The VMS Body Count Club

[SSOWorld]

so far from my observations - as well as others speaking on Facebook, the following states have been displaying Public Service Announcements stating how many deaths from accidents in the calendar year:

Missouri (h/t KHarvey10), Tennessee (h/t codyg1985) Iowa, Illinois and now Wisconsin (first spotted by me today in Madison, mgk920 may have spotted them earlier in Appleton).  The questions can be asked about this and it can be trolled (in fact it is being trolled).  What's the point?  We can't help them anymore, they're dead.  The Zero deaths in... campaign many DOTs have are good to point out an awareness to alert - and sober (in WisDOT's case they're targeting drunk driving), but this is stupid.

Anyone else notice this in states you live in?

[Duke87]

Saw it on a portable VMS in Delaware a couple weeks ago, showing deaths this year and last year (this year was higher). Not sure if this was DelDOT's doing, though, may have been local.

[hotdogPi]

I hope they don't look like this...

922
DEATHS
THIS YEAR

HELP US
REACH ONE
THOUSAND

BEFORE
END OF
YEAR

[briantroutman]

They were all over Texas on a recent drive from Houston to Austin.

I don't think I've seen a death count in Pennsylvania, although I've frequently seen PennDOT advertise a citation count in large scale construction areas. Something like

STRICT ENFORCEMENT
366 CITED TO DATE
DON'T BE 367



Also–the thread title reminded me of this from the classic days of Nick at Nite

[myosh_tino]

I hope they don't look like this...

922
DEATHS
THIS YEAR

HELP US
REACH ONE
THOUSAND

BEFORE
END OF
YEAR

Reminds me of a fictional VMS I made for a different topic here...

[GaryV]

I've seen at least one on a Metro Detroit freeway.  Maybe more - after all, it is pretty easy for them to send out the message.

It's no worse than the cutesy trying to rhyme messages they sometimes use.