Britain's car crash hotspots revealed - how risky are your town's roads?

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One Sure Insurance analysed Home Office data for 168 areas in 2022
One Sure Insurance analysed Home Office data for 168 areas in 2022

DRIVERS in Doncaster are more likely to have a crash than anywhere else in Britain, figures show.

The accident rate in the South Yorkshire city is 503 per 100,000 people, researchers found.

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Drivers in Doncaster are more likely to have a crash than anywhere else in Britain, figures showCredit: Getty

It is 17 times more dangerous than East Dunbartonshire, which is the safest place with 28 collisions per 100,000.

Second-most dangerous is Rotherham, also South Yorkshire, where the smash rate is 371.

London is third on 261, ahead of Hull (250) and Stockton-on-Tees (247).

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Only three of the safest ten areas — Staffs, Beds and Stoke-on-Trent — are not in Scotland.

One Sure Insurance analysed Home Office data for 168 areas in 2022.

It said: “It’s a legal requirement to insure your vehicle and identifying accident hot spots is very useful.

"By pinpointing them we can try to understand why drivers face challenges there.”

David Jarvis

Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, London, Doncaster, The Sun Newspaper, Road Laws

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