The UK should move clocks forward to cut down on road deaths, according to an online insurance company.

Yesinsurance.co.uk has commissioned research showing that UK road deaths could be cut by as much as six per cent a year - around 200 people - if the UK put clocks forward rather than back each winter.

The figures suggest that if clocks were put forward rather than back there would be a slight increase in road deaths in the darker mornings but a bigger decrease in deaths in the afternoon and evenings.

Paul Purdy, from Yesinsurance.co.uk, said: "In 2006, deaths on British roads totalled 522 in the five hours between 6am and 11am, rising to 961 from 3pm to 8pm."

Last year their were 3,172 road accidents deaths and 28,673 injuries.

The research suggests that these figures could have been reduced to 2,989 and 27,000 respectively if clocks had been put forward rather than back.

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