Deaths on UK’s major road network reach eight-year high

Deaths on the UK’s Strategic Road Network (SRN) have reached an eight-year high, according to the latest official figures.
Newly published data from Highways England - which operates the country’s motorways and major A roads - show there were 250 fatalities on its Strategic Road Network in 2018 (the most recent year for which data is available), up from 236 in 2017, and the highest figure on record since 2009, when 255 people died on the network.Safest cars for sale in the UK 2020Hig