In this video, it’s hard to tell exactly what’s happened. Let’s give the driver the benefit of the doubt and hypothesise that they identified the queuing vehicles too late and made a choice to avoid a rear-end collision with the queue.
This scenario highlights an important consideration for Road Safety Auditors: ensuring adequate sight distance to the back of queues. While this is a very important factor for permanent features like traffic signals or pedestrian crossings, it’s even more crucial for temporary traffic management, where the road environment may not give drivers/riders clear clues that queuing traffic may be ahead.
Temporary traffic management brings together challenges in engineering, human factors, and regulation, making it one of the most complex areas of road safety. But complexity is no excuse – whether you’re an engineer, auditor, Safe System Assessor, regulator, or contractor, we all have a role to play in designing and implementing systems that keep road workers and road users safe.
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