For example: when it’s a country that drives on the left and you’re driving up to the boarder that switches, what happens. Do you just switch sides? Do the boardering areas have an increase of crashes?
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Typically a bridge/overpass that re-routes traffic onto the correct side:
ie: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong–Zhuhai–Macau_Bridge
https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2013-04-15/lotus-bridge-macau-maphead-ken-jennings
On the Laos-Thailand ‘Friendship Bridge’ border crossing, the two road lanes simply cross over each other with traffic lights controlling the flow.
At the Pakistan-China border, between the two border stations, there’s a little blue sign on the side of the road that simply states to switch to the other side at precisely that point. You’re going slow enough that you just switch lanes. No fuss.
Sometimes there are bridges.
A lot of them are low traffic roads, so you just drive to the other side. There’s usually some sort of border checkpoint so traffic will stop anyway.
There are significantly more head-on crashes near ferry ports.
Also near hotels, because people forget overnight (especially the first night), and are too dumb to put a Post-It “Drive On The Left” on the dashboard.
I had a very near miss with an American on a Harley way out in Scotland. It was a single track road with passing places. I pulled over left to give him the road, and he pulled right at the same time. Took four people to get the Harley out of the peat bog.
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