Northants KSI's up on last year
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Slight Rise In Serious Injury Collisions Back
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Your Location: Northants Police Online > News > Web News > Latest News
15/03/2006
The county’s Casualty Reduction Partnership is appealing to all road users to take individual responsibility for road safety, following a slight rise in the number of people killed or seriously injured on Northamptonshire’s roads last year.
A total of 517 people were killed or seriously injured (KSI) on the county’s road in 2005, 19 more (+4 per cent) than the 498 KSI casualties in 2004.
Forty-two people lost their lives on the county’s roads last year, four fewer (down 9 per cent) than the previous year (46), but sadly the picture in the first two months of this year is not improving, with 14 fatalities already since January 1.
The Casualty Reduction Partnership, which includes Northamptonshire Police and Northamptonshire County Council among other partners, is particularly concerned about the number of young drivers (17-24 year olds) who are being killed or seriously injured in collisions.
Despite substantial work by the Partnership to influence young driver behaviour and attitudes, through initiatives such as the CarKraft young driver improvement scheme, young driver casualties rose by 38 per cent, from 48 in 2004 to 66 in 2005.
Children and pedal cyclist casualties also rose by 10 per cent (from 60 in 2004 to 66 in 2005) and 30 per cent (23 to 30) respectively.
On the positive side, the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured fell by two per cent from 88 to 86, and there were also casualty reductions for pedestrians, down one per cent (74 to 73), car passengers, down ten per cent (from 94 to 85), and other road users (such as horse riders, HGV drivers, bus or coach drivers and agricultural vehicles) down 11 per cent (from 47 to 42).
There was also a pleasing drop in the number of people who suffered slight injuries in collisions, which fell by 10 per cent or 234 fewer casualties, from 2038 slight casualties last year compared to 2272 in 2004.
Commander of Northamptonshire Police Operations department, which includes the Road Policing Unit, Superintendent Simon Blatchly, said: “Despite all the good work of the Casualty Reduction Partnership, it is disappointing to see a slight increase in the number of people killed or seriously injured on the county’s roads.
“We must never forget that every statistic is somebody’s loved one and every collision results in a great deal of trauma not only for the casualties themselves but for their families and friends.
“The Casualty Reduction Partnership carries out continual monitoring of the casualty figures, collision locations and causation factors, and is proactive in altering programmes of work to address identified problem areas. We have already begun on an action plan in a determined effort to improve road safety for those road user groups which saw increases in casualties last year, including young drivers, children and pedal cyclists.
“All road users should also take individual responsibility for their own and other’s safety on our roads and I would appeal for people to take extra care at all times to ensure they don’t become a casualty.”
Northamptonshire County Council Cabinet member for Highways and Transportation, Councillor Bob Seery, said: “Whilst recognising that statistics of this nature are susceptible to annual variations, they do corroborate the need to continue with our
current programme of highway safety improvement measures.
“At the same time, they demonstrate the need to particularly direct our activities towards reversing the trend in road accidents by young drivers.
“I am therefore confident that, as a result of our commitment towards improving the safety of all road users and the measures being taken for that purpose, the safety of road users in the county will continue to be improved.”
Examples of some of the action currently taking place to improve road safety for vulnerable road users include:
· CarKraft Experience skills and information days for young drivers, ongoing – next event at Silverstone Circuit on April 23
· Young driver education – radio advert on Northants 96 giving casualty figures and safety messages
· Bicycle helmet initiative with reduced price helmets and vests, and looking at adopting the national standard for cycle training
· Working with all schools to develop a continual road safety-training programme. Expanding the Junior Road Safety Officers group to all schools, to promote road safety training using the children themselves
· Ongoing engineering measures to target problem areas
· Operation Roadsafe ongoing with education and enforcement targeting offences such as using a mobile phone whilst driving, drink-driving, not wearing seatbelts and mechanical defects, among other areas
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My thoughts are that the only way you are going to get the kids to slow down is if the ones driving like loons are caught by the Police at the time. Most people know where the cameras are including mobile patrols so they just slow down for them.
I'm not saying anything new but I just thought it was interesting to note that the statistics seem to be flattening out now that we have been working with the re-defined terms for a few years.
www.northants.police.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=11365
Slight Rise In Serious Injury Collisions Back
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Your Location: Northants Police Online > News > Web News > Latest News
15/03/2006
The county’s Casualty Reduction Partnership is appealing to all road users to take individual responsibility for road safety, following a slight rise in the number of people killed or seriously injured on Northamptonshire’s roads last year.
