Britain's motorways are unsafe, says report

A European study into the safety of England's trunk road network has found that half of the country's motorways fail to meet the expected international safety standards.

Despite having the UK having one of the lowest fatality rates in the world, the report, conducted by the Road Safety Foundation, found that two-thirds of single carriageways only rate 2-stars while 78 per cent of the dual carriageway network rated 3-stars.

The star rating system is a new approach by authorities to make road infrastructure safer. The Road Protection Score is determined by how well the design of a road protects users from death or injury in the event of an accident.