Single Carriageway Roads Found To Be Seven Times More Dangerous Than Motorways.

By | 24/10/2013

Research by the Road Safety Foundation has found that motorists are more likely to be involved in a crash whilst travelling on single carriageway A-roads than on a motorway.

Interestingly, the East Midlands has emerged as the most dangerous region, with the risk of death and serious injury being a shocking 63 per cent higher than the safest region, the neighbouring West Midlands.

Research has also found that crashes taking place on a motorways has cost the country a massive £1.9 billion over the last five years, with a cost of £8.4 billion for those crashes taking place on major A-roads.

To read the full article, please follow the link below:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10400682/Single-carriageway-roads-seven-times-more-dangerous-than-motorways.html

As always: stay safe good people!
Chris

http://www.chrischambers-som.com

https://www.facebook.com/drivingschoolssunderland/posts/649972415043460