Earlier this month, on the topic of how road-side infrastructure is designed to crumple when hit in order to protect motorists, this blog wrote:

And this is also why the city's recent safety improvements at Lincoln/Walnut mainly use paint, plastic posts, and flashing lights (set back from the roadway and presumably mounted using break-away bolts) to visually advise motorists to please not kill another pedestrian at that intersection (as happened in 2021) and to please not crash into a bedroom (as happened in 2019).

This Saturday, a motorist demonstrated how those new break-away bolts work at that very intersection of Lincoln Ave and Walnut St:

Oh well.