Roundabouts are a wonderful road safety feature to reduce the severity of crashes at intersections. Vehicles have to slow down to navigate the roundabout, so when mistakes happen (which they will) the crashes are lower severity.
In a 2003 study, Beer K, Hall K, and Szwed N analysed signalised and roundabout controlled intersections across Melbourne. They discovered that while roundabouts had slightly more crashes per vehicle through the intersection, the number of fatal and serious injuries was dramatically lower at roundabouts.
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