RTSSC Research Reports
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Title:	Rural Local Road Crashes: System Diagnosis and Countermeasures
Publication Date:	Apr 2013
Type:	Issue Brief

Abstract

Local rural road travel has the highest injury crash incidence in North Dakota. These roads are typically narrow two-lane roads with limited or no shoulder, and often unpaved surfaces that account for 1 in 5 rural travel miles beyond the interstate system. Local roads accounted for nearly half of serious crashes between 2006 and 2010 with injury crash risk about 3 times greater than on the state’s heavily traveled rural principal arterial roads.