A high standard of road safety requires a good interaction between people, vehicles and traffic environment. This presentation is devoted to experience gleaned from road accidents involving collisions with selected objects in the traffic environment. The report shows that a significant proportion of these collisions, which caused serious personal injury, were with objects off the actual road. Trees and heavy lamp posts are the type of object involved in most of these cases of personal injury. In addition, the report includes many accidents in which significant injury was caused by road rails/pedestrian pass rails, which from a traffic safety point of view were unfavourably designed. In all new road constructions, as well as when revising traffic systems, the objective should be to attain a high standard of safety with regard to road environment. Exclusive use of energy-absorbing posts and other safe types of road furniture would significantly increase the overall standard of road safety. (No further information apart from this abstract is published in the proceedings).
Samenvatting