Tony Bizjak of the Sacramento Bee had an article in yesterdays paper about road safety measures. Some of the ideas are counter-intuitive but work. These ideas include removing safety devices like stop signs.
Tony writes: "Danger lurks on the road, for sure; but it may not be where we think it is.
Stop signs, for instance, can lead to bad crashes. But a curvy, cliff-side road with no guardrails may have few mishaps.
Why is that? Buckle up as we take an insider's look at road dangers, inspired by author Tom Vanderbilt's new book 'Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us).'
The True Danger Zone
This is no surprise: Intersections are crash magnets. Half of all crashes happen there, including one of the deadliest – the broadside.
How do you cut crashes at intersections? Stop signs and traffic signals are the all-American way.
But they're not a guaranteed defense. Plenty of drivers simply don't obey them.
Most of us assume a green light makes it safe to go through an intersection. So we fail to look both ways before entering. It can be a fatal mistake."
For the rest of the ideas from Tony, go read his article. (By the way, I highly recommend reading Tony every week in the Bee!)
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