Map of Bike Accidents in the UK
Tony666
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Planning a cycle route? Would it be useful to know where accidents-involving-bicycles have been in the past? Following the principle of “make the raw data available, and let others use it” - here’s a new data set.
The information is provided by the Department for Transport, and the first of what we hope will be many more raw data sets provided through this innovate site. At the moment it’s just one file - but it will go straight into our data wiki which should be ready very soon.
The data gives the locations (for the years 2005-2007) of accidents involving pedal cycles, causing personal injury, which were reported to the police. Are there ‘hot-spots’? Any trends over time? Could this support a “plan a safer journey” service? What about helping to draw attention to the need for road improvements? Over to you to explore some of the answers…
Further information on road accident statistics (including scope, definitions and limitations) can be found in the Road Casualties Great Britain report (2007 is the latest year available).
http://innovate.direct.gov.uk/data/PedalCycleAccidentLocations.zip
The information is provided by the Department for Transport, and the first of what we hope will be many more raw data sets provided through this innovate site. At the moment it’s just one file - but it will go straight into our data wiki which should be ready very soon.
The data gives the locations (for the years 2005-2007) of accidents involving pedal cycles, causing personal injury, which were reported to the police. Are there ‘hot-spots’? Any trends over time? Could this support a “plan a safer journey” service? What about helping to draw attention to the need for road improvements? Over to you to explore some of the answers…
Further information on road accident statistics (including scope, definitions and limitations) can be found in the Road Casualties Great Britain report (2007 is the latest year available).
http://innovate.direct.gov.uk/data/PedalCycleAccidentLocations.zip
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The zip file there is potentially very useful, once an IT literate soul can extract the OS coordinates and superimpose them on a map.
I'd guess the majority of accidents are in built up areas? IME most of my miles are rural but most of my incidents or near misses on my bike have been in town (although relatively lucky I've only been knocked off my bike once and that was partly my fault).
I wonder if this info is used at a government level to decide on where to put cycle paths, traffic calming etc?Campag taste, jam wages.0 -
Whoops sorry. If you go here and click on 2005, 2006 or 2007 it will open the data as pins on Google Earth, providing that you have Google Earth installed on your PC that is:
http://scraplab.net/2009/03/11/pedal-cycle-incident-data-in-kml.html0
