A new survey has found that Londoners cause more accidents on country roads than their rural counterparts. But are sophisticated urbanites really more reckless drivers?

YES: Rural roads are a deathtrap

Picture this: It’s five o’clock on a December afternoon, completely pitch black, and a giant Rangerover comes hurtling round the corner, right wheel just inching over the white dividing line. You just about manage to pull in to avoid being totalled by two tons of metal, scratching up the side of your car on an overgrown hedgerow in the process.

You’ve survived the Rangerover, but there’s an endless obstacle course to get through before you reach your destination: Bridges too narrow to let two cars pass at the same time, deer in the road, sheep in the road, 17-year-old drivers who’ve just passed their test and 80-year-old drivers who need to take it again.

You’ll face long waits for roadworks you can’t take the back roads to avoid – because here, there are only back roads – a lack of streetlights, walkers on the side of the road, and an ambling tractor which doesn’t turn off for two........

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