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Single-carriageway A-roads deemed riskiest in UK report
Date: 28 October 2013 | Author: Jack Carfrae
A report by the Road Safety Foundation has revealed the greatest risks to drivers on UK roads, citing single-carriageway A-roads as the most dangerous routes.
The research, entitled Measuring to Manage, analysed 44,373km (11%) of UK roads, focusing on motorways and major A-roads, where 51% of accidents are said to take place.
It revealed that 62% of fatal and serious crashes occur on single-carriageway A-roads roads, compared with 15% on mixed single- and dual-carriageways, 12% dual-carriageways and 11% on motorways. It also stated that drivers are seven times more likely to have an accident on an
A-road than on a motorway and that drivers running off the road accounted for 30% of all deaths.
Director of the Road Safety Foundation, Dr Steve Lawson, said: "Most recent improvement in road safety has come from car design and safer driving.
"The specification that authorities currently set road managers is to reduce crash rates in general. That approach is too weak and must be replaced because it muddles factors over which road managers have no control - such as car safety, hospital care and traffic levels - with factors very definitely under their control such as roadside safety barriers or junction layouts.
"Road managers need not only money, but the tools and goals to measure and manage infrastructure safety."
