Drivers Warned: Expect Delays

Drivers Warned: Expect Delays

Drivers are warned to expect hours of traffic misery as the new school year begins. Hours of endless traffic jams are expected to make today’s roads the busiest of the year. Information gathered by the road information service at Tom Tom revealed that holds ups are set to continue until the afternoon.

A report done by the Daily Mail says that on last year’s back to school Monday, there were 1,087 miles of delays across the country between 6am and 9am.

This is in comparison with the average 385 miles of congestion on the average Monday morning. The Daily Mirror report also says that last year there was 297 more road traffic accidents reported than on the average Monday.

A spokesman from Tom Tom told the paper, “The traffic tomorrow is likely to be twice as bad as it would be on a normal Monday, and in the morning it will be nearly three times as bad when there could be long delays on the road.”

With warnings like this it is important that drivers take extra care when on the roads. Here at The Injury Lawyers we would recommend that you give an extra half hour for your journey.

Often when people are late they rush around, which means they aren’t concentrating as much as they normally would. This makes it more likely for road accidents to occur.