One Merseyside area has the worst drivers in the country according to new statistics.
L24, covering parts of Speke and Hale is reported to have the worst drivers in the United Kingdom, with more than 15% of driving licence holders in the postcode having penalty points on their licence.
The research comes from Collingswood Insurance Services which has used the latest DVLA data on registered licence holders per postcode area and compared it with data on the total number of penalty points per postcode area. All ten of the worst postcodes for drivers with penalty points are split between Merseyside and Yorkshire, with Merseyside being home to first and sixth on the list.