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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post
How many thousands of cars drive that road every single hour with no issue whatsoever.

OK, even if it is a tricky road, how many cars and trucks drive that road in a year? One crash per month but with two lanes in each direction, it must me a lot of traffic on the road.

One crash per month is a lot, maybe they need to lower the speed limit. What is the speed limit there now?

Bottom line, any driver that can't keep the car in the lane needs to hand in their driver's license for a while and take some driving training.
I'd actually expect high traffic in some ways to mostly mitigate the issues that Wayne brought up. If you've got 100 cars nose to tail, as long as most of them are paying attention, the others will probably mostly just follow those that are paying attention.

If there's a design issue with the road as Wayne mentioned, and if a tired, inattentive driver is on the road with no other traffic in a situation with low visibility (dark, heavy rain, etc...) then in that situation, that solitary driver is more likely to get caught off guard by the design issue because they don't have other headlights, tail lights, etc... to cue from as an indication that they should veer left or stay right.
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