City has high rate of crashes
The Herald|January 15, 2024
PLYMOUTH has been named among the top five cities in the UK for the proportion of road collisions which involve alcohol or drugs.
ANDY PHILLIPS
City has high rate of crashes

A new study of data from the Department of Transport between 2012 to 2021 and local authority figures between 2013 to 2022 shows that Plymouth had the fourth-highest proportion of crashes involving intoxicating substances.

Some 8.5% of collisions in Plymouth involved drugs or alcohol, according to the information. It was only behind the Midlands cities of Wolverhampton (9.4%), Leicester (8.8%) and Coventry (also 8.8%). Wrexham, in Wales, had the same proportion of crashes as Plymouth at 8.5%, but was rated fifth on the list.

The top five – including Plymouth – all came out more than three times the national average, which was calculated as 2.4% of accidents.

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