Evaluation of construction, technical and operational characteristics of roads on safety of road traffic when using it belongs to proactive and reactive tools of every good road manager. The authors of this article point out the safety shortcomings, defects and risks that are most frequently encountered during the road safety inspections in the Czech Republic. The risks of existing but also newly built constructions will be described on the already carried out inspections.
These are the risks, which occur on local roads (suitability of suggested category of road, connection of junctions, psychological priority, view conditions, roundabouts, traffic signs, public transport stops, cycling and pedestrian transport, etc.). Further these are the risks which occur on roads in extravilan (the route and its self-explanation, junctions, railroad crossings, fixed obstacles, traffic signs, view conditions, road drainage, etc.).
At the end of the article there is a statistical evaluation of identified risks with individual percentages. Further there are stated methods of how are the risks found during the safety inspections introduced to the professional public in the Czech Republic. The aim of this article is to highlight the most frequent risks and the necessity of safety inspections for increasing the safety of road traffic.

Safety inspection; road: infrastructure; risks;