Britain's most improved road receives Royal Award
Each year, His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent gives an award for Britain's Most Improved Road.
This year it has gone to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, a Unitary Authority is responsible for Britain’s most significantly improved route - the A161 between England (A18) in North Lincolnshire and junction 36 of the M62 just west of Goole, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The route carries approximately 4,000 vehicles a day had 13 crashes that caused death or serious injury between 2011 and 2013 which reduced significantly to 1 crash between 2014 and 2016. The route has experienced an 92% reduction in fatal and serious crashes between the two periods compared to a 3% increase on the GB EuroRAP network as a whole. This road has become a low risk (green) route in 2014-16 from a high risk (black) route in 2011-13.
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