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Development of Road Segment Safety Improvements <br />After roadway segments were prioritized using the risk-based scoring as described above, the results <br />were reviewed and the list was shortened so the plan could focus on the segments that would see the <br />most benefit from safety improvements and eliminated erroneous results or locations reflecting <br />outdated information. <br />Road segments with a score of So or lower were removed from consideration. Road segments that <br />were within the scope of current improvement projects or recently completed improvement projects <br />were also removed. Each accident report was examined for further details regarding the incident to <br />further identify contributing factors, driver actions, alcohol or drug Influence, Intersection related, and <br />any countermeasures already in place. The list of candidate locations was further reduced by <br />eliminating roadway segments where accidents were alcohol or drug related with no hazard at the site <br />and segments where countermeasures were already In place and or where no countermeasures would <br />have prevented the accident. <br />The remaining roadway segments were then evaluated for potential safety improvements. Safety <br />Improvements that emerged from this evaluation included guardrail installation, signing, and additional <br />delineation at spot locations to prevent run off the road accidents, and various intersection <br />Improvement projects. <br />Additionally the County has Identified a need to address copious amounts of inadequate bridge railing. <br />There are a total of 268 bridge structures within Kittitas County, many of which have insufficient railing <br />or no railing at all, Because these observed hazards have a high potential for serious injury or fatal <br />accidents, Kittitas County has chosen to be proactive and include these locations in this safety plan to <br />prevent predicted future crashes. This preventative, systemic, risk-based approach Is supported using <br />the FHWA Systematic Safety Project Selection Tool criteria, which states that a site can be Identified as a <br />candidate for safety investment if It has multiple riskfactors but no crash history. <br />Finally Kittitas County recognized a need to collect data to support a clear zone Inventory for the entire <br />county road system. The effort to identify hazards within clear zone for the purposes of creating this <br />safety plan included utilization of a variety of tools, Including Mobility, Google Earth, RoadVlewer, and <br />field visits. Future safety improvement projects could be better identified using a more thorough dear <br />zone inventory targeting known hazard locations. For this reason a planning project has been identified <br />