Fewer deaths on rural roads – nrc.nl

Fewer deaths on rural roads – nrc.nl

Trucks on the provincial N209 dual carriageway. Photo ANP / BAS CZERWINSKI

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Dutch roads have become safer over the past decade. In 2003, there are 249 people in accidents on these roads. Ten years later, in 2013, there were hundreds, reports the Foundation for Road Safety Research, SWOV.

Although the roads cover only six per cent of the road network, finds a quarter of all accidents on this called N-roads. The ANWB says in a report that the roads are generally well managed and maintained. However, a combination of a high speed limits and obstacles along the way, it is not suitable to handle high traffic safely on track.

‘Obstacles’ to be addressed

That Over the past decade, still fewer fatal accidents have happened on the roads is, according to the SWOV because provinces addressing the “obstacles” along the roads. Fewer trees along the N-roads and guardrails along the mostly unpaved shoulder.

More money

In the run up to the election round on Wednesday made the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) today known that the Dutch provinces this year to spend more money on the construction and maintenance of roads

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