A672 officially classed ‘high risk’
Date published: 30 June 2010
A ROAD-safety group has labelled part of an Oldham trunk road as high risk in a new report.
The Road-Safety Foundation (RSF) highlighted a four kilometre section of the A672 Ripponden Road, between Sholver and Denshaw.
The accident blackspot claimed four lives last year and the total number of accidents has doubled since 2005.
Last September, Oldham Council installed anti-skid surfacing, new signs and more drainage gullies at Besom Hill in a bid to make the road safer.
To compile their report, the RSF compared the number of accidents resulting in death or serious injury on roads with how much traffic it carried.
An RSF spokeswoman said the A672 was more sensitive to accidents because it had a low volume of traffic.
The report also revealed that as many as 10 per cent of Britain’s motorways and A–roads presented an unacceptably high risk to drivers, with half of all crashes occurring on just one tenth of Britain’s road network.
Most of the higher–risk roads were in the North–West and Yorkshire, and the most persistently dangerous road was the A573 between Macclesfield in Cheshire and Buxton in Derbyshire.
