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The Highways Agency says road signs need to be replaced by bendy ones because they're injuring motorists who collide with them. In 2002 there were 39 people killed hitting signs or traffic signals, 294 were seriously injured and 1167 were slightly injured on all the UK's roads. Usually there are safety barriers erected at the side of the road if the sign is deemed at risk, so the injuries are sustained hitting the barrier. There were 50 such fatalities in 2002. But the new 'passive safe signposts', which are available for motorways and trunk roads across the UK, bend or break when hit. They are equipped with a hinge at their feet, which makes them collapse at the point of impact. They cause less injury to motorists and less damage to vehicles, says the agency, and tests showed they cause less injury than the safety barriers...
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