National roads where it is easiest to get into an accident. View latest map
For the fifth time, scientists have developed a map of the risk of serious injuries in an accident on national roads in Poland. The situation is improving, but still a third of the episodes are those with the highest level of risk.
The map prepared under the EuroRAP program shows the risk of death or severe injuries in a road accident on national roads in 2009-2011. It was developed by scientists from the Gdańsk University of Technology together with experts from the Polish Motor Association and the Foundation for the Development of Civil Engineering.
The greatest number of roads with the lowest safety level is in the following voivodships: Lubelskie, Świętokrzyskie, Warmińsko-Mazurskie and Małopolskie, and the least in the voivodships: Wielkopolskie, Śląskie and Podlaskie - enumerates dr hab. Eng. Kazimierz Jamroz from the Department of Road Engineering at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at GUT.
The following routes are the most dangerous:
- national road No. 7 Lubień - Rabka;
- national road No. 35 Wałbrzych - Świebodzice;
- national road No. 82 Lublin - Łęczna.
The lowest risk of a serious accident occurs on expressways:
- the A1 motorway;
- the A2 motorway.
According to Dr. Jamróz, the most victims are accidents related to pedestrian collision, side and frontal collisions, speeding and young drivers.
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The EuroRAP map presents the risk level on a five-point scale: green color means the lowest risk class (the highest safety level), and black color means the highest risk class (the lowest safety level). Individual risk applies to each road user and is measured by the frequency of fatal and seriously injured accidents on each road section in relation to the number of vehicles that travel through that section.
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The individual risk map on national roads in Poland in 2009-2011 shows that:
- 34 percent lengths of national roads are the black sections with the highest risk level. In the years 2005-2007, when the systematic EuroRAP risk research was started in Poland, they accounted for 60 percent. length. Their number dropped by as much as 4,4 thousand. km;
- 68 percent lengths of national roads are black and red sections, it is about 17 percent. less than in 2005-2007;
- 14 percent length of national roads (9% more than in 2005-2007) meets the criteria of very low and low risk adopted by EuroRAP. These are mainly sections of motorways and dual carriageway expressways.
The individual risk map was developed on the basis of data collected by the police. In the three-year period under study (2009-2011), there were 9,8 thousand road trips on national roads in Poland. serious accidents (i.e. accidents with fatalities or seriously injured) in which 4,3 thousand people died people and 8,4 thous. sustained severe injuries. The material and social costs of these accidents amounted to over PLN 9,8 billion.
Compared to the period 2005-2007, the number of serious accidents on national roads dropped by 23% and the number of fatalities by 28%.
- These favorable changes are undoubtedly the result of investment activities carried out on Polish roads, the introduction of automation of the road traffic supervision system (in 2009 and 2010) and positive changes in the behavior of road users - says Dr. hab. Eng. Kazimierz Jamroz.
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Thirteen critical sections were identified with the greatest potential to reduce fatalities and severe injuries. Most of them occur in the area of the Lubelskie Voivodeship.
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More information, including maps showing the risk of an accident in previous years, can be found on the EuroRAP website: www.eurorap.pl.
(TKO)
Source: EuroRAP program and Gdańsk University of Technology
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