There’s no doubt that London can be a pretty stressful, dangerous place to drive. All those cars, all clamouring to get where they need to as fast as possible? Yeah, it’s a bit of a choc-a-bloc traffic nightmare.
The rest of the UK also has plenty of pretty dangerous places to drive, too. But where is the most dangerous place, London not included? To find out, insurance brokers OneSureInsurance dug into historical stats from the Department for Transport to find out which non-London UK areas were the most dicey.
Blackpool was revealed as the most dangerous place to drive in the UK outside of the capital. The seaside resort town had the highest average number of collisions per billion vehicle miles (1,113 collisions) from 2012 to 2021.
Second place went to Hull (950 collisions), followed by Luton (911 collisions). All of these were much higher than the overall UK average number of collisions per billion vehicle miles, which was 550.
A spokesperson for OneSureInsurance said: ‘While many might have expected figures to be lower in 2020 and 2021 due to ongoing lockdowns and thus fewer cars on the road, in some areas, this isn’t even the case, with some areas even having their highest figures yet in that timeframe. The top ten contains areas from every corner of the country, which highlights how road safety should be paramount, no matter where you are in the UK.’
Here are the top five most dangerous places to drive in the UK outside London, according to the OneSureInsurance survey.
- Blackpool
- Hull
- Luton
- Brighton and Hove
- Southampton
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