Are you dreaming of a road trip in Europe this summer? Every day, an estimated one billion cars travel the roads. Areas that are sometimes winding or congested by traffic and which require extra vigilance. “The coronavirus pandemic has only encouraged risky driving due to the drop in traffic on the roads”, underlines the insurance company Budget-Direct at the origin of the study.
The accident rates on these European roads were analyzed to establish this classification as well as the weather conditions, the frequentation rate and the design of the roads to best guarantee the safety of motorists.
Route 622 which runs along the northwest coast of Iceland, one of the few Westfjords 4×4 tracks to admire the Dýrafjördur and Arnarfjördur fjords is one of the most dangerous especially because of the extreme weather. The road, popular for a road trip in Iceland, is also completely closed to the public for part of the year due to snow and ice.
Another road deemed dangerous is the A1010 in the United Kingdom which passes through London with a rate of 12.7 accidents per million vehicles, nearly nine times the national average.
What are the most dangerous roads in Europe?
- B12 in Germany
- Hillerød highway in Denmark
- Route 622 in Iceland
- The N59 in Ireland
- The A4 in the Netherlands
- The A54 in Belgium
- The A1010 in the UK
- The A12 in Austria
- The RCEA – RN79- in France
- The Gubrist tunnel in Switzerland
- The road to Arrabassada in Spain
- IC19 in Portugal
- Pic Blanc in Andorra
- Le pont Koroški en Slovénie
- The D512 in Croatia
- M17 motorway in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The serpentine road from Kotor to Cetinje in Montenegro
- The A51 in Italy
- Malta’s coastal road
- The E20 in Sweden
- Highway 26 in Finland
- The Atlantic road in Norway
- The Riga Ring road in Estonia
- A1 in Latvia
- The Vilnius-Kaunas road in Lithuania
- National road No.7 in Poland
- The magisterial route 22 in Serbia
- The mountainous road of Patiopoulo-Perdikaki in Greece
- The E83 in Bulgaria
- DN1 in Romania
The RN79, the most dangerous road in France
Also called the RCEA, the Center-Europe Atlantique route, the RN79 crosses France from east to west. It begins at the entrance to the Mont-Blanc tunnel between Italy and France. Very busy, they have sections with two lanes known to be the scene of approximately twice as many accidents as on a similar road.
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