Congestion on the UK’s major roads which carry two-thirds of all traffic has increased in the last year according to more than half of the motorists surveyed for the 2017 RAC Report on Motoring .
Fifty-six per cent of the 1,727 drivers questioned for the annual study said they believe traffic has got worse on motorways, high-speed dual carriageways and A-roads – a worrying finding considering that 65%** of all the motor vehicle miles are travelled on them, despite them comprising only 13% of the UK’s road network by length.
Twenty seven per cent of people even say that their car boots are so untidy and unruly that a member of their family or a close friend has commented on the state of them, and despite these revelations, 12.5 per cent of people surveyed sheepishly admitted to never cleaning the boot.
The study of 2,000 people in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, that was commissioned by Velcro and 3GEM to mark the launch of their boot organisers, also unearthed some weird and shocking items that have been found lurking in car boots nationwide, including a life-sized plastic skeleton, a bag of dead fish, a sawfish snout, a stone dragon and, most shockingly, the mother-in-law’s ashes.