I live on a busy road, and there is a traffic collision in front of my house every day.
Traffic collision
A traffic collision, also called a motor vehicle collision (MVC) among other terms, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building. Traffic collisions often result in injury, death, and property damage.
A number of factors contribute to the risk of collision, including vehicle design, speed of operation, road design, road environment, and driver skill, impairment due to alcohol or drugs,
road. State Transit routes 477 and 478 use Taren Point Road. According to a newspaper report in February 2015, there are a total of 56,000 vehicular movements on Taren Point Road every day and the road delivers and accepts an estimated 30,600 vehicles from the Captain Cook Bridge.
Due to busy traffic during the peak periods, when speeds could be as low as 33km/h, upgrades were made on Taren Point Road at key pinchpoints in 2014. Further road changes were announced in 2018, along with extended clearways, in further