The happiest drivers in the country have been announced with motorists in Wales topping the list, a new study reveals.
Motoring experts at LeaseCar.uk have crunched the numbers for each region based on factors which are important to drivers when it comes to having an enjoyable trip.
Highest amount of traffic levels, most amount of roads (miles), total number of collisions and the collective sum of all pothole claims, have all been analysed. Each region was given a nominal score which was totalled up to give a final ranking.
Drivers in Wales have been rated the happiest across the whole of Britain with the least amount of pothole claims, over 21,000 miles of roads and some of the lowest crash and traffic rates across the board.
Closely followed is Scotland with the third happiest drivers across all regions because of the low collision rate combined with the highest amount of roads. This is despite the significantly high pothole claims of almost 3000 in one year, and the rates of congestion.
The only English region to make the top three happiest drivers was the North East, where low traffic levels and the least number of collisions helped the area rank highly.
Motorists in the North West of England have been revealed to be the most unhappy, beating the capital city – largely due to the increasing number of collisions with high pothole claims.
London ranks ninth happiest – with less than 10,000 miles of roads yet over 23,000 collisions each year yet surprisingly ranking third worst for traffic levels in the nation.
Drivers in the West Midlands are the eighth happiest in the country, with the highest number of pothole claims coming from this region – 8900 in just one year.
Yet drivers in the East Mids have some of the lowest pothole damage claims (285), combined with lower collision statistics, means drivers in this area rank fourth happiest.
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