DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

A study carried out by the International Road Assessment Program (iRAP), a road safety rating agency, reveals the high chances of being involved in a traffic accident resulting in death or serious injury when driving on the three main highways in the Dominican Republic. Chances are greater on the Southern Corridor (78%), followed by the Northern Corridor (74%), and least on the Eastern Corridor (40%), reports the feature in Diario Libre published on 25 July 2022.

The study “Information Gathering for the Evaluation of the Three Road Corridors Under the iRAP Methodology” was carried out in March 2021 by technicians specialized in road evaluation of the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), the Ministry of Public Works with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United Nations (UN).

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