A total of 517 people were killed or seriously injured (KSI) on the county’s road in 2005, 19 more (+4 per cent) than the 498 KSI casualties in 2004.
Forty-two people lost their lives on the county’s roads last year, four fewer (down 9 per cent) than the previous year (46), but sadly the picture in the first two months of this year is not improving, with 14 fatalities already since January 1.
The Casualty Reduction Partnership, which includes Northamptonshire Police and Northamptonshire County Council among other partners, is particularly concerned about the number of young drivers (17-24 year olds) who are being killed or seriously injured in collisions.
Despite substantial work by the Partnership to influence young driver behaviour and attitudes, through initiatives such as the CarKraft young driver improvement scheme, young driver casualties rose by 38 per cent, from 48 in 2004 to 66 in 2005.
Children and pedal cyclist casualties also rose by 10 per cent (from 60 in 2004 to 66 in 2005) and 30 per cent (23 to 30) respectively.
On the positive side, the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured fell by two per cent from 88 to 86, and there were also casualty reductions for pedestrians, down one per cent (74 to 73), car passengers, down ten per cent (from 94 to 85), and other road users (such as horse riders, HGV drivers, bus or coach drivers and agricultural vehicles) down 11 per cent (from 47 to 42).
There was also a pleasing drop in the number of people who suffered slight injuries in collisions, which fell by 10 per cent or 234 fewer casualties, from 2038 slight casualties last year compared to 2272 in 2004.
Commander of Northamptonshire Police Operations department, which includes the Road Policing Unit, Superintendent Simon Blatchly, said: “Despite all the good work of the Casualty Reduction Partnership, it is disappointing to see a slight increase in the number of people killed or seriously injured on the county’s roads.
“We must never forget that every statistic is somebody’s loved one and every collision results in a great deal of trauma not only for the casualties themselves but for their families and friends.
“The Casualty Reduction Partnership carries out continual monitoring of the casualty figures, collision locations and causation factors, and is proactive in altering programmes of work to address identified problem areas. We have already begun on an action plan in a determined effort to improve road safety for those road user groups which saw increases in casualties last year, including young drivers, children and pedal cyclists.
“All road users should also take individual responsibility for their own and other’s safety on our roads and I would appeal for people to take extra care at all times to ensure they don’t become a casualty.”
Northamptonshire County Council Cabinet member for Highways and Transportation, Councillor Bob Seery, said: “Whilst recognising that statistics of this nature are susceptible to annual variations, they do corroborate the need to continue with our
current programme of highway safety improvement measures.
“At the same time, they demonstrate the need to particularly direct our activities towards reversing the trend in road accidents by young drivers.
“I am therefore confident that, as a result of our commitment towards improving the safety of all road users and the measures being taken for that purpose, the safety of road users in the county will continue to be improved.”
Examples of some of the action currently taking place to improve road safety for vulnerable road users include:
· CarKraft Experience skills and information days for young drivers, ongoing – next event at Silverstone Circuit on April 23
· Young driver education – radio advert on Northants 96 giving casualty figures and safety messages
· Bicycle helmet initiative with reduced price helmets and vests, and looking at adopting the national standard for cycle training
· Working with all schools to develop a continual road safety-training programme. Expanding the Junior Road Safety Officers group to all schools, to promote road safety training using the children themselves
· Ongoing engineering measures to target problem areas
· Operation Roadsafe ongoing with education and enforcement targeting offences such as using a mobile phone whilst driving, drink-driving, not wearing seatbelts and mechanical defects, among other areas
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My thoughts are that the only way you are going to get the kids to slow down is if the ones driving like loons are caught by the Police at the time. Most people know where the cameras are including mobile patrols so they just slow down for them.
I'm not saying anything new but I just thought it was interesting to note that the statistics seem to be flattening out now that we have been working with the re-defined terms for a few years.
More like, new road safety bill alters the way injuries are recorded, so next year it appears that although yet again, deaths haven't fallen much, aside all the leaps forward in car safety and medical care, injuries have fallen 
KSI is about the most useless figure. Go on deaths, they are the only absolute reference the government can't fiddle with!
