Road traffic accidents distributed throughout the road network, location of these places are different, they occur in clusters at single sites, along particular sections of road, or scattered across whole residential neighborhoods, especially in areas of social deprivation. While road engineering can greatly help in reducing the frequency and severity of road traffic crashes, poor engineering can contribute to crashes. The road network has an effect on crash risk because it determines how road users perceive their environment and provides instructions for road users, through signs and traffic controls, on what they should be doing. Many traffic management and road safety engineering measures work through their influence on human behavior but the main task for these measures is to reduce dangerous speed up to safe speed. Negative road engineering factors include those where A road defect directly triggers a crash, where some element of the road environment misleads a road user and thereby creates error, or where some feasible physical alteration to the road that would have made the crash less likely has not been made. Purpose of this article is to present the existing situations of the traffic safety in the state roads of Lithuania.
