MOTORISTS can greatly reduce their risk of accident by being more selective about the route they take to their destination.

RESEARCH has established that 95% of deaths or serious injuries in road crashes occur on single carriageway roads.

DEATHS on Irish motorways are increasing at the second-highest rate in Europe, while they are dropping in most other countries.

THE country’s most dangerous roads have no special warning signs to alert motorists they are driving on routes with a high accident risk, it has emerged.