Utility Pole Safety and Hazard Evaluation Approaches (2020) / Chapter Skim
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34 A utility pole in a high-risk location is defined as one placed in a site within the roadway environment where there is an above-average risk of being struck by an errant motorist and where serious injury or death is a likely outcome of such a collision. It has been estimated that no more than 1/10 of 1% (0.001)
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Identification of Utility Poles in High-Risk Locations 35 Figure 12. High-risk intersection zone (Ivey and Scott 2017)
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36 Utility Pole Safety and Hazard Evaluation Approaches TRB State of the Art Report 9 (Ivey and Scott 2004, pages 18–21) describes a three-path approach to reducing utility pole fatalities, consisting of what are termed the Best Offense, Best Bet, and Best Defense strategies, defined as follows, to address utility pole safety problems: • Best Offense.
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Identification of Utility Poles in High-Risk Locations 37 Figure 15. Examples of high-risk poles too close to the roadway (Photos: Charles Zegeer)
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