Research shows that drivers are most confident when driving on the very roads that a EuroRAP study and national statistics show to be the least safe - single carriageway A-roads.

In the AA/Populus survey, 65% said they felt confident driving on A-roads whereas fewer (60%) said they felt confident driving on motorways, which are the safest roads.

“EuroRAP’s important work informs Britain’s drivers of where the real dangers lie and must lead to action to prevent unnecessary deaths and injuries through road improvements and also by instilling greater driver awareness of the risks they run on different types of road,” said the AA’s head of roads policy Paul Watters.