Intersection Window Washers Essay

This article written by Simon Collins explains some of the problems many people have been having with “Intersection” car window washers. It has recently become a worry for many people traveling through these intersections as more and more of these window washers have been appearing. It has become a concern after many events that there may be allot of conflict caused by these window washers. An example of conflict is of one man who got out of his car and “smashed over” the window washer when they squirted his car.

This article taught me that Intersection window washers can be dangerous because they may cause conflict or be impeding traffic. Allot of the reported incidents have involved people being “smashed over” or “sworn at”, it is possible …show more content…
To have some random person “walk up” to your car in the middle of an intersection can be quite daunting. Especially for Martin and Roz Williams of Martin Williams who are funeral directors that filed a complaint to the police after a window washer splashed dirty water on the side of their perfectly clean Hearse. I myself have had this happen many times before and it is frustrating when your clear windscreen is splashed with murky water. There has even been times for me where they have splashed the windscreen and not bothered to wipe it. Another article which addresses the problems that intersection window washers cause is “Ban window washers: 'It's a nightmare'
“ written by Kirsty Johnson. It talks about an event where a brawl happened on the street because of the window washer. This event would have caused distress for those around at the time and scared them.

Overall, this text strongly showed that intersection car window washers are not good. I learnt that there has been many cases of conflict caused by them and that the only real way to reduce the number of on street window washes is to fully outlaw the