White lines are more effective at reducing road crashes than speed cameras, saving up to eight times as many lives, according to new research from the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP).
Ireland is on the cusp of a massive increase in the deployment of speed cameras, which typically lead to a 10 percent fall in head-on incidents, side impacts at junctions, collisions with trees and lampposts and accidents involving cyclists or pedestrians hit by cars.
But the EuroRAP research suggests that dedicated lanes for turning right or left cut side impacts by up to 80 percent. Anti-skid surfaces can lead to a 65 percent improvement, while new signs can reduce crashes by up to 40 percent and renewing road markings cuts them by up to 35 percent. BB.
