Easily replaced breakaway fence posts?

[dave89iroc]

Steel square tubbing in concrete, flush with ground, 4x4 fence posts w/breakaway feature(highway signs have holes drilled through them)

 

[TheSt|G]

Just get a few embassy bollards:

 

[kbs2244]

The berm with a fence on top is a well used way around fence restrictions.
A 2 or 3 foot berm will stop all but The Dukes of Hazard.

 

[engineer2]

The problem with boulders is you or the insurance company would have to clean up antifreeze and motor oil in addition to scattered car parts.

 

[rsanter]

I understand the liability aspect, but you have already had this happen more than once. Your defense is that you are protecting your family from a car coming into the house and killing someone..
Install the bollards and use them to hold the picket fence. Install a couple well placed rocks for “decoration”

Install security cameras aimed at the area to document the stupidity and to show in court if needed. Otherwise post on utube for entertainment

 

[Garageguy65]

Just get a few embassy bollards and some security cameras.

Fixed it for you

 

[Ironcrow]

And...there's a truck cab in your swimming pool

 

[Aaron_W]

So I did send an email to the head of the cities public works, traffic division asking for suggestions for appropriate traffic barriers for private property. Will wait and see what if any response I get. I mentioned it was the second time in 4 years, hoping that might get more attention.

Perhaps the OP does not have a big enough lot to have distance to provide protection. If there is enough space between the road ROW and the house I also vote for "decorative" rocks.

KEH

I'm right in the city, just outside of the downtown. It is a small city, and a large lot for a city being about 1/5 acre, but yes still a fairly small lot, and on a corner so two directions to cover. There is a public sidewalk immediately adjacent to the fenceline. The layered approach suggested by some would work great on a larger lot, but would basically leave me with a yard full of bollards and K rails. It would seriously reduce my lawn mowing time though.

I was going to say about the same thing - there is a Right of Way and/or easement that belongs to the city - usually measured from the center of the roadway. You do not - technically - own the property all the way to the street. Our corner pins are about 8' from the road surface but it's a skinny strip of asphalt and not a "real" street. The AHJ can pretty much take out anything in that zone, or force removal.

One thing not mentioned that is usually ignored in that zone is trees. A couple or three fast growing Arizona Ash or similar might have time to big enough to stop the next one.

Or posts + K-rail behind your fence, hidden by bushes or in a big planter. Or possibly a concrete "footer" about 2~3' tall with the fence on top.

I do have redwood trees on the property, they are fast growing (practically weeds) and in 8-10 years could be quite effective and attractive traffic blocks. They are also considered desirable by the city.

I'm not quite there yet as the lot is already about 50% shade and that would pretty well bring us to 100%, but if I don't figure out another solution and we get another car in the yard, shade on.

I am seriously considering a K rail inside a redwood planter box as a last ditch stop before the house. The one that really has me concerned is the police. The police station is about a mile up the road and they come blasting down the street a couple times a month. If anyone ever runs the stop sign when they are coming, I may have a squad car in my attic.

Accidents that are normally funny are hilarious when the Wienermobile is involved.

Unless you get pinned under it, I think even the home owner would have to laugh about that.

 

[Steve.S]

Wooden guardrail posts are designed for this, at least near the end facing traffic.

Seems like it would work in your situation.

 

[Handyfarmer]

steel pipe set in concrete, and filled with concrete, at least the car will feel it.

if the corner is welded up and set most cars would be damaged if it was hit,

 

[jetnow1]

I had my mailbox next to my driveway, would come home at least once a year to find it
taken out by someone. Never any way to id who. There is a curve just after the driveway and the next house has a daycare so the bus stops just around the curve and people are usually driving too fast and have to slam on their brakes for the bus. Finally moved the mailbox to the center of my road frontage, the next week a drunk driver lost control and crossed over, rolled the car several times, took out both my mailbox and my tenants mailbox, finally hitting a maple tree in the next door 6 feet off the ground.
At least this one I could id the driver and collect from his insurance, though the idiot cop
put there was no insurance on the report.

 

[ChevyEFI]

I would like a moat with fake alligators if I ever live in a home with that kind of road wreck involvement.

 

[GaryM909]

I would be looking at putting large landscape rocks or something like that. Next time it happens somebody might be standing on the other side of the fence.

 

[jkeyser14]

We have seriously contemplated bollards, at least one for the corner post. Not sure about legal implications, this is California after all.

RVdan, that is an interesting idea. If nothing else it would help with the issue of the holes having to be dug a little larger each time.

Both times the insurance company got hosed. Both drivers and us have all been insured with the same company.
It is kind of goofy but we got an additional check 6 months later to cover our deductible after they settle up fault. I find that funny because it seems highly unlikely that a home could be found at fault for a car hitting it.

Just say you have little children (friends kids or something) that play in your front yard. The bollards are there to protect them, not your lawn...

 

[JTG]

A guy at the intersection near me went with the big boulder idea after the last car ran the stop light and took out the tree that was there.