Bridge Time & Distance Safely!

Bridges form crucial parts of roads. Bridges come wherever a road passes across lakes, canals, ridges, valleys, rivers, river-lets and so on. Bridges become essential for connecting the roads. Some bridges are built by wood where as others by steel and concrete. While some bridges are big and broad, most of bridges in suburban areas and countryside tend to be narrow. There is no scope for creating median in roads, which run within the bridge. Therefore, it is very essential that the drivers are very cautious when they enter the bridge, as well as when they pass through the bridge and when they leave the bridge.

Overtaking while passing through the bridge is very risky as the road-width could be narrow. Suitable caution boards that should be displayed prominently on the roadside to attract the attention of the drivers and other road users are generally unavailable or not noticeable. The drivers tend to drive fast even when they are approaching a bridge, drive rashly through the bridge ant drive out from the bridges at high speed. Bridges are yet another area where accidents are prone to happen.

The same thing applies to tunnels where the drivers have to be more caution. Tunnels are generally narrow, dark and offer no visibility. So it is important for drivers to be extremely cautions. Since the tunnels are mostly bored through rocky mountains any collision inside the tunnel could be disastrous and fatal as the impact with the rock wall s are very high.

Same is the problem in the case of flyovers which are built with in the cities to prevent traffic congestion and on the highways to enable the free flow of traffic. In certain cities of the world the concrete flyovers run for long distances and at certain locations, the broad multilane flyovers cross a number of other flyovers. Unless and until signboards and caution boards are prominently displayed and the direction boards are erected in proper places drivers tend to make mistakes, which will result in accidents.