Crash mis-reporting : West Midlands Police acknowledge worrying 20mph injury crash reporting errors
We have received a response (below) from West Midlands Police to our concerns about large numbers of mis-reported injury crash details on the very roads the council have made low speed, ie 20mph, zones nearly a decade ago. This zoning was aimed at making neighbourhoods safer for the most vulnerable road users, copying the hugely…
Crash mis-recording – Our analysis of police crash injury records in 20mph zones
We obtained data from Transport for West Midlands to see what effect Low Traffic Neighbourhoods have in South Birmingham on crash injuries. Unsurprisingly the completed Kings Heath Ph 1 LTN had dramatic success in crash injury reduction (16% compared to city wide trends 2017-2021) – according with equivalent studies across London’s LTNs . The ‘F2…
West Midlands Police continue to fail pedestrians – as drivers’ safety prioritised
We are once again asking West Midlands Police and the Police and Crime Commissioner about enforcement of speed limits – particularly on the hundreds of Birmingham streets the elected council have designated as 20 mph to encourage walking and cycling; the very neighbourhoods where most people live, go to school or work and shop. It’s…
What can LTNs do to fix Birmingham’s poor Road Safety performance ? New evidence from south Birmingham LTN
The evidence from 70+ LTN schemes in London showed conclusive road safety benefits even with the first year of operation, before many other ‘bedding in’ changes showed much effect on changing driver behaviours. We now have an analysis of Birmingham’s own large scale LTN trial (Kings Heath in South Birmingham), showing significant road casualty reductions…
WMCA’s draft Local Transport Plan ’22 – Dodges detail and misses Climate targets !
Birmingham Living Streets campaign group sent this letter to the board members of the West Midlands Combined Authority, pointing out major weaknesses in the draft plan and proposing several urgent improvements
WMCA Transport Plan timetable – “Discourse of Delay” ??
We’ve reproduced below the timetable presented by WMCA in their presentations on the “Green Paper” local transport plan. Implementation of anything and everything that would kick off the Boards aspirations for a greener, more active travel revolution looks dangerously far away for a world in the midst of a climate emergency . And why does…
B’ham Living Streets campaign group call on Police and Crime candidates to ‘level up’ on vulnerable user road safety
Injury risk levels for vulnerable road users are far too high across most of region, with Birmingham area incurring nearly 80% higher injury risk for pedestrians than national average (around 5 excess pedestrians injured by drivers every week) ; with only Solihull having a risk level below national average. Meanwhile the low levels of cycling…
Unacceptable ! Birmingham pedestrian injury risk levels amongst very worst nationally –
This table was constructed from the Department for transport injury risk data by local authority ( full year 2019, released 30th Sept 2020) and NTS data on levels of walking with NTS weightings applied for rural/rural hub/urban walking level differences – in turn calculated based on Defra local authority rural/hub/urban make up within local authority…
Walking – nearly twice as risky round here as the rest of England, and one reason why…
This graph reflects the risk of Pedestrian injury across English local authorities. and adds date on enforcement from ’20’s Plenty’ campaign group and various FoI. For full detailed table and source date from Department for Transport and National Travel Survey see page LINK
About Living Streets campaign group
Living strreets is a nationwide organisation, founded in 1929 as the Pedestrians’ Association and became known as the Pedestrians’ Association for Road Safety in 1952. The current name was adopted in 2001. As well as its research and campaigning for far safet and more convenient active travel at the national level, it comprises numerous local groups campaigning for improvement…
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