Request ID: FOI-1173-2122 Date published: 23 September 2021
You asked
For the past couple of years you have, under the FOI provisions, provided me with 2018 and 2019 fatality data for the stretches of road covered by Transport for London’s five ‘Average Speed Camera schemes’:
A40 between the Polish War Memorial and Paddington Slip Road
A406 North Circular Road, between Hanger Lane and Bounds Green Road
A316 between the M3 and Staveley Road
A2 between the Blackwall Tunnel and Dartford Heath
A13 between Canning Town and the Goresbrook Interchange
This has enabled me to update a book I have been writing on road safety. May I, in what I confidently expect to be the final update, request the figures for 2020.
May I also, this year, extend my request. It has become clear, it may will be insightful to look at the numbers of seriously injured on these roads between 2000 and 2020 (or, if the 2020 figures for the seriously injured are not yet ready) between 2000 and 2019. Given that these five schemes are, I believe, pilot schemes, one imagines that the statistics I am requesting will be readily, and easily, available.
Thanks.
We answered
Our ref: FOI-1173-2122/GH
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 31 August 2021 asking for road fatality data.
Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy. I can confirm that we do hold the information you require.
Please see the attached data as requested, killed or seriously injured casualty numbers for Average Speed Camera / Time Distance Camera sites 2000-2020.
From September 2016 onwards the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) introduced the Case Overview and Preparation Application (COPA) to report road traffic collisions. The City of London Police Service (CoLP) adopted the similar Department for Transport (DfT) Collision Reporting and SHaring (CRASH) system in September 2015. COPA and CRASH aim to bring improvements to the reporting of road safety data for London.
These systems use a new method of assessing the severity of injury sustained in collisions, as recommended by the DfT, whereby Police officers record the type of injury suffered rather than their assumptions about the severity of the injury. The recording system then assigns an injury severity according to the type of injury recorded. This contrasts with the previous system where officers recorded whether, in their judgement, an injury was 'Slight' or 'Serious'. The use of these systems has resulted in improved accuracy in the recording of injury type, with more injuries being classified as Serious rather than Slight.
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for some reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.
If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Graham Hurt FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
