Bedford Driving Lessons

Two-thirds of England’s 1,600 km of single carriageway trunk roads win only a two-star rating according to a report by the Road Safety Foundation. The Road Safety Foundation has inspected 95% of the 7,000 km Highways Agency (HA) network in England, and safety rated it to an international star rating system being applied worldwide as part of a new approach to make road infrastructure safer. The European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP) Road Protection Score is a scale for rating roads on how well the design protects users from death or disabling injury when a crash occurs. Its sister programme, EuroNCAP, similarly measures the crash protection provided by new cars. Four stars is the highest rating in the scale and motorways without deficiencies achieve this. Of the HA’s network, 50% of motorways reach four-star level, 78% of dual carriageways rate three-stars but two thirds of single carriageway trunk roads achieve only a two-star rating. Dr Joanne Hill, director of the Road Safety Foundation, said: “Our assessment of trunk roads considers three key elements: the protection provided if vehicles run off the road; the risk of head-on collisions; and the safety of junctions. “Motorways are our safest roads, scoring well on two of these factors but half do not protect road users who, for whatever reason, run off the road. More