Where are the UK's safest and most dangerous roads?

To find out, this articles uses analysed data from the Department for Transport, looking at all casualties on UK roads over the last five years. We then split this data out by local authority area, to find the safest and most dangerous regions in the country.

There were 131,369 reported casualties on UK roads over the past 5 years. Splitting this out by road users, car drivers and passengers were the largest group, with 48,963 casualties, followed by pedestrians with 29,517. Meanwhile, there were 28,671 reported casualties involving motorcyclists and 18,237 involving cyclists.

The majority of road accidents involve people aged between 24 and 55 years old, with 60,119 casualties reported over the past 5 years - 46% of all recorded casualties. There was also quite a considerable gender split in the data, with 69% of all reported accidents involving men, compared to just 31% involving women.

Over 50% of casualties on the road occur at speeds of just 21 - 30 mph, with T-junctions being the most dangerous type of junction, with 37,133 reported casualties over the past 5 years.

Where are the safest and most dangerous regions in the UK?

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