Arrive Alive ' reduction of 35%' claims rebutted
Discussion
This from a North Wales newspaper. Arrive Alive had claimed a reduction of 35% in KSI during the speed camera trial. Letter begins:
Mr Alan Hughes of the euphemistically named ‘Arrive Alive’ partnership again tells us the speed camera trial in six counties was successful.
He says it ran for two years but in fact it was stopped after one year because DTLR spin-doctors found they could produce a favourable outcome by taking fatality figures and burying them within the Killed and Seriously Injured figures (KSI), though a broken arm is not quite the same as being dead!
The truth is as follows, from police figures in the six areas.
Essex fatalities fell back to the average of the previous 6 years following an upward blip in 1999. A year later Essex deaths had risen by 43% with more cameras. (Just as well they ended it early!) By 2002, Essex fatalities were the third highest in ten years.
Lincolnshire returned to roughly the average for the 8 previous years following a blip in 1999 but the next year with even more cameras, fatalities rose by 22% and in 2002 were 29% higher than when the “successful” trial was ended in 2000.
Northants fell back to 1997 levels but by 2002 they had the second highest death figures in 10 years.
During the trial, Notts. fatalities were up by 12.5%, Thames Valley up by 15% and Cleveland up by 18%.
Mr Jones calls this success: how does he define failure?
Mr Alan Hughes of the euphemistically named ‘Arrive Alive’ partnership again tells us the speed camera trial in six counties was successful.
He says it ran for two years but in fact it was stopped after one year because DTLR spin-doctors found they could produce a favourable outcome by taking fatality figures and burying them within the Killed and Seriously Injured figures (KSI), though a broken arm is not quite the same as being dead!
The truth is as follows, from police figures in the six areas.
Essex fatalities fell back to the average of the previous 6 years following an upward blip in 1999. A year later Essex deaths had risen by 43% with more cameras. (Just as well they ended it early!) By 2002, Essex fatalities were the third highest in ten years.
Lincolnshire returned to roughly the average for the 8 previous years following a blip in 1999 but the next year with even more cameras, fatalities rose by 22% and in 2002 were 29% higher than when the “successful” trial was ended in 2000.
Northants fell back to 1997 levels but by 2002 they had the second highest death figures in 10 years.
During the trial, Notts. fatalities were up by 12.5%, Thames Valley up by 15% and Cleveland up by 18%.
Mr Jones calls this success: how does he define failure?
- Streaky 
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