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Cycling accidents - British TV documentary
John Kane wrote:
On Oct 7, 9:09 am, Jallaphanti wrote: On Oct 7, 10:38 am, ed wrote: We make serious documentaries for British TV - BBC and Channel 4 mostly, and are now working on programme about cycling accidents involving heavy goods vehicles around the UK. There have been several accidents, and deaths, in London so far this year which have been comvered, to some extent, by the press. But what about accidents outside London around the rest of the country? We have found these very hard to find. If you know of such accidents involving heavy good vehicles, outside of London, please get in touch. Many thanks. We would like your help. Surely there are other more accurate ways of getting such data than requesting on an internet forum? Not necessarily, at least as a check on other sources or a first sweep. URC readers are probably the main group in the UK who are intensely interested in such a topic. There is probably more expertise on safe cycling, cycling injuries, road design as related to safe cycling and even gasp helmets here than anywhere else in the UK. What participants down know they probably know who does or how to find it. John Kane Kingston It does seem impossible to find a central repository for road deaths, let alone large vehicle road deaths, by use of the internet. An example of to much information obscuring the required data. Given this the most accurate method of data collection might be to request the fatal collision reports from police forces around the country and then to discard the data that does not relate to large vehicles. Comment could then be sought from URC members about specific cases which might then raise better and more informed debate. As David mentions the use of the word accident is 'unfortunate' as it implies the poster has fallen into the common trap of ascribing collisions as 'non-fault' occurrences. It is worthy of note that UK police no longer describe collisions as 'accidents' and that the City of London incident board on Lower Thames Street J/W Southwark Bridge scene of a recent large vehicle v cyclist death describes the incident with the non attributable phrase 'Road Death'. This topic has to my memory been discussed at length on URC and it may be beneficial to the poster to understand the influence of this discussion on road safety. I shall leave posting of such links to more technical with better knowledge of the relevant topic threads. Sniper8052 |
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Cycling accidents - British TV documentary
On Oct 7, 10:50*am, "
wrote: On Oct 7, 10:38 am, ed wrote: We make serious documentaries for British TV - BBC and Channel 4 mostly, and are now working on programme about cycling accidents involving heavy goods vehicles around the UK. There have been several accidents, and deaths, in London so far this year which have been comvered, to some extent, by the press. But what about accidents outside London around the rest of the country? *We have found these very hard to find. *If you know of such accidents involving heavy good vehicles, outside of London, please get in touch. Many thanks. *We would like your help. Could you post what production company you are, your company address and proper details etc... From another group I frequent: "Cambridge Cycling Campaign has been contacted by a film company who are trying to make a film (for Panorama he believes) about left turning HGVs and Cyclists. Their last attempt a year ago failed because they could not find significant recently reported incidents outside of London, Cambridge and Oxford. Without more 'National' significance the program is not considered viable. If you know of any serious incidents, even if all you know is a reference in the press, could you please contact: Ed Harriman Producer/Director Brook Lapping Productions London Ten Alps PLC The factual media company http://www.tenalps.com" Hope that helps. Calum |
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