With the amount of travel on the road throughout the year, any measure that helps reduce accidents. Most of them are generally dissuasive (we have all the radars, whether fixed or mobile), But there is also with another very different objective: Check our brain.
These measures are visual, very fashionable in the world, as our Xataka companions say. Here in Europe, there are fairly interesting attempts, such as green lines on the road or those known as “Dragon Dent”. The last of these attempts is being tested in Andalusia And the idea is as simple as visual: Paint a huge red line on the road. We tell you why this line and what it involves for us.
A red line that makes its debut in a section with many accidents
As we said a little above, this red line was released in Andalusia, More specifically in the A-355 that Marbella connects with Cártama. This is a section through which around 20,000 daily vehicles pass and have a high accident concentration rate, so any measure that helps reduce its good news.
So what is this red line for? As we can see in the following image, the line in question is between the two traffic lanes and is a red color that attracts a lot of attention. This line only supports line continues which prohibit exceeding in this section. Simple said: Is there to underline the prohibition to progress.
Before the Department of Development of the Junta of Andalucía and the DGT painted this line, which was a continuous line as we can find on any other road. Come back to the idea of deceiving our brain, The red line divides its usefulness into two different points: On the one hand, it seems that the way is a little narrower, which leads us to instinctively reduce speed; On the other hand, being much more visible, highlights the idea of the continuous line.
How does that affect us? In practice, this new red line is identical to all the continuous lines that we find on the roads. This means that it is forbidden to advance in these areas under penalty of fine and loss of points, Although there are some exceptions. We can only exceed it if we plan a immobilized vehicle, if we plan a moped of less than 50 cc, an animal traction vehicle or a pedestrian. Of course: each time we leave 1.5 meters of separation and there is no danger for the rest of the vehicles.
It is more than likely that we will not see this measurement on more Spanish roads, as well as others such as painted circles for motorists in Catalonia. We will take the time to see if this visual measure is able to reduce road accidents, although most of the previous attempts have obtained it.
Image | Ministry of Development of the Junta of Andalucía
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