The UK road network should be designed to be safer and the government should ensure drivers can use a "five star" road system, a safety organisation has claimed.

RoadSafe has called for the government to improve the safety of UK roads and has launched the Campaign for Safe Road Design this week.

Van insurance customers may be interested to know that the launch coincides with the publication of a report, Getting Ahead, which recommends that the UK should have "self-explaining" roads that reduce the likelihood of driver error and "forgiving" roads that provide pedestrian refuges and collapsible roadside poles.

RoadSafe director Adrian Walsh said: "Five-star vehicles are increasingly being driven as more fleets are implementing best practice occupational road risk management now we want five-star roads."

In related news, the Times reports that details of the most dangerous roads in Britain will be programmed into a satellite navigation device to warn drivers when they are approaching them.

EuroRAP, or the European Road Assessment Programme, is negotiating with several manufacturers to allow them to use its road risk map, which was published last week.