A54 road

A54 road
A54 road near Buxton in Derbyshire
Direction	West-East
Start	Chester
Primary destinations1	Congleton
End	Buxton
Roads joined
Risk Rating	Low-medium, Medium, Medium-high[1]
Notes Primary destinations as specified by the Department for Transport.

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.^[1]

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 24 km stretch of single carriageway road suffered 18 fatal and serious injury accidents between 2003 and 2005, 26% of which were accidents at junctions^[2]

See also

• Cat and Fiddle Road

References

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