Enhancing Road Safety During Bad Weather
Making sure you have a properly-crafted crash barrier installed is imperative, but becomes even more so when the weather takes a turn for the worse.
Bad weather makes navigating roads more challenging and hazardous, heavy rain, fog, wind and icy surfaces significantly increase the risk of accidents involving both motorists and pedestrians, making the need for crash barriers all the more important.
Making Roads Safe During Unsafe Weather
Conditions of heavy rain or fog can cause visibility to be severely limited, leading to reduced reaction times for drivers. Safety barriers equipped with reflective materials or lighting increase visibility, enabling motorists to stay on the correct path through delineating lanes and curves, and identify any potential hazards such as sharp turns or icy patches. This increased visibility also deters pedestrians from inadvertently wandering into the road, ensuring that they cross safely at the designated areas.
In these challenging weather conditions, roads can become slippery, making the risk of vehicles losing control and skidding off the road all the more likely, especially during heavy rainfall when water accumulates on the road’s surface, causing tyres to lose contact with the pavement.
Safety barriers act as a protective shield, containing vehicles within their designated lanes and preventing them from colliding with other vehicles, pedestrians or roadside objects. They also prevent pedestrians from crossing the road in unsafe areas by providing a physical separation between the road and footpaths.
Finding Quality Crash Barriers
To prepare roads for inevitable bad weather conditions you need to source the best quality road safety barriers to fit your needs.
It can be a disaster when safety barriers aren’t up to standard, at McIntosh Fencing we not only provide quality safety barriers, but also guard rails, wire ropes and security fencing that are designed and built to the highest standards.
We are dedicated to our work, and know that you need superior service to ensure road safety.
Contact us today to ensure you’re receiving the very best service for making roads safer.