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Bad Road Surface Causes Accidents

Even though there are millions of pounds spent every year on improving the road conditions throughout the UK, there are still numerous accidents that could have been avoided.

Roads are man-made, which means human errors inevitably occur. resulting in design flaws or constructional faults which in turn contribute to numerous accidents every year.

A variety of methods are continually being developed that try to improve road conditions, car safety and technology to help combat unsafe roads and drivers.

Through government sponsored initiatives, community involvement and business development, hopefully the numbers who are injured in road accidents will fall, for both passengers and drivers.

On low risk sites, making up a substantial proportion of the roads, there is a small increase of 5-10% in the risk of a wet skidding accident occurring.

On high stress sites, which make up 10% of the total roads, there is a much larger increase of about 50% in the risk of a wet skidding accident occurring.

Despite record levels of investment by the council in recent years, there is still a need for technologies to be developed by local authorities, to be better equipped with the means, to quantify the risk that these surfaces may pose to the driver and develop strategies to alert them to it.

This will minimise motorists who are claiming compensation from the council for damage caused to their vehicles by potholes and other equally as dangerous road surfaces.

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