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Northern Britain and Scotland roads more unsafe claims report

Jonathan Winston Jonathan Winston
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A report by a leading road safety charity has said that in Scotland and Northern England people are more likely to be involved in a road accident as they have the most dangerous roads.

The Road Safety Foundation claims that the report, entitled Saving Lives for Less, covered 28,000 miles of A-roads and motorways and showed that the A537 between Macclesfield, Cheshire and Derbyshire was the most dangerous road in Britain. The charity calls for targeted government spending to go towards improving the most dangerous roads claiming that this would save money currently being spent on the emergency services and hospitals.

The report revealed that single roads carry six times the risk of motorways and twice that of dual carriageways and one in four fatal or serious crashes on A-roads or motorways involves a motorcyclist.

Dr Joanne Hill, director of the Road Safety Foundation said: “Not only can Britain reduce road deaths and serious injuries but, by targeting a relatively small mileage of high-risk roads, we can do so with good economic returns. Too often we pay for emergency services, hospitals and care for the disabled rather than taking easy steps to put road design faults right."

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