roadside cross
Accident death marker
A roadside cross is a marker placed where someone died in a traffic accident, typically erected by family or friends as a memorial.
Often decorated with flowers, photographs, or personal items, these crosses serve both as tributes to the deceased and informal warnings to other drivers.
We passed three roadside crosses on that stretch of highway.
Though associated with Christian tradition, the practice has become largely secular in the United States and Latin America.
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- accidentUnintended harmful event
- fatal accidentUnintended event causing death
- drunk driverIntoxicated vehicle operator
- flowersPlant reproductive structures
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- crossesrood, corpus, crucifixes, calvaries, potent
- monumentsWashington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, Arc de Triomphe
- grave markersheadstone, gravestone, tombstone, grave marker, footstone
- memorialsmemorial, memorial service, memorial statue, memorials, war memorial
- funeral itemscasket, cremation urn, shroud, funeral program, guest book
- shrineswayside shrine, ancestral shrine, spirit house, jinja, haiden
roadside crossgrave marker
Monument identifying burial spot
mausoleum · columbarium · cemetery plot · tomb · crypt
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