Peter W Jones MInstP

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Devon and Cornwall HGV Accidents 2006 to 2010

 

Peter W Jones MInstP

List of contents.

(1)  D&C HGV accidents

(2)  Cost of HGV accidents

(3)  ALKO on line ad for Trailer Control

(4)  HoC Stats for HGV accidents

 

ITEM (1)

Paragraph 1998

(Corrected 7/05/11)

I regret that my system will not copy satisfactorily the figures as supplied by Devon and Cornwall Police, but the tables shown by scrolling down a short distance should be readable. 

MY CALCULATIONS, based on the D&C Police figures, SHOW THAT THERE WERE  ON AVERAGE OVER THE YEARS 2006 TO 2010  305 HGV ACCIDENTS  PER YEAR IN DEVON AND CORNWALL  involving personal injury. 

 PARAGRAPH 2001 BELOW SHOWS THAT  THERE WERE ON AVERAGE DURING THE YEARS 1990 TO 1994  295 HGV ACCIDENTS PER YEAR ON AVERAGE IN DEVON AND CORNWALL involving personal injury.

IN D & C THE HGV ACCIDENT RATE HAS THEREFORE INCREASED BY ABOUT 0.3% IN 16 YEARS. This is insignificant, but all other groups of vehicles for which there are comparable records (except solo motor cycles) on a national basis, have reduced considerably their accidents rates.

NB

 The D&C Police report states that wef 01/01/2008 the criterea used for including HGV vehicles in these statistics was slightly changed. In my opinion the system change will have marginally reduced the number of HGV accidents recorded.

 

 

Devon and Cornwall HGV Accidents

Devon & Cornwall Police
Record 1

Freedom of Information Act Request No: 001871/11

I would now like to know (under foi rules) the number of HGV accidents that were reported by the police to the DfT for each of the last five years.
If there are any records in Devon and Cornwall I would like similar information for trailers under 3500kg in weight (Caravans, Horse Box trailers, [for instance]), together with, in this case only, the comparable figures for 1990 to 1994

The Performance and Analysis Department have provided the following information:

Data Source
Original data taken from the Forces Collision Computer System (AccsMap) based on details entered on the national collision recording form NCRF.
Data Processing
Data filtered (in SPSS vehicle files) on dates required 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2010 (based on the date of the collision).
For HGV figures, data filtered on the vehicle types HGV (13), Goods vehicle 3.5 tonnes mgw and under (19), Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes mgw & under 7.5 tonnes mgw (20) and Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes mge and over (21).
For information on trailers under 3500kg data filtered on the Towing and Articulation fields,
Data aggregated on collision reference so you can get the number of collisions as there could be more than one HGV involved in the collision.
Please note that due to Force recording changes of Damage Only collisions which came into effect from 1st January 2008 caution should be taken when comparing years. Please see the below explanation.
We cannot answer the second part of the question around trailers for the period 1990 to 1994 as we no longer have access to download that specific data anymore from the old collision computer system. So data is only supplied for the same period as question one, 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2010.

The table below shows the number of collisions involving HGV’s in Devon and Cornwall from 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2010 by severity and calendar years. These figures are submitted to the DFT as a matter of course.

Collision Severity 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Fatal 11 15 9 8 8
Serious 21 39 27 22 31
Slight 247 319 290 257 222
Damage only * 777 831 478 329 264
Total 1056 1204 804 616 525

The figures show that when comparing the calendar years of 2010 with 2006, fatal collisions involving HGV’s have decreased by 3 (-27.3%).
Comparing the same period as above all injury collisions involving HGV’s has decreased by 18 (-6.5%).
The table below shows the number of vehicles involved in collisions that were towing something in Devon and Cornwall from 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2010 by severity and calendar years.
Please note that there can be more than one vehicle involved in the collision that was towing something, so the table below is not the actual number of road collisions.

