Update: Four years and 100 videos later, the infamous Fresno speed bumps are still launching cars, and the city still hasn’t touched them. The YouTube channel Speed Bump Olympics has added dozens of fresh clips since our last update, the bumps got new reflectors, but they’re still claiming victims.
Whether you call them speed bumps or speed humps, we can all agree that they can be an annoyance. But in many areas, they are a necessary measure to slow down traffic and minimize speeding. But lining up two of them back to back, with a third lurking a short distance later? That seems bizarre, to put it mildly.
For a little over four years, the owner of one YouTube channel has been documenting vehicles barreling across a pair of speed bumps sat directly in front of their house. The bumps occupy a half-mile stretch of Chestnut Avenue in east-central Fresno, between Gettysburg and Ashlan, and they are just one of three sets scattered along the same road. Why anyone decided two large speed bumps belonged this close together is anybody’s guess. It does, however, make for some very entertaining footage…