non-fatal in Mascot

I posted September 2007, eleven months ago, a deadly wreck at Mascot, the intersection of Stumptown and Newport roads. Notice the memorial cross on right edge of pic, beside first cop to arrive. Last week I rather soberly trudged off again, camera in hand. Happily, it was a fender bender.

Second police car arriving at left; cars in accident center and right.

If you are going southwest on Newport at speeds excessive of normal, this is a blind intersection. Could the township put up a sign to make this safer? Yes. Would it cost society more than it will cost to fix this fender bender? No. Is this sane?

How does it happen than one person dies and another walks away?