Dailies: 60 percent of Czech roads high-risk

Czech dailies Lidové noviny and Mladá fronta Dnes have reported that sixty percent of roads in the Czech Republic are high-risk, based on statistics on traffic accidents between the years 2003-2005. The project, part of the European Road Assessment Programme, takes the form of a map highlighting traffic density as well as accident frequency in areas. Most high-risk routes are primary roads. Multi-lane routes, meanwhile, have been assessed as the safest. Statistically, some of the most dangerous routes in the country include a road connecting Prague with nearby Kladno, as well as a route from Prague to Mělník, north of the capital. The map did not focus on the situation in the capital city.