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When it comes to car safety Sweden has a pretty good reputation. And it’s based in fact. Sweden has one of the world’s lowest rates of traffic fatalities - only 2.8 deaths for every 100,000 people.

As Swedish society became motorized fatalities quickly began to rise. The number of deaths on the roads more than doubled between 1950 and 1970. One of the reasons was the majority of cars were left-hand drive imports being driven on the left-hand side of the road.

It means the driver is closer to the curb and further away from the center of the road, which makes overtaking much harder, as the driver can’t see around the car in front, something which makes head-on collisions much more likely. But on September 3rd 1967 the Swedish Government made a big change in the name of safety. Sweden decides to switch from left to right!

The country changed to driving on the right side of the road. Its traffic infrastructure was completely revamped in just one day. That included changing 360 000 road signs.

Understandably, safety was a huge focus. The Government created a special team to make sure the changeover went without incident. Speed limits in urban areas were reduced. Outside of towns they were introduced where previously they hadn’t existed. ‘H Day’, for högertrafik, Swedish for ‘right traffic’ even had its very own song. There were plenty of other every day reminders too like these helpful glasses or H Day underwear.

How many road signs did Sweden change?

360 000

100 000

36 000