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Other problems include departures from standard in alignment, lack of visual references in a wide open environment, and clusters of accidents around single-lane dualling sections. Measures to counteract these problems include: two-way traffic signs, extensions to central hatching strips, double white lines, and marker posts. 32 Copyright © ICE Publishing, all rights reserved. Road Safety Auditing TD 9/93: Highway Link Design & There is an increase in accidents with gradients over 4%. IHT: Road Safety Audit Guidelines, 1990 & Accidents tend to increase with degree of curvature, with 430 m being critical in rural areas.
Accident rates are higher where substandard horizontal curvature coincides with vertical crests or sags. & The rate of increase of accidents related to traffic volume becomes less as the number of lanes increase. 65 m. 0 m are associated with increased accident rates. 0 m wide should be avoided for safety reasons. 2 Urban road links The following section looks at accidents in urban areas away from junctions where vulnerable road users are over-represented in accidents. Road Casualties Great Britain 2006 & The accident rate for urban ‘A’ roads is 62 accidents per 100 million vehicle kilometres (60 for ‘other’ roads).
Overall, there was no clear evidence of a difference in pedestrian casualty risk at stand-alone crossings and signal-controlled junctions. & The severity ratio, particularly at the junction crossings, reinforced the view that there is potential danger to pedestrians from faster-moving vehicles. Puffin Good Practice Guide, DfT, July 2006 This Guide gives advice on the design of puffin pedestrian crossings. It is believed that accidents should reduce as a result of the introduction of puffin facilities, but there is currently insufficient accident data available to verify this.