When asked "what road safety investments would save the most lives over the next 10 years - safer cars, safer drivers or safer roads?" an average of 60 per cent believe that safer drivers would yield the best results.
We asked almost 2,000 people across Europe what they think is the cost of a single serious crash. More than half believe the cost to be significantly lower than the true cost, with more than 60% of those questioned estimating the costs to be less than half the real cost.
When motorists in nine European countries were asked what factors affected their choice of route, journey time (21.7 per cent), and traffic congestion (21.2 per cent) were of most concern while fuel, toll and congestion costs and crash risk were of least concern.
The public in nine European countries was asked which of five road-accident types cause the most deaths. Most people said head-ons, while 22% blamed run-offs.
EuroRAP questioned people across about which road type they believed was the most dangerous. But people in five out of the nine countries surveyed did not know single carriageways are the most dangerous.
