Motoring Discussion > How deadly is your road? Specialists
Thread Author: VxFan Replies: 22
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 13:46 
 How deadly is your road? - VxFan
A grim map indentifying Britain's deadliest roads has been launched, with details of more than a million crashes.

www.crashmap.co.uk/

So how safe / dangerous is your road then?
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 14:05 
 How deadly is your road? - Ted

Nothing in our road reported........I can go out and do some skipping in safety.

Ted
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 14:08 
 How deadly is your road? - movilogo

What purpose it serves to common folk?

I had a fairly serious accident last year (car written off but I survived without injury thanks to seat belt and airbags). When I identified my accident (it was almost half a mile off from the actual spot) in the site I was surprised to find it was noted as slight accident. On what basis they decided fatal/serious etc.?

Is the classification based on injury alone? Surely a slight bumper paint damage is not same as two cars written off in a major crash?

Also I looked at a sample report (which is a premium feature) and it didn't reveal a lot of info about an accident.

May be good for researchers but I struggle to see how you can get any benefit out of it.

Only one advantage I can see you can somewhat bargain for a property which is near accident black spot. But then will you want to buy that property anyway knowing there are so many accidents?
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 14:10 
 How deadly is your road? - henry k
>>So how safe / dangerous is your road then?
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Having a quick look at my area but not looking at the detailed reports, it appears to cover all reports whatever.
One close to me which I attended late one evening was a teenager had fallen off his push bike due to too much drink. He went to A & E as a precaution but was ok.
He did not want to go but was nudged with a comment like " We will have to call the police if you do not get in the ambulance"
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 14:25 
 How deadly is your road? - madf
The Leek-Buxton and Congleton -Buxton roads are within 10 miles.. two of the most dangerous roads for deaths in the UK.

Needless to say, most of the fatalities are mororcyclists...
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 14:30 
 How deadly is your road? - Bromptonaut
I suspect severity is based on killed or seriously injured.

Serious injury covers pretty much anything requiring a stay in hospital so could be a wrist that needs pins or life changing brain injury.
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 14:42 
 How deadly is your road? - Dog
I know I live in a remote area and all that, but when I punch in my postcode it comes up with Ambleside in Cumbria!
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 15:18 
 How deadly is your road? - bathtub tom
I told you that radon gas was dodgy stuff. ;>)
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 15:46 
 How deadly is your road? - Dog
Get ye hence to endless night!!
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 15:48 
 How deadly is your road? - Mapmaker
It was giving me Ambleside too. But if you put the postcode into the box in the bottom right hand corner that comes up when Ambleside's map appears, it will take you to your own remote area.
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 16:23 
 How deadly is your road? - Dog
>>But if you put the postcode into the box in the bottom right hand corner that comes up when Ambleside's map appears, it will take you to your own remote area.<<

Thanks! - only one slight acci on a bend that postie told me is dodgy in the ice age.
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 15:16 
 How deadly is your road? - oilburner
There was some surprises, in that well known local blackspots were not necessarily the worst roads in the area, and other roads were worse. But then if the markers can be 1/2 a mile away from the true location, who can tell?

Interesting, in that does give me some idea of roads I might want to try and avoid either as a cyclist or a runner on roads where there are no pavements.

Shame you have to pay for the details mind!
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 15:22 
 How deadly is your road? - oilburner
Noticed something interesting, living near the M5 that road is truly wallpapered with little accident icons. The motorways are surely the safest per mile travelled, but the *number* of accidents is quite significant. Food for thought with the proposal for an 80mph limit?
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 15:47 
 How deadly is your road? - Mapmaker
Fatal incident within 10 yards of my front door. Glad to see it's on the database.

And 67 fatal incidents within about 2 miles of my front door over the last five years.
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 18:46 
 How deadly is your road? - Zero
wow

My crash is on there. I paid a quid to get the details.

It has the location right, date and time, people involved, vehicle summary of those involved, but has the weather wrong.

there were three accidents in a year at that spot. The road has since been changed.
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 19:47 
 How deadly is your road? - swiss tony
On my road, 15 slights, 3 serious, and one fatal.
of those, 2 slights, 1 serious, and the fatal, were within 100 yards (metres) of my house.

The fatal was outside next door, and my daughter (17 at the time) was one of the first on the scene. Not nice for the girl.
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 20:03 
 How deadly is your road? - henry k
I had a look for a recent event where a cement mixer fell on the railway line at Oxshott.
You cannot get a much more pin point location but the database show the accident quite a way away.
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 Wed 5 Oct 11 13:00 
 How deadly is your road? - sooty123
Terrible round me, 49 slight, 5 serious. I wondered why even living out in the sticks why my preimum was so high!
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 Wed 5 Oct 11 13:08 
 How deadly is your road? - Snakey
I take it this includes pedestrian/suicides etc?

On the Washington services the last fatality there was someone running across the motorway during the night, who was run over and killed instantly. That shows up as a fatality 'crash'
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 Wed 5 Oct 11 13:09 
 How deadly is your road? - TheManWithNoName
Bit of a pointless website in my opinion, unless you happen to be involved in road planning in which case you'd probably have this level of data available free in other formats anyway.
Besides, its not the road that is dangerous it's the road user and you can't find out where the numpty's are using Google!
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 Wed 5 Oct 11 13:42 
 How deadly is your road? - Bromptonaut
Excellent illustration of the local double bend's capacity to put Corsas through a hedge backwards.

More generallly though, an interesting way of displaying information but of limited value without data on volumes etc.

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 Fri 7 Oct 11 10:53 
 How deadly is your road? - Shiny
What is this?
Facebook for accident claims scammers specialists?
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 Fri 7 Oct 11 11:11 
 How deadly is your road? - NortonES2
Exactly, TMWNN. The standard of riding in the vicinity of Buxton is atrocious. The roads near the Cat and Fiddle can only be considered very safe, bearing in mind their use as an unmarshalled race-track.
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