The most dangerous roads across a swathe of Hampshire have been revealed by CrashMap.
The interactive website details thousands of incidents ranging from slight, serious to fatal since the turn of the Millennium, pinpointing the the road where each crash took place and how many vehicles were involved.
The data is taken from official government statistics from records submitted by the police.
According to the official CrashMap website, a total of 48 fatalities on Hampshire roads were recorded from 2010 to 2020.
The road with the highest number of deaths is a stretch of the dual carriageway A303 south and west of Andover with six deaths. The number does not included the three drivers killed by an alleged drug driver last month.
There are four roads which have each seen four fatalities in the same period. They are Bullington Cross, just off the A303 and the A272 near Winchester has also seen four deaths on the stretch from the A31 near Morn Hill to Cheesefoot Head.
The Avenue in Southampton have all accounted to four deaths in the past decade.
The A3057 in Romsey made up three fatalities since 2010.
Over 13,000 road incidents deemed serious but not fatal were recorded in 2010 in Hampshire, with CrashMap's records showing Leigh Road in Eastleigh, Southampton Road in Fareham, the M3 running between Otterbourne and Shawford and Archers Road in Southampton being most dangerous, with more than 30 serious incidents occurring on each road.
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Since 2010, 3,000 serious incidents in Hampshire involved cyclists, while over 10,000 were motor vehicles and over 2,000 were pedestrian casualties.
The Department for Transport revealed 1,752 road deaths in the UK in 2019, similar to the level recorded since 2012.
Fatal and serious road traffic accidents dropped by more than a fifth across the country during the coronavirus pandemic, but 49 people lost their lives due to Hampshire collisions in 2020.
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