up and over that wall.
Let’s drive around the wall!!
Definitely needs to be bigger and ticker
If it were me I would have SUED the city and made them build the wall AND pay for past repairs.
It's the cities fault for poorly designing the road in the first place. He should sue the city.
Since the state owns the high way that passes the house why don't they place speed humps (they are like speed bumps on steroids as far as width goes). It'll force cars to slow down or be ripped to shreds when they bottom out.
Come on. Just install a traffic light
A heavy enough truck traveling at a high speed will plow thru that wall
I would put a Jump ramp, instead of a barrier, setup a video and upload to RUclips :D
In reality what happened last night concord concord pr hiding somthing that happened between Detroit ave and laguna they had it shut down around 11pm till late hours a lot of cops a lot investigators I think we needa answers ,,,????
In the Middle East every residential parcel is surrounded by a towering renforced concrete wall with metal gates. They don't like Karens there.
City would be liable my ass.
East Bay drivers are really aggressive.
As soon as I cross the Bridge I notice it.
Cost the insurance companies.
Sue friendly mindset/culture here makes things difficult.
Land of the free, but you need permission to defend your property...
Some car will fly over the new concrete wall 😂
the wall is just a launch device.
In Europe we'd change the speed limits but you do you America
The Bay Area is such a mess
She could have been drunk or sleep or anything.
Need to plant some trees too
Launch point
Is this city owned by the CCP!!!!
Concord, CA is largely a tacky city. The house with its concrete wall is a largely tacky house. Any family moving into a home with the history of crashes is a largely tacky family. The drivers crashing into this house are largely tacky drivers.
💡 Mow the house down and widen the road.
PS. Well, I was gonna refer to the station covering this story with so much verve, you guessed it, tacky, but I won’t.
Concord, Ca is so #BigGulp 🙄so #CherrySlurpee 🙄
I’m in Walnut Creek, CA~we’re less tacky here. js.
😳 Holy C r a p!
He could plant trees around the property, much cheaper.