Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia USA, reprinted with permission. Despite the demonstrated safety benefits of roundabouts, some crashes still occur. An IIHS study of crashes at 38 roundabouts in Maryland found that four crash types — run-off-road, rear-end, sideswipe, and entering-circulating — accounted for almost all crashes (Mandavilli et el., 2009). Another common…
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Roundabouts (Safety benefits)
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia USA, reprinted with permission. At traditional intersections with stop signs or traffic signals, some of the most common types of crashes are right-angle, left-turn, and head-on collisions. These types of collisions can be severe because vehicles may be traveling through the intersection at high speeds. With roundabouts, these…
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