Route ‘UK’s most dangerous road’
A picturesque route through the Peak District has been proven a headache for car insurers after it was named Britain's most dangerous road.
ITV programme Police Camera Action said the A537 Macclesfield to Buxton road topped the risk list for accidents.
The programme worked with the European road safety organisation EuroRAP to analyse main roads by compiling the number of serious injuries against the volume of traffic.
The single-lane A537, known as the "Cat and Fiddle", has had 250 fatal or serious accidents and countless car insurance claims attributed to it for every billion kilometres travelled on it.
Most of Britain’s roads (75%) are in the lower risk, or green, category of safety. EuroRAP has given the A537 a black (high) risk rating, meaning you are up to 30 times more likely to be killed or injured on that stretch of road than a green road.
Police Camera Action said 40% of drivers surveyed by EuroRAP believed motorways or dual carriageways to be Britain's most dangerous types 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.
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