WHY ICY ROADS ARE SAFER

A table, compiled from government figures for 1983, shows that icy roads are safer than dry or wet roads, both during the day and at night. The most spectacular difference is in accidents that occur at night on roads which have a speed limit of 50 miles/hour or more, including motorways. On these roads one in every 17 accidents is fatal when the roads are dry, but when the the roads are icy only one in 15 results in fatalities. Death rates are much higher when speed limits are high. Those figures agree with Swedish accident figures for the early 1960s. (TRRL)

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• Publication Date: 1986-2-13

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 15
• Serial:
  • NEW SCIENTIST
  • Volume: 109
  • Issue Number: 1495
  • Publisher: REED BUSINESS INFORMATION LTD
  • ISSN: 0262-4079

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash severity; Crashes; Days; Ice; Night; Speed limits; Statistics
• ITRD Terms: 1612: Accident rate; 2567: Black ice; 1602: Fatality; 5408: Speed; 6555: Statistics; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00466552
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 31 1988 12:00AM