A SCOTTISH area has been named the deadliest car crash hotspot in the UK after casualties reached a record level last year across Britain.
The areas with the highest number of smashes have been revealed after the latest Government figures revealed there were almost 3,000 collisions up and down the country in 2023.
The incidents caused a total of 143 deaths, as well as causing a further 4,000 injuries.
And it has caused motoring organisations to call for more radical measures to improve road safety.
Experts at AA have urged the government to implement steps like graduated driving licences, which would drivers given age-dependent restrictions based on the perceived risk of younger drivers.
Now, experts at Agilysis have unveiled what parts of the country see the worst excesses of the tragic problem.
The team used data from the Department for Transport to find out the number of fatal smashes between 2021 and 2023 in each area.
They then compared this with the number of miles the average driver in each area covered.
Nearly 5,000 people were killed on Britain’s roads… with drivers generating more risk of death to other road users than they posed to themselves
Bruce Walton
This was used to generate a rate of deadly crashes for every billion miles travelled.
And it found that the Orkney Islands off the Scottish coast were the worst by far using this metric.
Five fatal collisions were recorded on the islands for just 261 million miles covered.
This resulted in a total of 19.142 deaths per billion miles, which is almost 300 per cent more than the national average.
Argyll and Bute also ranked high on the list, coming in second with 26 fatal crashes and a total of 15.157 deaths per billion miles.
This is 214 per cent higher than the national average.
The top three was finished off with Lambeth in South London with a score of 12.579.
However, the experts said that London would likely have topped the list if it wasn’t broken down into individual local authority areas in government figures.
That being said, other major cities didn’t necessarily factor in, with none of Birmingham, Greater Manchester or Liverpool cracking the top 20 despite their massive driving populations.
London did, though, see the joint highest representation with six of its areas in the top 20.
Other Scottish locations to make the list were the Highlands, Scottish Borders and North Ayrshire.
The Highlands saw a total of 51 fatal smashes with a score of 9.415 which is 95 per cent higher than the national rate.
While the Scottish Borders had a score of 9.172 after recording 21 fatal crashes – which was 90 per cent higher than the national average.
North Ayrshire recorded 13 fatal collisions and had a score of 9.121 which sits higher than the national rate by 89 per cent.
Bruce Walton, technical director at Agilysis, told SunMotors: “Nearly 5,000 people were killed on Britain’s roads over the three years to 2023, with drivers generating more risk of death to other road users than they posed to themselves.
“While 35 per cent of fatalities were drivers, 15 per cent were their passengers and 23 per cent were pedestrians they hit.
“Nearly 20 per cent of deaths were motorcycle users, and a further 6 per cent were pedal cyclists.
“E-scooter use led to at least 28 deaths.”
You can find more details on individual crashes in your area on Agilysis’ CrashMap site.
AIDEN McGEADY has only been retired for a month – but he’s already got plenty to keep him busy.
And the Celtic hero has revealed that he’s tempted to go down one particular route after being asked to do some work for a former Parkhead team-mate.
That man is Shaun Maloney – with the Wigan manager asking him to do some scouting for him.
McGeady, who is also completing his A licence, told the ‘Let’s be Frank’ podcast with Frank McAvennie: “I’ve been quite busy as well, doing odd bits of media, and helping Shaun Maonley at Wigan.
“I’ve been doing a bit of recruitment, kind of part time.
“Going to a watch players and giving my opinion on players is part of football that I’m passionate about and maybe a route I might fancy going down.
“Listen I’ve been busy finishing my A licence and doing lots of different things, I’m doing a course with the FA as well.”
McGeady worked in an unusual dual role at final club Ayr United which saw him combine playing duties with a technical director role.
But he hadn’t featured for the Ayr first team since April – with another Hoops legend in Scott Brown taking the team in another direction.
McGeady said: “It was a strange one. We were mates at Celtic. We got on well and played together for a long time.
“As everything happens in football you lose contact with people then we reconnected at Ayr.
“With Scott, in terms of his playing squad, he wanted certain things from it that I don’t think he thought that I could bring him.
“Quality and stuff was never in question, how I was as a footballer it was more running stats, distance covered in games.
“Everybody is their own man, that is his management style and he wants to go down that route.
“That is how he sees his team playing, it is entirely fine.
“In terms of the other stuff whenever I wanted to do anything, like coaching or taking things after training. There was never any problem with that.
“Listen, it was fine. It didn’t end the way I wanted it to end but football very rarely does.”
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