1. Interdisciplinary teams Existing or new roadway
Improve safety
Interdisciplinary teams
Existing or new roadway
Planning
Construction
Design
ID problem elements
ID opportunities

2. Road Safety Audit Objectives
to identify potential safety problems for all road users and others affected by a road project and
to ensure that measures to eliminate or reduce the problem are considered fully.

3. Road Safety Audit and Risk Management
Although discussed as separate items, they are clearly related
Audits provide an assessment of the relative safety performance of scheme options and identify specific safety needs of various road users. They also may highlight the need to re-design other nearby road or traffic projects to safely accommodate changes in traffic.

4. Risk Management goal
To identify, quantify, and control exposure to tort liability a risk management program must
Recognize and anticipate the degree of legal risk inherent in all of programs, procedures, or actions;
Ensure that available resources are used to minimize risk and prevent loss
Prepare a timely, defensive response for actual or threatened legal actions; and
Manage claims to result in proper resolution while achieving economy

5. Team quals:
Crash investigation
Traffic engineering
Road design
Enforcement
Maintenance
EMS
Human factors
Background info
Plans, volumes, crash data

7. Safety Audit: General Elements
location being studied,
type of facility,
type of traffic control,
history of problems or crashes, and
reason for the study.

8. Condition Diagram
Intersections: Identify by name, type of pavement (if applicable) and width of street
Traffic Control Devices (signs, signals and pavement markings)
Pavement Markings: Centerline, Passing Zones, Auxiliary Markings, Stop Bars, Crosswalks
Signs: All signs within the right-of-way, including non-MUTCD signs, sign sizes
Pavement and shoulder widths and any surface irregularities in the drawing or text
Speed limits on all approaches in drawing or text

9. Conditon diagram (continued)
Driveways: Identify type of pavement of drive (concrete, asphalt, grass, gravel ), and
use (residential or commercial)
Curb: Identify type of curb, height, etc.
Median: Identify type of median (grass, concrete, asphalt, etc.) and width
Cross corner sight distance at intersection or driveway with crashes in diagram or text
Bridges and Culvert if involved in accident
Other items that may be a contributing factor

10. Conditon diagram – additonal if appropriate
Show evidence of parking within R/W if any
Utility Poles / anchors
Guardrail: Include distance from edge of pavement, height, type of end treatment
Fire Hydrants
Highway lighting
Trees and other vegetation, If contributing factor to the crash problem
Roadside features: steep grades, ditch locations along roadside

11. COLLISION DIAGRAMS
Schematic drawing that has been compiled from a series of individual crash reports relative to a specific location (intersection or section), which shows
the direction of the vehicles travel prior to contact,
pedestrians whose presence contributed to a collision.
a minimum of three years of latest crash data

12. COLLISION DIAGRAMS (continued)
Each crash should include the following information as a minimum:
date,
time,
pavement conditions
Collision types (rear end, sideswipe, turning, etc)
fault, should also be shown (i.e. injury, intoxicated, ran stop sign or red light, etc.).

13. Crash Analysis
The crash analysis procedures include the study and analysis of crash characteristics of a site.
Characteristics such as crash type, severity, contributing factors, environmental conditions, and time period data are analyzed.
Detailed analysis of these characteristics are conducted to identify safety problems and their possible causes.
Analysis tools may include histograms, critical rate assessments, other statistical analysis, and professional assessment

14. Modification Recommendations
Condition diagrams, collision diagrams and analysis summaries provide the base for potential improvements. Recommended improvements will require additional analyses to assess the potential benefits of potential improvements (crash reduction factors) and the return on investments.