A short stretch of highway near Glasgow is named as Scotland's most dangerous road in a new expert assessment of traffic accidents. An analysis by the Road Safety Foundation reveals that people who use the A726 between Paisley and junction 3 of the M77 are taking their lives in their hands. 
The seven-kilometre road saw 37 fatal or serious collisions between 2000 and 2005, with no improvements over the years. A high proportion of the accidents - 42% - involved pedestrians or cyclists, while 21% saw vehicles leave the road and 11% were head-on crashes. The Road Safety Foundation, a UK charity set up by the Automobile Association in 1986, compared the number of serious accidents and the amount of traffic on major roads across the UK since 2000. Of the 17 found to have the most persistently poor record, two were in Scotland.
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