Why are UK country roads so narrow?

I have never been able to understand what seem to effectively be one lane roads.
No room for two cars to pass.
Yes, it would keep the speed down but what are the fatal accident rates?

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senghenydd · M

I need to know what country your from to understand clearly your comment about our country roads, the roads your describing are hundreds of years old connecting villages and in some cases farms they weren't meant for modern traffic and yet they exist we'd be lost without them.

Gusman · 61-69, M

@senghenydd I live in the wide brown land down under.
UK would fit inside Australia 10 times, that's how big we are.

senghenydd · M

@Gusman Your Country is a young Country modern in fact, without Old Country roads although I know you do have some farm tracks I've watched programmes about the Outback.

Too hot for me though but plenty of land wide-open spaces to get away from it all.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@senghenydd Same with Canada, we are used to sprawling big spaces.