Roadside Memorials Sites

Metal Memorials designs manufactures custom metal memorials and road side crosses markers. Metal memorials was founded to help families in what is one of the toughest times in their lives. It is common practice here in the southwest to have wooden roadside crosses to mark the location of the last place the person was alive on this Earth. Grant was a young man in his mid 20's. He was lost in a...

But apart from their personal significance, these memorials also serve as a reminder and warning to other road users of the dangers of driving, and to encourage safer driving. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Arizona State Highway Patrol began using white crosses to mark the site of fatal car accidents. This practice was continued by families of road-crash victims after it had been abandoned by the...