A54 road

UK road routebox
road= A54
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direction= West-East
start= Chester
destinations= Congleton
end= Buxton
risk= Low-medium, Medium, Medium-high [http://www.eurorap.org/road_lookup?map_type=risk&country=GB&road=a54]
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junctions= The A54 road is a road linking Chester in Cheshire, England with Buxton in Derbyshire. The road follows the route:

*Chester
*Winsford
*Middlewich
*Holmes Chapel
*Congleton
*Buxton

According to a report done by the Road Safety Foundation for the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP), the A54 is one of the most dangerous roads in the UK, second only to the A682 in Lancashire. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6235058.stm "'Most dangerous' roads revealed"] . bbc.com. June 25, 2007.]

Again in 2008 the road was rated as one of the highest risk roads in Great Britain by EuroRAP with a risk rating of Medium to High on its most dangerous stretch between Buxton and Congleton. This 24km stretch of single carriageway road suffered 18 fatal and serious injury accidents between 2003 and 2005, 26% of which were accidents at junctions [ [http://www.eurorap.org/gb2008 "GB Tracking Survey Results"] . EuroRAP. June 30, 2008.]

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