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[article] Roads rated for safety

  • 03-09-2005 9:54pm
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    mike65
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    This caught my eye last Sunday.
    Major roads are to be given official safety ratings to help cut accidents, writes Emma Smith

    British motorists will soon be able to discover how safe the roads they drive on actually are. Under plans being drawn up every major road in the country will be inspected for accident risk and severity and awarded a safety star rating.

    Roads will be assessed on the number of accidents and also on how well they might protect drivers in the event of a crash.

    The move mirrors the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP), which awards safety stars to new cars.

    The project is being implemented by the AA Motoring Trust as part of the European road assessment programme (EuroRAP). It plans to launch a pilot project, part funded by the Highways Agency, later this year and hopes to publish a full list of star ratings — ranging from one star for the worst, to four, the best — for all motorways and trunk roads by 2007.

    The initiative is part of a pan-European campaign to make motoring safer by 2010. The EU is already pushing for black boxes that automatically alert emergency services after a crash to be fitted in all new cars by 2009. When activated, the palm-sized electronic boxes use mobile phone networks to call 112 (the European emergency number) and give details of the location and time of the accident.

    Full article here and the EuroRAP site here

    You can check out the section on Irish roads here

    Example road rating here

    Mike.


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