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Traffic collision. A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building. Traffic collisions often result in injury, disability, death, and property damage as ...
Desolate cityscape known as greyfield land or urban prairie. Since the 1970s and 1980s, urban decay has been a phenomenon associated with some Western cities, especially in North America and parts of Europe. Cities have experienced population flights to the suburbs and exurb commuter towns; often in the form of white flight. [1]
A typical suburban development in the United States, located in Chandler, Arizona An urban development in Palma, Mallorca. Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment [1]) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city".
Road traffic collisions generally fall into one of five common types: A Mercury Tracer that was damaged by colliding with a white-tailed deer in Wisconsin. Lane departure crashes, which occur when a driver leaves the lane they are in and collides with another vehicle or a roadside object. These include head-on collisions and run-off-road ...
Dead end street. A dead end, also known as a cul-de-sac (/ ˈkʌldəsæk, ˈkʊl -/; [1] French: [kydsak], [2] lit. 'bag bottom'[3]), or a no-through road or no-exit road, is a street with only one combined inlet and outlet. The term "dead end" is understood in all varieties of English but may not be the locally most common expression.
The crash happened just before 9 p.m. Wednesday on Marathon County W, near Alamo Road, in the town of Texas. One dead and three injured in one-vehicle crash Wednesday in northern Marathon County ...
Crash program. A crash program is a plan of action entailing rapid, intensive resource allocation to solve a pressing problem. [1] Rapidity may eliminate investigation and planning essential to efficient use of resources when goals are perceived as more important than those resources.
Rosegarth Square, in the town centre, is due to be rejuvenated with green spaces, residential units and the redevelopment of a former B&M store, while shopfronts will be replaced and new signs put up.