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45 Studies of Individual Treatments, Past and Present Fox, Good, and Joubert (1979) found that poles placed at the curb in Australia are three times more likely to be struck compared to those located 10 feet from the travel lane.
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46 Utility Pole Safety and Hazard Evaluation Approaches injuries. In terms of the part of the vehicle impacted in fixed-object crashes, the front of the vehicle collided first in about 65% of crashes, compared to 24% of crashes involving a side-impact.
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Current Countermeasure Practices 47 • Poles should be eliminated on traffic islands, in medians, and across from T-intersections. Alternative safety structures should be used on poles that cannot be moved.
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48 Utility Pole Safety and Hazard Evaluation Approaches be lurking at intersections or lane drops. Poles in traffic islands or at the top of a T-intersection (Figure 17)
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Current Countermeasure Practices 49 Strategy 5. Improve the driver's ability to see the utility poles at high-risk locations.
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50 Utility Pole Safety and Hazard Evaluation Approaches is cost-effective primarily along roadways where (1) the poles are very close to the roadway (e.g., 2 feet from the travel lane)
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Current Countermeasure Practices 51 Strategy 9. Relocate poles along a corridor further from the road, to less vulnerable locations, or both.
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52 Utility Pole Safety and Hazard Evaluation Approaches in other parts of Canada) , with the El Esawey and Sayed (2012)
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Current Countermeasure Practices 53 horizontal curve or on a grade. Carrigan and Ray (2017)
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