Ohio's High Risk Rural Roads Program tries to make rural roads safer
Photographer: WEWS
Posted: 02/03/2012
CLEVELAND - Ohio's High Risk Rural Roads is a federal funding provision for safety improvement projects on High Risk Rural Roads Program (HRRRP). It was established in the 2005 Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU).
The program was initiated because America’s rural roads are the most dangerous in the nation, with almost two-thirds of fatalities occurring on rural roads. Fatalities are 2.75 times higher on rural roads than on other roads.
A High Risk Rural Road is a rural road that either has a crash rate for fatalities and incapacitating injuries that exceeds the statewide average.
Locally, CR 191 which runs through Bellevue leads the list of dangerous rural roads with 44 injury crashes but fortunately no fatalities.
For more information on Ohio's High Risk Rural Roads, visit:
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/divisions/Planning/programmgt/programmanagement/pages/highriskruralroads.aspx
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