PlayBritain’s A-roads have been revealed to be more dangerous than motorways despite two in five drivers believing the contrary.
The A537 from Macclesfield to Buxton, otherwise known as the ‘Cat and Fiddle’ has been named Britain’s most dangerous road with figures showing that for every billion kilometres travelled along this route there have been 250 fatal or serious accidents.
The road has been given a black (high) risk rating by EuroRAP – Europe’s leading authority on road safety, meaning you are up to 30 times more likely to be killed or injured on this stretch of road than on a lower risk (green) category road – the category into which 76 per cent of Britain’s motorways fall.
Working in conjunction with EuroRAP, ITV’s Police Camera Action have analysed Britain’s main roads by compiling the number of serious injuries against the volume of traffic. Using this information Police Camera Action will exclusively reveal the most dangerous road in each of the ten regions covered by the study - all of which are single lane A roads.
Forty percent of drivers asked in a recent survey by EuroRAP said that they believed motorways or dual carriageways to be Britain’s most dangerous type of road when, in reality, statistics show that drivers are three times more likely to be killed on a rural road than any other type of road.
The M621 (J2 to 2a) in West Yorkshire is named as Britain’s most dangerous motorway however even this does not make it in to the top spot in the region. EuroRAP state that the average risk rate (risk ratings equate to the number of fatal and serious collisions per billion vehicle kilometres travelled) for A roads is 53.04 while in contrast the average for motorways is 11.06.
