page_title: A453 road
section_title: Safety
hierarchical_section_title: A453 road / Safety
caption_attribution_description: English: Flyover and Ramp This single lane ramp allows city-bound traffic on the A453 to avoid the roundabout at the junction of Queens Drive and Clifton Boulevard.
context_page_description: The A453 road was formerly the main trunk road connecting the English cities of Nottingham and Birmingham. However, the middle section of this mainly single-carriageway road has largely been downgraded to B roads or unclassified roads following the construction of the parallel M42-A42 link around 1990. The M42 was originally meant to pass further north than it does, and to join the M1 at Sandiacre in Derbyshire. The M42/A42 does not enter Derbyshire, but instead joins the M1 closer to the A453 junction at Kegworth. The A42 shadows the former A453 from Appleby Magna to Castle Donington. The road historically connected the East Midlands with the West Midlands.
context_section_description: In 1989, British Midlands plane crashed between the M1 and A453, killing a dozen people. It was going to land at the East Midlands airport, located only a few metres away.. No vehicles were destroyed but some of the street lights were damaged. 
  In June 2008 the Road Safety Foundation announced that a 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) single carriageway stretch of the A453 between the A38 and Tamworth was the most improved road for fatal and serious injury accidents.  With an 88% reduction in crashes resulting in death and disabling injuries was rated as Green by the Foundation.  Staffordshire County Council have undertaken a number of measures to upgrade the road including traffic lights, speed limit reduction, village gateway treatment, central islands and improved pedestrian facilities.  These resulted in a reduction in fatal and serious collisions from 8 in 2001-3 to 1 in 2004-6.
caption: Flyover at the A52 in Lenton
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