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Somewhere in Germany, there is an inner city street corner. It has a pedestrian way, and a largish rock at the corner, that protects the pedestrians space. And regularly, cars drive into it.
Oh, found it, it is this one - it is the "Umfahrstein" in Holzminden, Johannisstrasse (pics). Apparently, it was involved in well over 20 collisions. It even has entries on tripadvisor and such, getting good ratings and comments like "works for all car brands" and "local repair service options included".
I use to work near this Taco Bell. The exit to the drive through had a rock off to the side. The amount of times I left work and saw somebody sitting on top of that rock is frankly embarrassing. Just looked it up on street view and they changed it. It made them close the drive through every time somebody hit it. So not terribly surprised.
Overhead view, people kept trying to turn early and cut across the handicap parking. Why? No idea…
It’s now a fence and bollard.
They didn’t get rid of their rock though! They just moved it to the prior corner.