For discussion.
www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublicatio...6
News Release by Brake:
"The Department for Transport this morning released provisional 2006 estimates for Road Casualties in Great Britain, showing no drop in the number of fatal crashes and, for the third consecutive year, a rise in cyclist deaths.
Brake, the national road safety charity, is calling for urgent Government action to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured in road crashes. Today?s statistics show that in 2006, the number of deaths and serious injuries only decreased by 2% from the previous year and the number of fatal crashes increased marginally. In 2006, 3,150 (P) people were killed and 28,390 were seriously injured, compared to 3,201 deaths and 28,954 serious injuries in 2005. The number of fatal crashes increased from 2,913 in 2005 to 2,920 in 2006.
Road deaths have barely fallen over the past decade. The Government?s road safety strategy aims for a 40% reduction in road deaths and serious injuries by 2010 (compared to a 1994-8 baseline). Although on track to reach this target (deaths and serious injuries have so far fallen by 34% since the baseline), the number of people killed on our roads has fallen by a pitiful 12% since the baseline. Brake is urging the Government to set a separate target for reducing fatal crashes, where reductions are still shockingly small.
Brake is also alarmed that cyclist deaths have increased again. Cyclist death rates have increased every year for three years running. Altogether, the number of cyclists killed has risen by 32% since 2003."
HJ
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would be interesting to know geographically where the increase in cyclist fatalities occured. Just wondering whether it is tied to, in particular, increased cycling in London due to Congestion Charging.
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That's 700,000 (give or take a few thousand) killed or seriously injured since 1991.
A sobering thought.
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Ever more 'safety' cameras, never fewer deaths.
Go figure!
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Try telling that to Richard Brunstrom the king of spin, the sultan of swing.....
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Try telling that to Richard Brunstrom the king of spin the sultan of swing.....
I think his days maybe numbered if the BBC Wales web site is to belived.... Mind you he's pretty teflonish is this respect
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>>Road deaths have barely fallen over the past decade.
it would make more sense if the figures were presented in a comparive method, for example something like deaths per km travelled, and also related to the average number of cars per km road space.
Brake is also alarmed that cyclist deaths have increased again. Cyclist death rates have increased every year for three years running. Altogether, the number of cyclists killed has risen by 32% since 2003."
brake must have access to more details than i can find from the report.
looking at the detailed pdf report,
www.dft.gov.uk/162259/162469/221412/221549/231414/...f
or the excel file
www.dft.gov.uk/172974/173025/221412/221549/231374/...s
from chart b, and tables 6, 7, 8, i cannot see how brake comes to its conclusions. (i cannot see a figure for cycling deaths on their own as opposed to ksi "killed or seriously injured" - the latter figures seem to show reduction in ksi )
if someone can spot where i am going wrong, please feel free to point me to teh correct table of stats. thanks.
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Reckon it is because traffic density is as more of a causal factor in accident rates than speed, so average speeds are lowered by lower limits and speed enforcement which added to the growth in vehicle numbers means congestion is on the increase at a greater rate than speed is falling.
What is needed is joined up thinking targetting congestion part of which must be to raise average speeds. After all if average speeds were raised by 10% congestion would drop by 10%.........
.............. and this does not even need limits to be raised because the average speed on most roads is well below the posted limit.
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More stats here. (Sorry, the URL is too long for a link so has to be copy and paste.)
(DFT) Road traffic in Great Britain - Q1 2007
The Department for Transport has today published National Statistics on Traffic in Great Britain, including analysis by vehicle type and road class, for the first quarter of 2007.
These provisional figures indicate that estimated traffic levels rose by 1.2 per cent between Q1 2006 and Q1 2007. Other key results, comparing the provisional Q1 2007 estimates with the provisional estimates for the same quarter one year earlier (Q1 2006) include:
These figures are available on DfT website at: www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublicatio.../
roadstraffic/traffic/qbtrafficgb/2007/trafficingreatbritainq12007
* Car traffic rose by 1 per cent
* Light van traffic rose by 4 per cent
* Goods vehicle traffic fell by 2 per cent
* Traffic on motorways was virtually unchanged
* Traffic on Rural A roads and Minor Rural roads both increased by 2 per cent
* Traffic on Urban A roads fell by 2 per cent and traffic on Minor Urban roads rose by 3 per cent
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Some regional stats from Bridgestone about tyre care.
