The feeling of being safe when driving cannot be understated. However the amount spent on road safety varies hugely city to city. Statistics provided by the Department of Transport have revealed how much each city really spends on safety, and the results will surprise you.

Firstly, let’s look at how safe the roads that you drive on everyday really are. See the graph on the right to find out how your city compares to the other top 10 (based on population size).

With the worst ranking of the top 10 cities is Cornwall, with 36-44 year olds involved in the most collisions of any age group. Cornwall only just edged in front of Leeds, Bradford and Liverpool, who all had 32 collisions for every 10,000 inhabitants last year. Surprisingly, the 26-35 year old age group were involved the most collisions in all of those cities.

With only 25 collisions per 10,000 people, Bristol has the lowest number out of the top 10 cities. Bristol also has a fantastic record with young drivers, with only five 16-20 injured in a collision last year. However, they also have the highest amount of male casualties when compared to female (with 3.4 males being injured in a collision for every 1 female). Bristol was closely followed by Sheffield (26), County Durham, Manchester and London (27).

London has done extremely well in the rankings, considering they have the longest road length of all of the top 10 (9,271 miles). To find out which city has the most injuries compared to distance travelled, see the graph below (Ed - apologies but you will need to zoom in to view properly).

London has the worst ration with 121 injuries, six more than Liverpool who, again, are in second place. Although Liverpool has fared badly in both sets of results so far, they actually have the lowest difference between male and female injuries, with 1.96 males involved in a collision to every 1 female.

County Durham has the best results out of the top 10, with 53 injuries for every million miles travelled by its residents, closely followed by Cornwall with 54 and Leeds finishing off the top 3 with 61.

Surprisingly Birmingham’s inhabitants were involved in 91 incidents resulting in injury last year. A high count, considering they spent a huge £32m on road safety last year. See the graph below for a full list of road safety spend last. Are you happy with how much your city spends?

You would expect a connection between amount spent on road safety and how many injuries there are. Yet it’s London who spent the most, with a total of £64m, nearly double that of Birmingham in second place. However more people are injured per mile in London than any other city in the top 10.

When breaking London’s total spend into districts, you can see that Camden alone spent a colossal £11m in 2013 on road safety, which is made even more extreme when you consider they only have 177 miles of road (£66,445 a mile). The district with the lowest road length is the City of London, with 36 miles. However, they also spent a huge £717,009 on road safety in 2013 (£19,917 a mile). At the other end of the scale is Ealing, spending £8,997 last year (only £25 a mile).

Out of all of the top 10 cities, it’s Birmingham who spent the most per mile on road safety last year. With a spend of £32.5m on 1,577 miles of road, Birmingham spent £20,620 a mile.

So what do you make of this? If your city was featured, are you happy with how much was spent, or do you think that more can be done to make sure driving is as safe as it can be?

Let us know in the comments.

Jordan Sulc is from Alternative Route Finance.