Personal Injury Road Traffic Accidents in Worcestershire

Accident Studies

Each year in Worcestershire there are around 1,500 personal injury road traffic accidents. These accidents result in some 2,000 casualties. By clicking the link to our online mapping system you can zoom in to the place you are interested in, to find information about the collisions.

The system displays details of the latest 36-months data, and is updated on a monthly basis.

You should note that data is always about six-weeks behind the current date.

West Mercia Constabulary provides the accident information to the County on a monthly basis.

The Accident Studies Team are continually working towards the National Targets of:

40% reduction in the number of ALL people killed or seriously injured (KSI) in road accidents.
50% reduction in the number of CHILDREN killed or seriously injured (KSI) in road accidents.

Children are defined as being those aged under 16.

10% reduction in the slight casualty rate, expressed as the number of people slightly injured per 100 million vehicle kilometres.

More information on the National Targets can be found on:'Tomorrow's Roads - Safer for Everyone'

Definition of a Road Traffic Accident (as defined by Department Of Transport):

"Involves personal injury occurring on the public highway (including footways) in which at least one road vehicle or a vehicle in collision with a pedestrian is involved and which becomes known to the police within 30 days of its occurrence. This definition includes collisions involving non-motor vehicles such as pedal cycles and ridden horses on public roads. The vehicle need not be moving and accidents involving stationary vehicles and pedestrians or users are included. One accident may give rise to several casualties."

Year ending 31st December

		2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
40% ALL KSI casualties	Actual	376	318	320	296	283	297	268	276
	2010 Target	547	522	498	474	450	425	401	377	352	328
	Course
50% CHILD KSI casualties	Actual	37	37	26	22	25	24	14	27
	2010 Target	59	56	53	50	46	43	40	36	33	30
	Course
10% ALL slight casualties	Actual	2077	2114	2000	1947	1921	1846	1649	1706
	2010 Target	2177	2153	2129	2105	2080	2056	2032	2008	1984	1959
	Course

The team are continually monitoring the accident picture across the County and use the accident data to establish where there are casualty problems occurring on the Countys’ road network.

We are then able to undertake a study of accident locations, accident circumstances and the types of road users and vehicles involved.

Having determined the areas of concern, sites are then prioritised for further investigation and remedial schemes will be drawn up and costed out. The most cost effective schemes will then be forwarded to the local safety schemes programme.

If you cannot find what you are looking for, or you require additional information, you can contact the Accident Studies Team on 01905 766831.

The Accident Studies Team is based at:

County Hall,
Spetchley Road,
WORCESTER
WR5 2NP

Engineering measures alone will not always be the complete remedy to accident problems and there will be a need to use enforcement, education, training and publicity alongside low-cost engineering measures. The following link will take you through to the Road Safety Web page.

Road Safety web page