A poorly designed or marked road can be just as dangerous, like an unconscious truck driver after 20 hours of uninterrupted driving.
Every year on Polish roads in 50 thousand. of accidents is almost lost 6 thousand. people. Excessive speed, alcohol, breaking road rules – the policemen are exchanging. Statistics are silent about it, how many accidents are caused by bad marking, improper road design, or structural defects of the pavement. At the very end of the police statistics, you can find a column on the causes of accidents: "hitting a bump, hump, hole ". Last year, the police recorded only such accidents 57! Three people died in them, a 66 were injured.
“Statistics don't lie. A poorly profiled road is unlikely to be the cause of an accident, because there are very few such places "
Perhaps a poorly constructed or designed road is a "silent killer"? Drivers from Silesia know Siewierz in the Katowice district. “Roadside assistance is always there, when its raining, because you know, that on a slippery road people will fly into ditches " . “Unofficially it is said, that this asphalt has bad properties ".
According to the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways, the roads are perfect.
“There are no badly built roads in Poland, and those that were, have been repaired a long time ago ". What is the procedure for checking a newly built road? “The road is controlled at every stage of the construction process. At the beginning, the stiffening of the substructure is checked, then the quality of the asphalt used. Exact testing of the samples is done in the laboratory. The next stage, when the road is built, is to check the strength of the substrate. On the way there is a car with a special cart, who by pressing on the asphalt shows the strength of the pavement on the computer screen. It works in a similar way, whether the road is even – the car is pulling something like a spirit level and you can see it on the computer screen, has the surface been evenly laid ".
Despite the excellent theoretical preparation of the builders, Polish roads are in bad condition. In years 80. are prepared for a maximum axle load of 8 your. Today, routes are new or undergoing general renovation, are built with this technology- they have to keep the pressure 11,5 tons per axle. According to experts, however, there are only such roads in Poland 3%! This is how they are to be designed, among others. Polish highways. Unfortunately, it's just a theory again. This is best known to drivers who drive the Konin-Poznań motorway, which was opened less than two years ago. In the Konin section–In September, numerous cracks appeared after a few months.
Jarek had an unpleasant adventure, lawyer from Poznań. “We rode the local section of the highway. At one point we heard a terrible bang, and our Toyota almost took to the air. We stood, turned out, that concrete slabs have risen on the road. Two alloy wheels can only be replaced " – he remembers upset.
About that, how roads are renovated in Poland, Truck drivers know best. One of them is Łukasz Szwed from Olsztyn: “When a road is renovated, immediately a tonnage limiting mark appears on it, who can move on this road " – says the driver. “If they had let go of normal traffic, under the warranty, the company would have to repair such a road all the time. ”Because in fact, the ruts are the worst in Poland.