This report describes a questionnaire study regarding the safety record of a part of the Dutch A-28 motorway. The questionnaire focused on five short sections of the motorway: four sections selected on the basis of an accident study conducted earlier, and a random control section. The questions can be divided into four main categories: (1) assessment of each road section according to a number of safety-related characteristics; (2) dangerous situations in which the road user had been involved; (3) causal factors of accidents on each road section; and (4) changes required by road users in order to prevent further accidents at each of the road sections. For most of the safety-related characteristics, the road users' assessments of the road sections hardly showed any differences. The number of dangerous situations that were reported were relatively high for two of the road sections. The numbers that were reported for the other two sections did not differ from those for the control section. Almost no single vehicle dangerous situations were reported: in almost all cases there were at least two vehicles involved. In most cases, circumstances and errors that eventually produced the dangerous situation were ascribed to the other road user involved in the situation. Proposals for safety increasing measures at the road sections were mainly infrastructure related. Behavioural changes, with the exception of lower driving speeds, were hardly ever proposed.
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