Road Casualties 2009

Road Casualties Great Britain Main Results: 2009 are out at the DfT
webpages.

Main Highlights are :

Total road casualties down 4%
Seriously injured down 6%
Child casualties down 6%
All pedestrian casualties down 6%
Motor cycle casualties down 4%

All good news - oh - there are a couple mo

Number of seriously injured cyclists up 6%
Total casualties among cyclists up 5%

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Many cyclists are proving the need for registration by their contempt for the Highway Code and laws.

The answer:
All cyclists over 16 to take compulsory test, have compulsory insurance, and be registered.
Registration number to be clearly visible on the back of mandatory hi-viz vest.
Habitual law breakers' cycles confiscated and crushed.
(With thanks to KeithT for the idea)

JMS wrote:
Road Casualties Great Britain Main Results: 2009 are out at the DfT
webpages.

Main Highlights are :

Total road casualties down 4%
Seriously injured down 6%
Child casualties down 6%
All pedestrian casualties down 6%
Motor cycle casualties down 4%

All good news - oh - there are a couple mo

Number of seriously injured cyclists up 6%
Total casualties among cyclists up 5%

that is probably because of an increase in their numbers coupled witha lack
of training/regulation

In article VOl1o.235346$sD7.191566@hurricane,
Mrcheerful wrote:
JMS wrote:
Road Casualties Great Britain Main Results: 2009 are out at the DfT
webpages.

Main Highlights are :

Total road casualties down 4%
Seriously injured down 6%
Child casualties down 6%
All pedestrian casualties down 6%
Motor cycle casualties down 4%

All good news - oh - there are a couple mo

Number of seriously injured cyclists up 6%
Total casualties among cyclists up 5%

that is probably because of an increase in their numbers coupled witha lack
of training/regulation

Without more information, we cannot even say whether the number of
accidents per cyclist or mile cycled rose or fell, and we CERTAINLY
have no grounds to even guess at a cause.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Mrcheerful wrote:
JMS wrote:
Road Casualties Great Britain Main Results: 2009 are out at the DfT
webpages.

Main Highlights are :

Total road casualties down 4%
Seriously injured down 6%
Child casualties down 6%
All pedestrian casualties down 6%
Motor cycle casualties down 4%

All good news - oh - there are a couple mo

Number of seriously injured cyclists up 6%
Total casualties among cyclists up 5%

that is probably because of an increase in their numbers coupled witha lack
of training/regulation



Somehow the minor fact that cyclist fatalities fell by 10% seems to have
been overlooked. I can't think why on earth that would be.

--
Tony

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

On Jul 20, 7:29*pm, wrote:
In article VOl1o.235346$sD7.191566@hurricane,





Mrcheerful wrote:
JMS wrote:
Road Casualties Great Britain Main Results: 2009 are out at the DfT
webpages.

Main Highlights are :

Total road casualties down 4%
Seriously injured down 6%
Child casualties down 6%
All pedestrian casualties down 6%
Motor cycle casualties down 4%

All good news - oh - there are a couple mo

Number of seriously injured cyclists up 6%
Total casualties among cyclists up 5%

that is probably because of an increase in their numbers coupled witha lack
of training/regulation

Without more information, we cannot even say whether the number of
accidents per cyclist or mile cycled rose or fell, and we CERTAINLY
have no grounds to even guess at a cause.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Maybe this might help:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/no...t-of-transport

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:52:37 +0100, Tony Raven
wrote:

Mrcheerful wrote:
JMS wrote:
Road Casualties Great Britain Main Results: 2009 are out at the DfT
webpages.

Main Highlights are :

Total road casualties down 4%
Seriously injured down 6%
Child casualties down 6%
All pedestrian casualties down 6%
Motor cycle casualties down 4%

All good news - oh - there are a couple mo

Number of seriously injured cyclists up 6%
Total casualties among cyclists up 5%

that is probably because of an increase in their numbers coupled witha lack
of training/regulation



Somehow the minor fact that cyclist fatalities fell by 10% seems to have
been overlooked. I can't think why on earth that would be.

That only encourages the *******s.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:52:37 +0100, Tony Raven
wrote:

Mrcheerful wrote:
JMS wrote:
Road Casualties Great Britain Main Results: 2009 are out at the DfT
webpages.

Main Highlights are :

Total road casualties down 4%
Seriously injured down 6%
Child casualties down 6%
All pedestrian casualties down 6%
Motor cycle casualties down 4%

All good news - oh - there are a couple mo

Number of seriously injured cyclists up 6%
Total casualties among cyclists up 5%

that is probably because of an increase in their numbers coupled witha lack
of training/regulation



Somehow the minor fact that cyclist fatalities fell by 10% seems to have
been overlooked. I can't think why on earth that would be.

Not according to the Guardian's headline:
"Sharp rise in number of cyclists killed on roads"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/no...t-of-transport

In article ,
Tom Crispin wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:52:37 +0100, Tony Raven
wrote:

Somehow the minor fact that cyclist fatalities fell by 10% seems to have
been overlooked. I can't think why on earth that would be.

Not according to the Guardian's headline:
"Sharp rise in number of cyclists killed on roads"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/no...t-of-transport

You are looking at different data.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:11:44 +0100, JMS
wrote:

Road Casualties Great Britain Main Results: 2009 are out at the DfT
webpages.

Main Highlights are :

Total road casualties down 4%
Seriously injured down 6%
Child casualties down 6%
All pedestrian casualties down 6%
Motor cycle casualties down 4%

All good news - oh - there are a couple mo

Number of seriously injured cyclists up 6%
Total casualties among cyclists up 5%

The figures in London are different.

Pedal cyclist casualties in Greater London by severity and year:
Year Fatal Serious Slight All
2000 14 408 3,084 3,506
2001 21 444 2,857 3,322
2002 20 394 2,648 3,062
2003 19 421 2,616 3,056
2004 8 332 2,620 2,960
2005 21 351 2,523 2,895
2006 19 373 2,566 2,958
2007 15 446 2,509 2,970
2008 15 430 2,757 3,202
2009 13 420 3,236 3,669

The second lowest number of fatalities in a decade, a decade average
number of serious injuries and the largest number of recorded hospital
admissions of cyclists with a grazed knee or similar ailments.

Source:
http://londonroadsafety.tfl.gov.uk/w...casualties.pdf
http://londonroadsafety.tfl.gov.uk/w...uring-2009.pdf

Sadly, in 2009, there was the first child cyclist fatality in London
since 2004. A young lad was killed by a policeman driving a fast
moving police car, with lights but no siren, as the child was cycling
across a pedestrian crossing.

Tom Crispin gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying:

Sadly, in 2009, there was the first child cyclist fatality in London
since 2004. A young lad was killed by a policeman driving a fast moving
police car, with lights but no siren, as the child was cycling across a
pedestrian crossing.

It would probably be inappropriate to ask why somebody was cycling across
a pedestrian crossing, wouldn't it?

I'm not sure it's relevant, either. The only relevant fact is that
somebody using a pedestrian crossing was not observing traffic properly.
On it's own, that should not result in a fatality. The police driver was
clearly not prepared for the crossing to be in use. As usual,
contributory ****wittery on the part of both those involved.

Nor do I see the fact it was a child as being particularly relevant - if
the child wasn't old enough to properly understand the rules of the road,
then it's a failure of the parents to properly supervise their child.