The roads we travel may pose a risk to motorists, or more likely the driver for a safe trip taken. Highway safety experts have a simple, inexpensive and highly effective security measures that can be the difference between a safe driving and another car mean fatality identified. Here are some examples of slow deaths, an organization aimed at reducing motor vehicle deaths and injuries by raising public awareness of issues of security required
Improve safety on narrow roads andBridges save lives
A 23-mile stretch of Highway 46 in California in San Luis Obispo County claimed 29 lives in 19 crashes over a period of five years. More than two thirds involved in frontal collisions. Call Trans, said the California Department of Transportation, rumble strips, raised pavement reflectors and thermoplastic striping on the shoulders and center line. They compared the deaths in the 16 months prior to the improvements, and 16 months was created after the remedy.Fatalities dropped from eight to zero after the improvements. Accidents involving injuries were reduced by 14%, and total collisions declined by 27%.
Rumble strips can be drastically reduced drift-off crashes the road.
Rumble strips are one of the most effective ways to keep drivers on the road. Special rumble strips, equipped with a Sonic Nap Alert Pattern (SNAP), producing a distinct warning sound and vibration measurements, are attentive drivers whose vehicles drift off the roadway. When SNAPStrips were installed on all 506 miles of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1990, drift-off-the-road accidents decreased by 65% per month. SNAP reflective strips and markers are now routinely pocketed Payment installed in all new roadway segments on the highway. The Rumble Strips Turnpike officials credit with reducing the crash rate of 2.3 crashes per million vehicle 100 miles or 100 crashes per year. Since the Turnpike experience was published, rumble strips have become a common fixture inHighways and rural roads throughout the country.
Make streets more user friendly for older drivers
Many roads were not built to today's high-volume serving high-speed traffic. Some roads are more dangerous because the increase in the elderly population of the country. Florida leads the way in the implementation of measures to improve the roadway, particularly on government more and more older people are likely to be a 25% climb from the2020.
In 1992, Florida Elder rolled out its road user program to the needs of the elderly population to be fair. Improvements have been made to roads, including six-inch-wide floor markings for improved visibility, reflective floor markings with 40-foot spacing, large overhead street signs at busy intersections, advance street signs, improvements to pedestrian features at intersections and more emphasis on effective traffic management through work zones. TheResult was a marked decrease in certain types of crashes. These improvements have been in the context of the state of regular road maintenance program.
Improvements at intersections to reduce accidents and injuries.
In cooperation with state and local government institutions have been developed in the AAA Michigan high-crash intersections and make recommendations to improve them. Typical low-cost counter-measures, including adjusting the placement and timing of signal lights, signal modernization Lensesso that it more visible and let the addition of turn signals and turning lanes. At an intersection, the improvements in the number of accidents reduced by 48% and injuries by 70%. Improvements in other high-crash intersections accepted.