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A narrative on roadside memorials based on such rigorously analyzed material patterns would almost certainly tell distinctive stories about society and grief. This Australian marker replaced an earlier marker at the same site from Australian Roadside Memorials.
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The vast majority of roadside shrines and memorials are testaments to auto accidents, and perhaps in some eyes these memorials are cautionary tales about the dangers of the road. Jack Santino, for example, sees spontaneous shrines as public political statements illuminating a concrete social ill , with roadside memorials often speaking against drunk driving.
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In most cases, though, these shrines are fundamentally efforts to simply manage incomprehensible tragedy. Roadside shrines spring up when people are trying to memorialize a loved one lost in the sudden and unexpected tragedy of an auto accident, often aspiring to commemorate someone lost in the midst of youth whose life may risk being forgotten.
Others are exceptionally complex installations that grow over time and are well-maintained. At least one firm manufactures crosses specifically for use as roadside memorials , but in the thousands of online pictures of roadside shrines nearly all appear to be homemade. Their appearance in public space has led some communities to attempt to control spontaneous shrines. The most common argument against the shrines is that they are distractions on public roadways, violating public property law and simultaneously triggering new accidents though there appears to be no evidence indicating that any wrecks have been caused by roadside shrines or by pedestrians erecting them.
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Few governments have addressed such memorials as extensions of Christian symbols to public property , and it would be interesting to identify some American memorials that incorporate non-Christian symbols. The persistence of many unmaintained shrines as well as those that are regularly visited suggests that there is a largely unspoken recognition of the significance of these spaces and material offerings that most of us are disinclined to contest.
State and local governments may aspire to control such relatively spontaneous folk offerings, but it is very unlikely they can do more than remove existing shrines and create significant tension among survivors. In many cases, survivors simply erect new memorials in the wake of their dismantling. The light pole neighboring their accident scene holds a sign commemorating DJ Rahn and Carrie Coleglazier.
My home state of Indiana is one of those 15 states that has outlawed roadside shrines, but the streets are dotted with a vast range of typical roadside memorials revealing the difference between law and everyday practice. Nearly each day, for instance, I pass a prominent memorial to two Butler University students, DJ Rahn and Carrie Colglazier, who in June, were on a motorcycle that was hit by a drunk driver. Nine years later the intersection still has two modest crosses erected beneath a tree on a lot owned by a church, which appears to dutifully mow around the crosses , with a modest stone plaque in the ground, a cluster of flowers, and a sign affixed to the neighboring light pole.
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What was once a spontaneous shrine might now be termed a genuine permanent memorial, since it appears well-maintained and presently has a flower bouquet that has dried in the midst of a steaming Midwestern summer.