Britain's Most Dangerous Roads

The most persistently highest risk road in the UK is the A254 between Margate and Ramsgate in Kent. The A254 isn't the only dangerous A road in the UK. In fact according to the Dangerous Roads 2018 map all of Britain's top ten most dangerous roads are A roads.

On average every day 73 people were killed or seriously injured on Britain’s roads. during 2018. You can see where Britain's most dangerous roads are on the Dangerous Roads interactive map. The map uses a simple green to red color scheme to rate the risk level of the country's roads. The map also uses smiling and frowning map markers to indicate roads which have improved since last year and roads which have been persistently high risk.

The risk level ratings for the map come from the Road Safety Foundation. After reading the Road Safety Foundation's report on their ratings for 2018 I still have no idea on the methodology used for assigning the risk level for each road.


You can view another assessment of the UK's most dangerous roads on the Most Dangerous Roads in Britain map. This map is a little clearer on the methodology used for rating the safety of individual roads. This interactive map of dangerous roads shows the UK roads with the highest accident rate. These are the roads with the highest ratio of accidents to the amount of traffic.

According to the map the top 13 most dangerous roads in the UK are all in London. But it is isn't just London's roads which are potential death traps. In 2017 1,792 deaths were recorded in road traffic accidents in the UK, this was 4 per cent higher than the previous year.

Using the Most Dangerous Roads in Britain map you can view the top 50 most dangerous roads (ranked in order in the map side-panel) or you can view the most dangerous road in each UK region. The map shows the UK roads with the highest accident rate. These are the roads with the highest ratio of accidents to the amount of traffic.The data for the map comes from the Department for Transport and covers ten years of road use from 2007-2016.