tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535955433685226359.post2384784119274051980..comments2024-02-25T08:38:48.400+00:00Comments on Ian Walker’s blog: Road Injury Severity Map of EnglandIan Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04238484638393249191noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535955433685226359.post-22880355897571711242010-03-27T12:52:11.646+00:002010-03-27T12:52:11.646+00:00Hi,
You have done an excellent job by sharing thi...Hi,<br /><br />You have done an excellent job by sharing this information. After an accident, seeking legal redress often seems a necessary evil. Makin a personal injury claim is the natural step but the myriad of legal complications can often seem like a herculean task if you’re still trying to recover from the accident in question. There are ways to make the whole process as smooth as possible and ensure that getting reimbursed for the physical or psychological harm suffered is not as time consuming and costly as it seems. For more information visit: <a href="http://www.accidentsdirect.com/compensation-claims.aspx" rel="nofollow"><b>Personal injury compensation</b></a>.David Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10122404238966897521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535955433685226359.post-47495466965814059112009-12-16T19:06:32.546+00:002009-12-16T19:06:32.546+00:00Is that the Martin Cassini with the bizarre traffi...Is that the Martin Cassini with the bizarre traffic light fixation, by any chance?<br /><br />Excellent work on the maps, by the way - I'd love to know why Hammersmith & Fulham is so poor compared to similar inner city boroughs in the east, though.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02938347648935528029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535955433685226359.post-92105464552774992652008-11-04T11:01:00.000+00:002008-11-04T11:01:00.000+00:00Liz - that's really interesting. I hadn't seen tho...Liz - that's really interesting. I hadn't seen those particular maps before, so thanks. <BR/><BR/>Interestingly one can buy a UK map which highlights the roads particularly dangerous to motorcyclists, which is a similar concept but for a more specific group.Ian Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05112106400618895523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535955433685226359.post-74132643195640977512008-11-04T10:58:00.000+00:002008-11-04T10:58:00.000+00:00Have you looked at the work by EuroRAP on risk map...Have you looked at the work by EuroRAP on risk mapping? http://www.eurorap.org/risk_mapsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535955433685226359.post-5892707664074815452008-10-04T15:31:00.000+01:002008-10-04T15:31:00.000+01:00Isn't there a problem with the compilation of "acc...Isn't there a problem with the compilation of "accident" statistics. <BR/><BR/>At the boundary between serious and slight injuries there is not a gulf but a continuum. Judgments are made as to whether an injury is recorded as serious or slight, judgments which are unlikely to be consistent across the country. <BR/><BR/>There is also the question of the level of under reporting of slight injury accidents, which is also unlikely to be consistent over the country. So if slight injuries are less likely to be recorded in, say, urban areas the ratios will be distorted.<BR/><BR/>Anomalies like Devon and Cornwall might be explained by higher levels of reporting of slight injuries and/or lower levels of recording serious injuries due, for example, to different local attitudes.Chris Hutthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01532451004057748734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535955433685226359.post-27349839058689322142008-06-10T15:33:00.000+01:002008-06-10T15:33:00.000+01:00Karl,You can make either men or women the 'safest'...Karl,<BR/><BR/>You can make either men or women the 'safest' drivers depending on how you break the stats down. The first lesson in my Traffic and Transport Psychology course is all about different ways of breaking down accident figures - accidents per trip, per capita, per km, per vehicle km, per year, etc - and when each statistic is appropriate (e.g., for flying, accidents/trip is more useful than accidents/km). <BR/><BR/>If I remember rightly, women tend to have slightly more accidents per capita (i.e., in a given year, Ms X is slightly more likely to have an accident than Mr Y) but on average drive quite a bit less than men; this means men have more accidents per kilometre. For driving, this latter figure is probably more valid and men are 'worse' drivers. And this is before we even get into the issue of how severe the accidents are (I can't remember any figures off the top of my head, but your comment about lower speed collisions rings true: I think I have seen that somewhere).<BR/><BR/>The fact men are worse than women becomes completely undisputed when we consider young drivers; despite having been a young man myself once, I have to say that young men really don't belong on the road.Ian Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05112106400618895523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535955433685226359.post-74890640145495896062008-06-10T15:20:00.000+01:002008-06-10T15:20:00.000+01:00That's bloody brilliant! Especially the thinking a...That's bloody brilliant! Especially the thinking about the different dangers between leafy suburbs and crazed Norsemen.<BR/><BR/>One of the 'facts' (which may or may not be true - who am I to say?) that's often trotted out is that women are better drivers than men. The logic being that they pay lower insurance premiums, therefore must be safer. What I recently heard though (again no vouching for the truth of this) is that women actually have more accidents than men, but these tend to be low speed parking prangs / scrapes, while men have fewer accidents, but these tend to be high-speed driving like a loon wipe-outs. Just the sort of thing that would lead to a KSI point in your data.<BR/><BR/>As our resident Expert On The Truth Behind Road Safety Stats, got any thoughts on this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535955433685226359.post-5227994117862355142008-06-10T12:00:00.000+01:002008-06-10T12:00:00.000+01:00Excellent. One note: I discovered that DfT road ac...Excellent. One note: I discovered that DfT road accident stats don't distinguish between incidents at junctions with or without signal control. A London policeman once told me that at least half the "accidents" he attends occur at signal controlled junctions. (I put accidents in inverted commas because in my view, they are events contrived by the rules of the road.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com