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From 2016 through 2018, there were more than 19,200 vehicles in the United States involved in opposite direction crashes that resulted in a fatality. Approximately 68 percent of these crashes occurred on two-lane roadways.

The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 995: Guidelines for Treatments to Mitigate Opposite Direction Crashes provides state departments of transportation (DOTs) practitioners and other transportation professionals with comprehensive guidelines for the selection of cost effective countermeasures to address opposite direction crashes.

Supplemental to the report is a guidance document for selecting countermeasures.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Guidelines for Treatments to Mitigate Opposite Direction Crashes. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26586.

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42 pages |  8.5 x 11 |  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26586
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Front Matter i-viii
Chapter 1 - Introduction 1-3
Chapter 2 - Crash Conditions and Selecting Countermeasures 4-6
Chapter 3 - Keeping Vehicles in Their Lanes 7-19
Chapter 4 - Reduce Likelihood of Head-On Crashes 20-29
Chapter 5 - Reducing Severity of Crash 30-32
References 33-34
Abbreviations and Acronyms 35-38

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