Signs clearly not enough. You know what people are like. That’s someone’s daughter, mother, sister.. it’s a tragedy. Pronouncing them stupid on an internet forum for no real reason, bit shitty imo.
If the signs are not enough, what do you, in your wisdom, suggest?
It’s a public area, and yes, I guess they could build a wall, but I’d place a certain bet that people would find something to stand on, which would only compound the danger, but the thing is it’s almost impossible to legislate against the stupidity of humans; sure, you could send people packing at gunpoint, or have police there 24/7, but honestly, is that legitimate use of police time?
The beach between Burnham-on-Sea and Brean is very dangerous, it’s nearly six miles long, the tide goes out nearly a mile and comes in at 3mph, and there are large areas of very soft mud, often with a thin skim of sand over the top, and if you walk into a patch it’s incredibly difficult, often impossible to get yourself out without help.
There are signs on entry, which say, quite clearly ‘Warning. Soft sand and mud. Danger of sinking’, and you’re handed a leaflet on beach safety.
But still, every year, a significant number of grockles try to walk to the sea, then get stuck, some even try to drive a ton or two of car towards the sea, and express astonishment when it gets stuck up to the floorpan and disappears under twenty or thirty feet of salt water.
The local hovercraft is called out over two hundred times a year, although not all are to beach rescues, and some people get themselves out of trouble, but still, the same point applies: at what point to you start to put into place forcible restrictions on what people can or can’t do in a public place, when they are the only ones at risk from their own actions?
It’s a very slippery slope, quite literally, in fact, because you could then imagine restricting cyclists access to certain areas of countryside, because of a perceived risk of injury, or mountain walkers/climbers, hang gliders, parachutists, skiers…
What this poor lady did wasn’t much different to people going close to the seafront during a storm with big waves coming in, and either being hit by a large piece of debris or being knocked over and hitting her head, or washed out to sea, again, people are warned time and time again about the dangers, time and time again the warnings are ignored.