In 2012, ICBC invested approximately $8 million in road improvement projects and safety studies in nearly 100 communities throughout the province. Since the safer roads program was launched in 1989, ICBC has invested more than $110 million in road improvement projects across B.C.
The most recent evaluation of the program found that two years following a project’s implementation, there is on average, a 20 per cent reduction in severe crashes and a 12 per cent reduction in property damage crashes. And more importantly, the benefits of road improvements continue well beyond two years.