Two major challenges with vehicle-to-vehicle crashes at traffic signals are impact speed and impact angle.
Reducing the likelihood of crashes is always important, but it is not our only role. Signalised intersections rely on perfect human behaviour. People will inevitably make mistakes and sometimes run the red light.
Our responsibility is to make sure those mistakes do not translate into crash forces that are unsurvivable. That means designing and managing intersections so that when the inevitable happens, the outcomes are survivable.
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