Roadside Hazards
Roadside Hazards -> Road Hazard List
The following items could present a hazard to road users. (Please feel free to add to the list)
- Materials fallen from vehicles
- Dead animals
- Wet clay and other slippery substances
- Accumulation of dirt or other granular materials on the traffic lane of sealed roads
- Ponding of water
- Fallen trees
- Oil spills
- Stray livestock
- Pavement or Surface Defects
- Potholes
- Deformations
- Edge drops
- Damaged /missing drainage lids, surrounds, grates, in pedestrian areas or traffic lanes
- Tree limbs or trees that are in immediate danger of falling and causing a danger to the public
- Trees, shrubs or grasses that have grown to restrict design sight distance to intersections or restrict viewing of safety signs
- Vegetation intruding within an envelope over roadways from the back of shoulder and/or kerb and a minimum of 4.5m height clearance over pavement and the trafficable portion of shoulders
- Vegetation hazard over pedestrian/bicycle paths, intruding into a clearance envelope between the edges of path and a minimum of 2.0m height clearance over path
- Missing, illegible or damaged safety signs
- A missing or damaged guidepost at a critical location.
- Missing or damaged safety barriers, guard rails and/or fencing at a critical location.
- Vertical Footpath Joint Displacements
- Missing, illegible or confusing pavement markings at a critical location
- An inoperative or confusing traffic signal
- Abandoned or damaged vehicles
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