A WEBSITE for the European Road Assessment Programme has received an award for its work on providing safety ratings for roads across Europe.

Managed by the AA Foundation for Road Safety Research, www.eurorap.org won the Grand Award in the 'non-profit organisations' category at the iNOVA Awards, an international competition honouring excellence in corporate websites.

The site was created in the year 2000 and aims to provide a safety ratings for roads, with the aim of generating consumer information for the public and giving road engineers and planner vital benchmarking information on death, accidents and serious injury rates.

It shows where risk is high or low by inspecting roads across Europe to examine how well they protect users from accidents and from death and serious injury in the event of a crash.