Dave
KSI is about the most useless figure. Go on deaths, they are the only absolute reference the government can't fiddle with!
Dave
dickymint said:
Intersting that a 4% increase and not once was the word SPEED used!!! Don't suppose they now know there isn't a link
I think the 'facts' they have sown previously are now coming back to haunt them.
If they want to continue the focus on speed and report that the increase in deaths correlates with an increase in average speed, then this is admitting that despite all of the cameras, they have failed, in fact it has got worse and their blundering has *caused* an increase in deaths.
If they report that there has been a decrease in average speed, then they have to admit the number of deaths has no connection to average speed, and thus the focus on speed is completely misguided, and in the last 8 years or so they could have saved hundreds of lives by focussing elsewhere.
northants has one of the most zealous anti speed police force/scamera parasite groups. the problem with these idiots is they will take rising ksi's as evidence that there havent been enough prosecutions. even the a428, a beautiful country road now has those fuc4ing specs cameras on it. how do these people stay in work after such catastrophic incompetance and failure?
Where does the definition end between a KSI and a slight injury? How is the distinction made. I live in Northants and they have a huge number of cameras around including specs on some roads.
Just found some interesting statistics (or should I say lies). In 2003 there were 290,607 casualties in road accidents of these 3,508 were fatalities.
In 2002/3 there were 3,541 deaths in the home alone caused by accidents, and a staggering 5.77 million injuries. I don't see the govenment trying to force us all to have cameras in our homes to stop us from causing possible death and injury to ourselves and or others? (statistics courtesy of the ROSPA website).
Just found some interesting statistics (or should I say lies). In 2003 there were 290,607 casualties in road accidents of these 3,508 were fatalities.
In 2002/3 there were 3,541 deaths in the home alone caused by accidents, and a staggering 5.77 million injuries. I don't see the govenment trying to force us all to have cameras in our homes to stop us from causing possible death and injury to ourselves and or others? (statistics courtesy of the ROSPA website).
I was on the 'Red Route' section of the 428 last Sunday evening on my way home from visiting my cousin in Kenilworth and had my first experience of driving a SPECS road. As it happened, a silver Pug 206 was in front of me, driving across the white lines most of the time (to the peril of oncoming vehicles) and not exceeding 40 mph. I put up with this bizarre driving for about 10 miles until we were held up at traffic lights in a village. I got out of my car and went to the Pug and tapped on the driver-door window. The window descended revealing a lady of about 70 years old with thick-lensed spectacles. I asked her if she was feeling OK as her driving seemed a bit 'odd'. She apologised profusely, explaining that she had just had her caratacts 'done' and, in her haste to go out, had left with her reading glasses, so she was unable to see the road properly and had been driving using the white lines...!
I returned to my car and pulled over for 20 minutes in the hope that she would get far enough away from me to present no more danger - which seemed to work, as I did not see her again. Sitting at the roadside, waiting whilst this rolling hazard drove into the night, I wondered how the Camera Partnership would justify this stupid person's presence on the road - driving way under the speed limit, but an accident waiting to happen...
I returned to my car and pulled over for 20 minutes in the hope that she would get far enough away from me to present no more danger - which seemed to work, as I did not see her again. Sitting at the roadside, waiting whilst this rolling hazard drove into the night, I wondered how the Camera Partnership would justify this stupid person's presence on the road - driving way under the speed limit, but an accident waiting to happen...
county scammers haven't said:
We appeal to all road users to take individual responsibility for road safety, following a slight rise in the number of people killed or seriously injured on Northamptonshire’s roads last year. That's because we're irresponsible for road safety.
A total of 517 people were killed or seriously injured (KSI) on the county’s road in 2005, 19 more (+4 per cent) than the 498 KSI casualties in 2004.
We tried to see if redefining 'S' in KSI would help, but diddly squat came of that and we're stuck with the fact that we are pretty useless at improving safety but very good at fleecing motorists who are already driving safely, just a bit quicker than the safety totalitarians would like.
We must now accept that this whole shebang is under what clever people call 'statistical process control' but we're not that clever so we don't fully understand. Apparently it means that accidents are rather random things that don't have much if any dependence on vehicle speed, so that puts a real sh1tter on our work.
Anyway we'll carry on as those nice men Mr BLiar and Mr Moneygrabberbrownieboy like us. That makes it all worthwhile, and we do try to think of the childwen.
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