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Fatalities recorded in the Road Network of the Autonomous Community is halved in the last two years, from 62 deaths in 2007, 30 in 2009

The Ministry of Public Works and Planning, through the Highways Agency is carrying out the works to improve road safety on the road RM-D16, which connects the town of Puerto Lumbreras in the hamlet of La Station -Esparragal, and involve the removal of a Tranche accident concentration.

"At the point where the works are being carried out is the intersection with the way the gun, which communicates with many farms and livestock, so that improvements will result in increased road safety for both residents and residents area, as for other drivers, "said Director of Roads, Jose Guijarro.

Guijarro said, "This road registered almost two million vehicles a year, so it is a priority that performance will increase road safety and give greater fluidity of movement."

The works being carried out, and who have an investment of 298,100 euros, include the construction of a roundabout full of 30 feet in diameter inside and 41 outside diameter, and an adequate drainage system.

The roadway will have one lane of 5.5 meters wide and have shoulders of a meter.

After the roundabout will be installed runway lighting and signage for both horizontal and vertical, and a new lighting system, which, said the CEO, "will provide the money and improve visibility of the crossing that had previously existed also reducing nighttime accidents. "

Half of victims in the past two years

Jose Guijarro stressed that the regional government carries out this action within the signaling steps and elimination of those points of risk or tranches accident concentration, and "under the firm intention to continue reducing the accident rate."

In this regard, reported that in the past two years we have halved the number of fatalities recorded in the Road Network of the Autonomous Community, "from 62 deaths in 2007 to 30 in 2009, a decrease of 52 percent. "

Finally, the Director General of Highways said that the Community of Murcia was the first in Spain to mark and remove the road sections identified as black spots, "a pioneering initiative in our country that aims to improve road safety and contribute they are increasingly fewer people lose their lives on the road. "

Source: CARM