My takeaway is seeing how bad Portugese roads seem to be, bit of a free for all, have heard driving there can be a nightmare.
Actually not that surprising as London from my experience has some of the most courteous and patient drivers in comparison to other European cities which I see written down sounds nuts.
Or maybe it just because no one moves no more than 15mph in the city
I find this surprising.
Portugal is Eastern Europe again!
Could also be influenced by the quality of emergency/trauma care?
Good news (well, for London and most of England), but I wonder how the data would look if it was compared to deaths per miles driven per inhabitant. Most Londoners spend less time in cars compared to other regions.
Hiring a car in Italy having always driven in the UK was a bit of a shock to say the least. Pretty unhinged. The French take the word ‘bumper’ much more literally too.
I think accidents in London are less likely to be fatal just because of the slower speed everyone’s going at – often it’s impossible to even get up to the speed limit. I’d be interested in seeing a comparison of insurance claims or just accidents in general. Not convinced that lower fatality rate correlates to more courteous driving in this case.
Countries that drive on the left tend to have better safety records when compared to comparable countries that drive on the right.
There’s no consensus as to why this is.
Considering how bad some London drivers are, this is a little alarming.
I read once that countries that drive on the right tend to have safer roads, but they’re not sure exactly why this is.
Interestingly this is per 100,000 inhabitants rather than 100,000 road users. Given that a lot of people in London have no need to own or use a car this could be somewhat skewed. Plus the average speed of London traffic is around 12mph, which is going to be a contributing factor in reduced fatalities when comparing it to national speed limit roads for example.
Driven through Italy from bottom to top. Mentalists. I said I would never complain about British drivers ever again after those 3 weeks…but, I still do.
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Having been to the Highlands a few times I can confirm it’s the most dangerous place to drive I’ve been in the UK, and I learnt to drive in London.
Data’s six years old, would be interesting to see an updated dataset as I feel that driving standards have really deteriorated over covid
Edit: Though DfT data is available and shows fatalities on UK roads have fallen since 2017 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-provisional-results-2022/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-provisional-results-2022
My takeaway is seeing how bad Portugese roads seem to be, bit of a free for all, have heard driving there can be a nightmare.
Actually not that surprising as London from my experience has some of the most courteous and patient drivers in comparison to other European cities which I see written down sounds nuts.
Or maybe it just because no one moves no more than 15mph in the city
I find this surprising.
Portugal is Eastern Europe again!
Could also be influenced by the quality of emergency/trauma care?
Good news (well, for London and most of England), but I wonder how the data would look if it was compared to deaths per miles driven per inhabitant. Most Londoners spend less time in cars compared to other regions.
Hiring a car in Italy having always driven in the UK was a bit of a shock to say the least. Pretty unhinged. The French take the word ‘bumper’ much more literally too.
I think accidents in London are less likely to be fatal just because of the slower speed everyone’s going at – often it’s impossible to even get up to the speed limit. I’d be interested in seeing a comparison of insurance claims or just accidents in general. Not convinced that lower fatality rate correlates to more courteous driving in this case.
Countries that drive on the left tend to have better safety records when compared to comparable countries that drive on the right.
There’s no consensus as to why this is.
Considering how bad some London drivers are, this is a little alarming.
Now do a map of the dumbest drivers
I’m guessing this is because it’s quite hard to kill people if most of the time you’re doing [under 20 mph..](https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/average-traffic-speeds-1)
I read once that countries that drive on the right tend to have safer roads, but they’re not sure exactly why this is.
Interestingly this is per 100,000 inhabitants rather than 100,000 road users. Given that a lot of people in London have no need to own or use a car this could be somewhat skewed. Plus the average speed of London traffic is around 12mph, which is going to be a contributing factor in reduced fatalities when comparing it to national speed limit roads for example.
Driven through Italy from bottom to top. Mentalists. I said I would never complain about British drivers ever again after those 3 weeks…but, I still do.