Standard of driving in different parts of the UK

[theplayingmantis]

Just back from a few days in Manchester and the north west and found the standard of driving generally in the city to be abysmal and very inconsiderate and not much better further out (worse than south east England and east/west London (Heathrow area especially bad if you take the m25 regularly)). I was also surprised at how busy the roads were north of Manchester up towards the lakes. expected empty a/b roads and motorways but was very busy, just like Essex - guess a lot of you northerners are packed into that corner! had expected it to be on par with the north east, boy was i wrong!

is there any general PH consensus on what areas of the country are poor and those that are better? Done to death on here no doubt but interesting nonetheless.

I thought the standard in the south east and London was crap, but Manchester for me made them look great.

best for me east Scotland around Edinburgh and south west England.

[theplayingmantis]

Also noted a lot of police vehicles (relative to my exposure of them) cruising of an evening when i was popping out both early and late for my run which usually took in (from OT cricket ground) media city and parts of stretford.