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Over-embankment Accidents on Rural 2-lane Conventional Highways

by Robert L. Moore ยท 1998

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Page count: 22

This report identifies factors which might be related to vehicles going over the roadway embankment, locations of over-embankment accidents, and roadway/roadside characteristics where these accidents occur. Recommendations which might reduce the potential for over-embankment accidents are provided. The scope of this research was limited to rural 2-lane conventional highways. Countermeasures that might reduce the potential for over-embankment accidents in general include installing new guardrail, lengthening existing guardrail, extending embankment guardrail near cut-slope areas and burying guardrail into the cut-slope, providing additional signing and striping, improving the shoulder, installing rumble strips, installing audible edge stripes, or cleaning up the roadside environment to provide a clear recovery area.