Roadside memorials are sometimes erected at the site of a fatal Car accident. The memorials, which often consist at first of just a few flowers or wreaths, are sometimes followed by a more permanent marker such as a cross or a plaque. These are occasionally made more personal, with names and mementos. There have been roadside memorials for more than a thousand years. Eleanor cross in England, for example, were erected in 1290 along the route of the Queen's funeral procession, though these, of course, were not intended to mark a death place. In the 1940s and 1950s the Arizona Highway patrol began using white crosses to mark the site of fatal car accidents. This practice was continued by families of road-crash victims after it had been abandoned by the police. The number of memorials erected in Australia since 1990 has increased considerably. In 2003 it was estimated that one in five road deaths were memorialised at the site of the crash. It has been suggested that the urge to erect roadside memorials is related to a growing reluctance to seek spiritual solace in organised religion, and it is interesting to note that although religious symbols are often still used at roadside memorials, these seem merely to mark the place of a violent death and are probably not intended to carry any particular religious significance. It may be that roadside memorials mean more to families than do cemeteries. At the very least, there is an immediate reminder of the person in the site of his death. These 'sacred places' however, unlike cemeteries, usually serve only as a place for immediate grieving and tend not to be maintained. The phenomenon of roadside memorials may perhaps be associated with another growing trend: public outpouring of grief for celebrities. The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, for example, precipitated an avalanche of flowers and wreaths at the Paris site of her death and at Kensington Place. While car-crash victims are rarely so well-known, something of the same sort of impulse to make a public display of emotion at the site of a tragedy may be partly responsible for the growing popularity of roadside memorials. Another aspect of these memorials is that they serve as a warning to other road users, both as a general reminder of the dangers of driving, and to mark a place where an fatal accident took place. == External links == [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/stories/s1000854.htm Australian Broadcating Commission transcript of ''White lines, White Crosses'', broadcast 7 December 2003] [http://www.abc.net.au/religion/stories/s1000839.htm Further information and pictures accompanying the story ''White Lines, White Crosses''] Memorials Death customs Car safety
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Roadside memorials are sometimes erected at the site of a fatal Car accident. The memorials, which often consist at first of just a few flowers or wreaths, are sometimes followed by a more permanent marker such as a cross or a plaque. These are occasionally made more personal, with names and mementos. There have been roadside memorials for more than a thousand years. Eleanor cross in England, for example, were erected in 1290 along the route of the Queen's funeral procession, though these, of course, were not intended to mark a death place. In the 1940s and 1950s the Arizona Highway patrol began using white crosses to mark the site of fatal car accidents. This practice was continued by families of road-crash victims after it had been abandoned by the police. The number of memorials erected in Australia since 1990 has increased considerably. In 2003 it was estimated that one in five road deaths were memorialised at the site of the crash. It has been suggested that the urge to erect roadside memorials is related to a growing reluctance to seek spiritual solace in organised religion, and it is interesting to note that although religious symbols are often still used at roadside memorials, these seem merely to mark the place of a violent death and are probably not intended to carry any particular religious significance. It may be that roadside memorials mean more to families than do cemeteries. At the very least, there is an immediate reminder of the person in the site of his death. These 'sacred places' however, unlike cemeteries, usually serve only as a place for immediate grieving and tend not to be maintained. The phenomenon of roadside memorials may perhaps be associated with another growing trend: public outpouring of grief for celebrities. The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, for example, precipitated an avalanche of flowers and wreaths at the Paris site of her death and at Kensington Place. While car-crash victims are rarely so well-known, something of the same sort of impulse to make a public display of emotion at the site of a tragedy may be partly responsible for the growing popularity of roadside memorials. Another aspect of these memorials is that they serve as a warning to other road users, both as a general reminder of the dangers of driving, and to mark a place where an fatal accident took place. == External links == [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/stories/s1000854.htm Australian Broadcating Commission transcript of ''White lines, White Crosses'', broadcast 7 December 2003] [http://www.abc.net.au/religion/stories/s1000839.htm Further information and pictures accompanying the story ''White Lines, White Crosses''] Memorials Death customs Car safety
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