Putting this week’s story about the Woodmere Avenue width restriction on the page, we came across a telling problem. Haven’t we used this headline before?

The words 'this week's' are also a bit of a clue.

There are only so many variations on ‘Car smashes into/hits/collides with bollards’ or ‘Bollards claim another victim’. People have been calling for something to be done for a while now.

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The fact is that the inventiveness needed here is not on the our part of whoever has to write the headlines.

People who design any product, machine or system need to have an understanding of how people use it in real life and what can go wrong.

If the same bad things keep happening, there is a limit to how much you can blame the user.

Watford Observer:

The Volvo needed to be recovered by a digger at the Woodmere Avenue width restriction

Read more: 'Urgent change' demanded after car gets stuck in width restriction

People keep hitting the Woodmere Avenue bollards, and hard enough that cars get stuck and are badly damaged. A look at the footage and photos shows that these are not minor scuffs that will polish out.

Rather than address the problem, the current policy appears to be to wait until some new laws about ANPR cameras can be brought in.

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It may be just good luck that nobody has been badly hurt, and that might well happen before the law on cameras changes.

If speed is the cause, people need to be slowed down. Would better signs, a speed bump or even a speed camera work? After all, the justification for speed cameras is that they are supposed to be put at places where there are repeated accidents.

If it is driver error, that error needs to be made impossible with a redesign of the restriction or the road around it.

There needs to be some urgency to finding a solution, even a short term one, before someone really does get hurt.