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The United States ranks worst in road safety compared to 28 other high-income countries (Source: CDC). Our traffic fatality rate is 50% higher than comparable nations in Western Europe, Canada, Japan, and Australia (Source: WHO).
Why is our country falling behind in road safety? One major reason is how we are building and designing roads.
Using the Safe Systems approach, other developed nations have been able to drastically reduce their traffic deaths by designing roads to be forgiving of predictable human mistakes. .For more information on Safe Systems, click here (Source: USDOT).
No one is perfect. We all make mistakes. That will never change. But those mistakes do not have to result in a death or serious injury. Street design which prioritizes safety and accounts for predictable mistakes can save lives..
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