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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Top 10 Most Dangerous Drives in the UK


With the UK’s increasingly congested road system accidents are inevitable, but which roads offer the safest journey; Single lane A road’s, dual carriage ways or 3-4 lane motorways – the answer to this question may surprise you.

Focussing on the top 10 most dangerous A roads in the UK, ranked by accidents per km stretch of road, the following make the top 10 (information sourced and adapted from a survey by the Road Safety Foundation):
Road No. Description Road Length (km) No. of Serious /Fatal Collisions Junctions Involving Pedestrians /Cyclists Number of Accidents Per km
A537 Macclesfield – Buxton 12 27 22 4 2.25
A255 Margate – Ramsgate 8 18 22 61 2.25
A62 M62 J27 – A6110 5 9 44 0 1.80
A621 A619 – Totley 9 12 42 0 1.33
A675 M65 J3 – Bolton 13 17 18 6 1.31
A5004 Whaley Bridge – Buxton 12 15 20 0 1.25
A285 A27 – Petworth 19 18 22 6 0.95
A5012 A515 – A6 15 14 21 14 0.93
A54 Congleton – Buxton 24 20 15 20 0.83
A686 Penrith – Haydon Bridge 8 35 14 6 0.60

Road crashes currently cost the country around £18bn each year, the high cost coming from the deployment of emergency services and post-crash healthcare. Yet a large percentage of this could be saved by instigating a few simple measures on the worst offending road stretches.

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