Top 10 most dangerous roads.

[Sir Black Pig]

Just pulled this from the MCN emagazine, personally I don't know any of these roads and all of the roads in Scotland are blissfully perfect

A new Eurorap report has identified ten roads, nearly all of them in the midlands and north of England, as more dangerous to bikes than any others.

We want to hear from riders who know these roads. What do you think of them? Why are serious or fatal crashes more likely to happen here? Is it something to do with the road itself, rider behaviour, or just the sheer volume of riders who go there?

Here’s the list.

1. A537 Cat and Fiddle
2. A686 Penrith-Haydon Bridge
3. A5012 between A515 and A6
4. A621 between A619 and Totley
5. A54 Buxton to Congleton
6. A5004 Whaley Bridge to Buxton
7. A161 Goole to A18
8. A255 Margate to Ramsgate
9. A40 Llandovery to A479
10. A683 Lancaster to Kirby Lonsdale



Discuss... or linky to MCN site and comments

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Cat and fiddle is more down to idiots than anything, it's heavily policed and is mostly 40 limits now.
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[theopj]

Sounds more like a To do list to me....done most of the peak district ones already though, and doing them during the week they don't seem that dangerous - never ventured up there on a Sunday.
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[AngelGrinder]

Only done one of them, and that's the A40 to A4069 to llandovery.

Good road!

I suspect most of these are down to high number of riders on them more than anything. More people on it, the stupider alot of riders get, and soon a less experienced rider falls off trying to keep up with someone faster.
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[Finglonga]

More of a list where fair weather bikers and idiots are way out of their depth and pay the price.
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[Smooth]

Why not just straighten out and level every road in the country and impose blanket 20mph speed limits?

Let's remove any possible variety in our lives and complete full risk assessments every time we get out of bed.
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[NicM]

From experience of doing the A686 Penrith-Haydon Bridge in a car it's easy to get caught out if you don't know the road as it can be a very quick road.

I keep meaning to go back down and do the route on the bike, just never seem to have the time.
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

I ride 1,5 and 6 regular yet i'd rate them in reverse order for danger. i.e the Cat road (50limit) has just as many open corners as blind corners and only 2 corners with negative camber. Yet the congleton to buxton (50limit) is narrower with lots of hidden dips and corners on hill crests, more junctions, more pubs. The whaley to buxton suffers the most from HGVs, poor surface more tractors and road crap, least runoffs (fields) most corners that tighten on themselves, 2 camber changes in the same corner. Plentiful blind bends.
I'm finding it difficult to be objective on the reasons for the amount of deaths. I'll leave that for others to think about.

Like most roads that are 'known' to the police, they target them when they will have the most effect. So don't go up the C&F on a sunny sunday.

Pat
No average speed cameras have been installed on 1,5 & 6 Yet !
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[JP7]

I'm surprised the A47 between Peterborough and Wisbech isn't in that list, several bikers get killed every year on that damn road.

[damz]

im surprised about the a255 margate to ramsgate being there, i go along it many times most days and cant see it being especially dangerous.
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[Crazy Assed Goose]

Number 2 is the only one I have been on, very fun but not much run off at all should something go wrong, and what little run off there is is down a mountain or into a wall.

It's actually my second favorite road, but can see why it is on there, it also has Hartside top Cafe so loads of bikes use it.

[Digit]

Looks as though they don't know the way to west Wales where I live.
The roads are ok, it's the sheep, Badgers, Foxes and tourists that cause most problems.

Roy.
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[Digit]

Actually I've never come across a road that attacked anyone or received an ASBO.
Locally we have had a Tee junction onto a dual carriageway 'temporarily' blocked off for the last four years as 'dangerous!'
There are thousands of similar junctions around but locally there have been some fatalities and dozens of impacts so the 'do gooders' claim it's dangerous.
The police stated in the local paper it was down to idiot drivers.
The last fatality was a 90yr old man who drove his brand new Mini across the junction in front of a Land Rover.
He did a practise run a fortnight earlier and wrote that car off as well!

Roy.
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