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A mafter of life and death
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The list of Britain's most dangerous roads has just been updated. But is the real danger more to do with the way other motorists behave than the roads you're on themselves? Dominic Perry reports.
According to figures released this week by the AA Motoring Trust, the campaigning arm of the motoring organisation, the most dangerous road in the whole of the British Isles is the A537 between Macclesfield and Buxton.
This winding Peak District pass, referred to as the Cat and Fiddle after the pub that graces its summit, has witnessed 35 fatal or serious crashes over the last two years Another three Peak District roads make the top 20: the A54 Congleton-Buxton; the A53 Leek-Buxton and the A6 Derby-Buxton. Second place in the AA's list is the A534 from the Welsh border to Nantwich, Cheshire which saw 32 serious casualties. However, the figures reveal that 88% of the accidents on the Cat and Fiddle involved motorcyclists; the consequences of coming off at high speed on a road hemmed-in by drystone walls being all too predictable.
The AA says that most of the roads on the list have a similar set of characteristics such as a lots of bends, roadside obstacles and poorly designed junctions, not to mention drivers travelling too fast.
Roads that have improved their safety records this year include the A134 between Thetford in Norfolk and the A10, topping this list, closely followed by the M73 in Scotland and the A682 in Lancashire.