Safety efforts are underway to address deadly crashes on rural roads in Kansas. People may hear a lot about crashes in urban areas, usually when people try to cross the street, but hundreds of thousands of crashes take place on rural roads in the U.S. every year. In Kansas, it’s something Tod Salfrank, who oversees several local project units at the Kansas Dept. of Transportation, said they’re working hard to prevent. “Here in Kansas we have a large percentage, of crashes, fatal and disabling crashes that occur on the local road system,” Salfrank said. In 2018, there were nearly 65,000 traffic crashes in the state; 365 were fatal. People driving on rural roads face the same risk. The state announced in May that $8.5 million would go to 16 counties in the state to address crashes on rural roads in high-risk areas.
Source: KSNT News
