BERKSHIRE has placed seventh most safe place to drive in a road safety report conducted by an insurance comparison website.
Data analysed by quotezone.co.uk included the number of road casualties, and number and severity of crashes, and ranked 168 districts based on a combination of these factors.
The county came 48th for road casualties with 132 per million people, 40 fewer than the average across all areas.
Berkshire has half of the the average number of road collisions for all of the places studied, at just 243 per 100,000 registered vehicles.
The report also considered the severity of the crashes, counting the average number of casualties per vehicle.
The county is also 5% lower than the average for casualties per vehicle, with a rate of 0.66.A rate of 0.66 means that for every 100 vehicles involved in a collision in Berkshire, 66 people suffer injuries.
When analysed as a whole, the data collected by quotezone.co.uk placed the county seventh overall for driver safety.
The rankings showed that eight of the ten worst districts for number of casualties are in London.
South Wales was shown to be among the safest place to drive, with Swansea, Cardiff, and Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot all coming in the top five.
