Road users often have a choice of taking a major road route – a motorway or dual carriageway A road for instance – or a minor route to their destination, one that takes in B and C roads and, for those with knowledge of the region, which may mean time saving The choice is one we all make as there are usually more than a couple of ways of getting from A to B, but the question is this: statistically, which are safer – major roads, or less populated minor road routes