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Old 01-05-2023, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by VApeople View Post
Even a "four lane highway (with two lanes in each direction and a median in between)" is not safe when people are careless.
I didn't say that four lanes were perfectly safe and that no one has ever been injured or killed on four lane highways. I said that four lanes are safer than two lanes.

A study from the University of Wyoming concluded that "the conversion from two-lane roadways to four lane divided roadways results in a notable reduction in fatal and injury crashes of more than 63% on urban roadways and 45% on rural roadways."

For those interested in the entire study, see below.


https://www.uwyo.edu/ahmed/Papers/20...20Roadways.pdf