Utilities and Roadside Safety (2004) / Chapter Skim
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7Professionalism Jarvis Michie Collectively, vehicle–pole collisions represent an annual cost to society of $5 billion.Individually, these tragedies seldom make the headlines, but nationwide they farexceed the annual 285 commercial airline crash fatalities and media-documented events such as the TWA Flight 800 crash. It has recently been estimated that the societal loss due to collisions with utility poles each month is greater than the 5-year societal loss due to the Bridgestone/Ford alleged problem (1)
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38 Utilities and Roadside Safety road right-of-way, which resulted in many poles being located within a few feet of the traveled way and many roads being located within a few feet of existing utility poles. After 1966, highway agencies began incorporating the "forgiving roadside" concept into new and existing highways by removing or converting fixed objects to safer designs and making the roadside more traversable for errant vehicles.
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roadside concept. Additional funding mechanisms can be established to relocate and shield utility poles that become hazardous because of changing traffic patterns or roadway geometrics.
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