Ever found you’ve missed your exit? Now panicking about where to go? Wondering how long will the detour take?
Well, the data analysts at Quotezone.co.uk have crunched the numbers and can reveal the UK’s worst motorway junctions to take a wrong turn.
Detours do not only add to the additional mileage and cost of fuel, but it’s the extra time on the road and stress of finding the next junction to correct your course that get to most people.
The number one on our list is the famous M25, or aka ‘The Road to Hell’ per hit song by Chris Rea. This is especially true if you miss your southbound exit on the M26 and accidentally end up on this ‘road to hell’… because you’ll have to travel for another 18 miles on the M25 before you can correct your course.
Here is a list of the top 10 UK’s worst motorway junctions to take a wrong turn. Do you live near any of them? Do you have a similar experience that you could share?
Motorway | Area | Junction | Junction | Distance (Miles) | Detour (Miles) | Litres | Cost* | Time (In Minutes) | |
1 |
M26 / M25 | Kent | J2A | J6 |
18 |
36 |
2.77 |
£3.44 |
31 |
2 |
M11 | Cambridge | J10 | J8 |
17.5 |
35 |
2.68 |
£3.33 |
30 |
3 |
M6 | Lancashire | J32 | J33 |
13 |
26 |
2 |
£2.48 |
22 |
4 |
M74 | Glasgow | J14 | J15 |
13 |
26 |
2 |
£2.48 |
22 |
5 |
M20 | Maidstone | J8 | J9 |
13 |
26 |
2 |
£2.48 |
22 |
6 |
M4 | Chippenham | J16 | J17 |
12 |
24 |
1.86 |
£2.31 |
20 |
7 |
M1 | Northampton | J14 | J15 |
12 |
24 |
1.86 |
£2.31 |
20 |
8 |
M90 | Perth | J9 | J7 |
11 |
22 |
1.68 |
£2.09 |
19 |
9 |
M6 | Stoke-on-Trent | J14 | J15 |
11 |
22 |
1.68 |
£2.09 |
19 |
10 |
A1(M) | North East | J50 | J51 |
10 |
20 |
1.55 |
£1.92 |
17 |
*Based on a Ford Fiesta Hatch 3Dr 1.0T EcoB 100 SS ST-Line 6 19MY | |||||||||
Mpg used for this calculation: 58.90 mpg |
To illustrate it better, here is a great interactive map to reveal the findings so you can see how a wrong turn could impact on the journey – Wrong Turn Map
Top Tips if you go the wrong way:
Please tell us your stories of missing the junction you needed, I’m sure most of you have done it…
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