For the price of a pot of paint, lives could be saved on many of the Britain’s roads, according to the AA. Annual research tracking the safety standards on Britain’s roads shows that, in seven out of ten cases, simply improving road markings was all that was needed to make some of the country’s most notoriously dangerous highways safer. Improvements result in fatal and serious crashes being cut by more than a half. “Lives are being saved by one of the cheapest measures in the road engineer’s toolbox: simple white lines,” according to Paul Watters, AA Head of Roads Policy. “Each year, the UK’s 10 most improved roads are tracked by the Road Safety Foundation. Major projects, such as building bypasses and turning stretches of road from single to dual carriageway, are among the more costly measures to reduce fatal and serious collisions. More