The Motorways and Highways With The Biggest Gaps Between Toilets
You’ve been there before. Snailing along the motorway, bladder full to bursting, you pass a sign: SERVICES 10 m.
You’re lucky, because we found that the average distance to a toilet on UK motorways is 22.7 miles. But you don’t feel lucky. You feel desperate. Your eyes search the horizon for a well-positioned tree, but even then, you can’t just pull over.
The solution? Unfortunately, many choose to avoid drinking water before and during a journey to avoid an uncomfortable bladder. Not good. In one study, dehydrated motorists made more than twice as many driver errors as well-hydrated ones. Pretty much the same score that drunk drivers get. And driver error is the leading cause of road accidents by a long, long way.
In other words, if you feel tired, dizzy or light-headed, suffer cramps, lose your concentration or feel a headache come on, it’s way past time to take a sip.
There are other ways to manage hydration — we’ll take a look at them later. But first, QS Supplies wants to identify the UK motorways and U.S. highways with the longest gaps between toilets. So, we took a sip and headed out onto the information superhighway.
