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Have you ever wondered which British cities have the worst drivers?







In order to find out, we decided to look beyond accident statistics and find out which of Britain’s major cities have the highest rates of driver disqualification.







Data obtained by ContractHireACar.com (via Freedom of Information requests to the DVLA) reveals that, out of Britain’s ten most populous cities, Birmingham has the highest proportion of disqualified drivers by a clear margin.





















































































































































City

|

Registered Drivers

|

Disqualifications

|

% Disqualified





Birmingham

|

515,591

|

3,000

|

0.58%





Manchester

|

516,933

|

2,537

|

0.49%





Liverpool

|

349,861

|

1,368

|

0.39%





Leeds

|

338,439

|

1,287

|

0.38%





London

|

2,497,931

|

9,336

|

0.37%





Leicester

|

327,065

|

1,183

|

0.36%





Glasgow

|

573,859

|

2,051

|

0.36%





Sheffield

|

337,665

|

1,018

|

0.30%





Bristol

|

509,920

|

1,486

|

0.29%





Edinburgh

|

240,085

|

599

|

0.25%





Manchester is second on the list, with 0.49% of all registered motorists disqualified in 2012, and Liverpool completes the top 3 with 0.39%.Other towns with driver disqualification rates well above the national average include West Bromwich (0.73%), Bradford (0.65%) and Salford (0.57%).The full data also reveals that Wales has the highest percentage of driver disqualifications with 0.39%. England is next in line with 0.35%, and Scotland has the lowest percentage with 0.33%.The disqualification rates were calculated by dividing the total number of Category B licence holders for each town at the end of 2011 by the number of drivers disqualified in each town during 2012.Driving disqualification can occur if you are convicted of a serious driving offence, or if you manage to accumulate 12 or more penalty points in the space of 3 years.Want to know how your local town stacks up? You can download the full raw data for all 1,425 towns recognised by the DVLA here