Europe’s national safety strategies show that safer road design and layout would do the most in the direction of reducing the rate of serious injury and death, especially in countries where messages concerning safer vehicles and better driver behavior are generally understood and accepted, such as my country of origin. Well-documented experience in Europe and elsewhere shows that formal systematic safety audit procedures are a demonstrably effective and cost-beneficial tool to improve road safety. Procedures should enable skills of road safety engineering and accident analysis to be used for the prevention of accidents on new or modified roads. In addition, procedures that can help assess the accident potential and safety performance of roads can and should be integrated in all phases of road planning, design, operation and inspection. Good roads and their proper design enforce desired traffic behavior by assisting the task of driving and offer an environment that is adapted more easily and efficiently to the limitations of human capacity. In this video an example of a treatment of a high risk infrastructure site, also known as “black spot” is presented to you. The measures that were proposed and implemented in this 1,5 km road which links Lakatamia town with Deftera village in Nicosia district in Cyprus were highly cost effective, easy to apply and quick to be implemented and in this video they are presented by contrasting the Before and After digitally processed photos of the site. Finally this video is a short quite on how easy is to change road’s bad conditions and to transform them to safer and user friendly in a effort to save human lives.



