The guide Traitement des obstacles latéraux (Managing side obstacles) presents the knowledge and know-how on safety developments minimising bodily consequences when vehicles leave the road accidentally.

The document concerns the main roads located in open country, primarily improvement of the existing network, but it is also useful for constructing a new infrastructure.

Written for persons in charge of managing, improving, or designing roads, it allows appreciating the level of safety of a road’s shoulders, proposing corrective and preventive solutions, which are appropriate and effective, and prioritised according to stakes and constraints.

This document is designed to be used by any authoritymanaging road networks.