Vigo, a city that has opted for the implementation of this type of roundabouts accidents has reduced them drastically.

Roundabouts are, today, one of the places where urban accidents. continuous source of beeps and insults between drivers, this resource so common on our roads could see reduced their claims if they are transformed to new turbo roundabouts, as it has happened in Vigo.

Galician city is one that has most committed to the implementation of the turbo roundabouts since come to our country just over two years ago. Vigo began to renovate some of its roundabouts in late 2015 and since then, accidents have been reduced by up to 43 percent.

Comparing it with data from previous years, the average accident in traditional roundabouts, which have now been converted to turbo roundabouts, was 270 accidents per year (Reaching in 2013 a total of 296 accidents). However, since its inception they have been recorded 159 accidents in them.

What are they and how long they work?

As we said, the turbo roundabouts are relative implementation in our country. His appearance caused a number of critical and skeptical comments on the efficiency of its use, but since 2015 are becoming easier to see. However, this model is quite usual in some European cities and in the Netherlands they circulate them from the 90s.

As for its operation, the turbo roundabouts want to avoid the classic “cuts” we can see every day that we have the classic roundabout closer to our house. The lanes are clearly defined by solid lines that prevent us switch between them within it, so it must be clear where we went from the beginning. Once inside, road markings will direct us to the previously chosen output.

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