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High-vis potholes could make roads safer
4th March 2010
Car insurance customers could be set to benefit from a new idea from Italy that may help them to spot and avoid potholes.
Students Domenico Diego and Cristina Corradini came up with the Street Safe Initiative, which involves putting a layer of high-visibility asphalt underneath the surface of the road, making cracks and holes easier to see.
The design will be trialled this year in Rho, a town near Milan, to determine its effectiveness and if successful, it will be marketed across Europe.
"We have compared the road surface to the human skin - when we are wounded, we start to bleed," said Mr Diego of Milan Polytechnic.
"So our idea is to put a layer of yellow asphalt beneath the tarmac, which appears and creates a high chromatic contrast that is visible from a distance."
Campaign website Potholes.co.uk recently invited car insurance customers to submit short poems on Twitter detailing the misery they have suffered at the hands of Britain's broken roads.
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