![]() There is far less to go wrong all traffic runs in the same direction at largely the same speed and there are no pedestrians, cyclists or mopeds, parked vehicles, T-junctions or roundabouts.īut of course, there’s still lots of bad driving on all motorways. In total, 894 people were killed or seriously injured on motorways in Britain in 2019, representing 3% of all road deaths and serious injuries recorded on the roads in that year. ![]() Lack of motorway driving during the pandemic may have made some people reluctant to return.īy any measure motorways are still the safest roads in the UK. ![]() Meanwhile, only 14% in the IAM survey said they were worried about driving on rural or countryside single carriage way roads, despite the fact that most road related deaths occur on them. Smart motorways (or All-Lane Running motorways) were developed as a way of increasing capacity and reducing congestion by turning the hard shoulder into an extra lane at busy times with the use of overhead signs and variable speed limits, but as we have recently reported, there are still serious worries around smart motorways. Research from our commercial partner road safety charity IAM RoadSmart last year found that, of 1,004 motorists surveyed, 6% of drivers were worried about motorways with a hard shoulder, but 33% of those surveyed reported that they were most worried about driving on smart motorways. And this is in spite of the fact that they are consistently the safest in statistics. ![]() Ask a group of drivers which roads make them most anxious and consistently it’s motorways. ![]()
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