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A new survey in Britain that one in seven drivers has to take evasive action because of their own risky overtaking. The road safety charity Brake out the survey on 1,000 motorists. It that 80 per cent of drivers have felt by other people overtaking, while 94 per cent of drivers said they have dangerous overtaking. It said the biggest perpetrators of dangerous overtaking are young men aged 17-24. In comparison, women drivers far safer. The poll that while 39 per cent of 17-24-year-old male drivers admitted overtaking when they were not sure the road ahead clear, the figure for female drivers doing so just 15 per cent.

The charity also that the most dangerous place to was on single-lane country roads. Drivers are twice as likely to die on rural roads than they are in urban areas. Many of these deaths preventable. A spokeswoman from Brake said: "We're all drivers to overtaking on country roads unless absolutely essential and 100 per cent safe." She : "Why risk it and rush? You could a devastating, high-speed, head-on crash that ends lives and others. In spite of this, a significant minority are still the risk and performing this aggressive and selfish manoeuvre…In those situations, cool-headed and responsible drivers hang back and ."