{"id":1277,"date":"2013-10-24T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T11:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2013-10-24T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T12:02:51","slug":"single-carriageway-roads-found-to-be-seven-times-more-dangerous-than-motorways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/single-carriageway-roads-found-to-be-seven-times-more-dangerous-than-motorways\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Carriageway Roads Found To Be Seven Times More Dangerous Than Motorways."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research by the Road Safety Foundation has found that motorists\u00a0are more likely to be involved in a crash whilst travelling on single carriageway A-roads than on a motorway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the\u00a0East 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.<\/p>\n<p>Research has also found that crashes taking place on a motorways has cost the country a massive \u00a31.9 billion over the last five years, with a cost of \u00a38.4 billion for those crashes taking place on major A-roads.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please follow the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegraph News Article Link.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/road-and-rail-transport\/10400682\/Single-carriageway-roads-seven-times-more-dangerous-than-motorways.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/road-and-rail-transport\/10400682\/Single-carriageway-roads-seven-times-more-dangerous-than-motorways.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always: stay safe good people!<br \/>\nChris<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Official Website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook Post Link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drivingschoolssunderland\/posts\/649972415043460\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drivingschoolssunderland\/posts\/649972415043460<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research by the Road Safety Foundation has found that motorists\u00a0are more likely to be involved in a crash whilst travelling on single carriageway A-roads than on a motorway. Interestingly, the\u00a0East 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[10,11,12,39,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,40,20,42,43,21,22,41,38,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}