National
11% never check their tyre pressure
17% never check their tyre tread depth
58% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
32% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
East
13% never check their tyre pressure
16% never check their tyre tread depth
61% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
70% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
London
8% never check their tyre pressure
18% never check their tyre tread depth
59% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
74% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit (The highest in the country)
Midlands
13% never check their tyre pressure
17% never check their tyre tread depth
58% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
62% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
North East
14% never check their tyre pressure
14% never check their tyre tread depth
41% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
60% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
North West
11% never check their tyre pressure
19% never check their tyre tread depth
51% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
66% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
Northern Ireland
20% never check their tyre pressure
20% never check their tyre tread depth
50% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
70% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
Scotland
13% never check their tyre pressure
14% never check their tyre tread depth
45% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
54% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
South East
14% never check their tyre pressure
22% never check their tyre tread depth (The highest in the country)
64% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
70% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
South West
9% never check their tyre pressure
15% never check their tyre tread depth
65% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
66% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
Wales
6% never check their tyre pressure
6% never check their tyre tread depth (The lowest in the country)
66% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
64% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
Yorkshire
10% never check their tyre pressure
20% never check their tyre tread depth
64% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit
58% cannot correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit
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Something wrong with the Bridgestone figures for the %ge unable to correctly identify the legal tread-depth limit.
The national figure is given as 32%. The lowest regional figure is 58%, with most being 60 - 70%.
Shome mishtake shurely?
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Knowing what the tread depth should be is one thing, but knowing what the maximum penalty is for any tyre-related offence smacks of anorak to me... Who cares, unless they've just been hit with it?
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>...knowing what the maximum penalty is for any tyre-related offence smacks of anorak to me...
Maybe, but 59% of Geordies apparently know it. I don't (not being a Geordie, although married to a northeasterner) although I do have some tyres. But then I go to banks too but I don't know the maximum penalty for robbing one.
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Some regional stats from Bridgestone about tyre care.
i.mo.
1. it would be interesting to see the methodology behind those stats.
2. it would be interesting to do a similar survey of backroomers.
for example if someone checks their tyre pressures/treads once, twice, thrice in the 3,5,7,10 years or whatever length of ownership of their car, is it any better than "never checking".
(for example, i check my tyre pressures and tread about once a month - is that good enough or not?)
i have no idea of the maximum penalty (even though i have a good memory for facts and figures).
as for tread depth, i actually change my tyres at about 3mm as per rospa advice. (and in another thread a backroomer said he would take my used tyres off me to use on his car with that amount of tread!)
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Checking your tyre pressures once a month, if you do much out-of-town driving, isn't often enough Dalglish.
On the other hand checking tread depth once a month strikes me as absurdly often. And unless you are a very serious wet-weather hotshoe, you are being needlessly extravagant by taking Rospa's advice to throw your tyres away when they have nearly twice the permitted minimum tread depth.
Is Rospa being bribed by tyre manufacturers, as disaffected French youth is obviously being bribed to burn lots of cars by car manufacturers and second-hand car dealers? :o}
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On the other hand checking tread depth once a month strikes me as absurdly often
i check the tread for stones, nails, etc. when i do the tyre pressures.
you are being needlessly extravagant by taking Rospa's advice ..
i am particular about the condition of tyres and brakes. i don't mind being extravagant in that respect. [ however, when it comes to oil changes, i take the manufacurer's variable service indicator as sufficient, and do not follow the backroom wisdom/advice of much more frequent changes ;-0 ]
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I'll take those 3mm tyres off your hand and put them to good use :)
I agree with checking for nails and forgien stuff in the tyres, to me thats more important than binning a tyre with 'only' 3mm of tread.
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>National
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58% do not know the maximum penalty, by UK law, for driving with tread depth below the legal limit.
I had another thought after writing my first post on this: the maximum penalty for driving on substandard tyres has nothing to do with UK law.
}:---(
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