East Dunbartonshire road in top 10 most hazardous in Scotland

The stretch of the main A879 road through East Dunbartonshire has been ranked 8th most dangerous in the country after an investigation by JPIMedia.

There were 33 accidents causing casualties per mile on this road between 2014 to 2018.

The most hazardous in Scotland was the A900 through the City of Edinburgh with 84.5 casualties per mile.

Our investigation unit discovered that in the five years from January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2018, there were more than 670,000 accidents 
causing injury or death on Britain’s roads.

According to the figures for 2018, there were more than 300 accidents causing death or injury on Britain’s roads each day and there were an average of 439 casualties per day.

These serious road accidents were most likely to happen with a male driver; with a driver aged 26 to 35, on a 
Friday, between 5pm and 6pm and on an A-road.

A spokesperson for road safety charity Brake said there needs to be “greater investment in road traffic enforcement so that people who drive dangerously and break the law, are caught and punished”.

A Transport Scotland spokesperson said: “We remain committed to working with our road safety partners to deliver a co-ordinated approach to road safety to secure the ultimate vision established in Scotland’s Road Safety Framework to 2020 and beyond, where no one is killed on our roads.”

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