Severity Type of tow 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Fatal Articulated vehicle 0 1 0 0 3
Single trailer 2 1 2 0 0
Total 2 2 2 0 3
Serious Articulated vehicle 2 3 5 2 3
Double or multiple trailer 0 0 1 0 0
Caravan 1 0 1 0 4
Single trailer 1 6 4 1 2
Other tow 0 0 0 0 1
Total 4 9 11 3 10
Slight Articulated vehicle 15 16 26 9 18
Double or multiple trailer 2 0 1 1 0
Caravan 7 4 10 6 10
Single trailer 12 27 26 20 16
Other tow 3 8 1 3 3
Total 39 55 64 39 47
Damage only * Articulated vehicle 42 27 51 18 19
Double or multiple trailer 0 0 3 1 3
Caravan 19 24 22 25 9
Single trailer 51 26 46 43 21
Other tow 4 7 12 7 7
Total 116 84 134 94 59
Year Total 161 150 211 136 119

* Changes to recording of road collisions came into effect as from 1st January 2008.
Damage only collisions will not be recorded unless there is a clear and specified purpose for doing so, specifically:
Section 170 RTA 1988 not complied with (fail to stop)
Police vehicle involved
Other emergency services vehicle responding to an incident involved
The collision is one that provides a realistic prospect of securing a conviction against one of the drivers (Threshold Test aspect of the Full Code Test for Crown Prosecutors’)
Single vehicle loss of control

Peter W Jones MInstP

 (Item  2)

External Accident Cost of Heavy Goods Vehicles
Gunnar Lindberg
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
S-781 27 BORLÄNGE, SWEDEN
gli@du.se
To be presented at the UNITE seminar
Paris September 2001

Extracted from Paragraph 5

In total 9% of the accident cost falls on the HGV user, 77% on other motor vehicle users and 2% on unprotected users; 11% is so called system external costs and falls on the society in general, it consists mainly of the hospital and medical costs payed by the general social security system. The total cost of personal injuries from police reported accidents where HGV where involved was 224 Meuro in 1999.

Peter Jones MInstP

Item  3

The following is the script of the ALKO ad previously mentioned in my blog

www.universityminibustrailers.wordpress.com 

The photograph and the other decorative features of this ad failed to paste in with the script.

AL-KO ATC Trailer Control

AL-KO ATC Trailer Control

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Over two years ago, the Caravan Industry came under attack from a powerful European lobby, whose objective was to significantly tighten the Driving License rules for people driving and towing leisure vehicles within the European Community. AL-KO believed that our vehicles, and the vast majority of drivers are inherently very safe indeed and that any attempt to limit how and what could be driven would damage the Industry. What was also evident from the safety lobby was that when caravan “Snake” accidents happen, the effects are extremely visual, and quickly hit the headlines. Although these events are very rare indeed, they cause the maximum amount of negative publicity, and are most distressing for those involved.

AL-KO has created an automatic system which detects signs of Caravan Instability, to take preventative action at the earliest stage, before disaster takes place. It was also vitally important that the existing caravan braking systems was used to quickly control the problem.
Thus taking the Car & Caravan combination down below the “critical speed, and prevent a disaster situation”

AL-KO ATC is the emergency braking system for caravans and works in a similar way to ESP systems for cars. The sophisticated, but simple electronic system monitors the lateral movement of a caravan during travel. When difficult driving conditions are experienced, such as evasive manoeuvring, high side winds and turbulence encountered while overtaking HGV’s, AL-KO ATC takes control to regain stability and prevent dangerous snaking accidents.

Lateral acceleration sensors in the AL-KO ATC unit, monitor’s for slight side movements or a large swinging motion of a caravan. Even before an ESP system has detected the swinging movements of the car, AL-KO ATC applies the brakes on the caravan to slow the outfit down, before the situation becomes critical. The braking operation lasts only for a few seconds, long enough to re-establish control and to bring the car and caravan back to a safe driving condition.

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To download additional information about AL-KO ATC please

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ITEM  4

 

 

HGV ACCIDENT STATISTICS

 

 

 

 

Mrs. Dunwoody: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by police force the number of accidents involving (a) heavy goods vehicles, (b) passenger service vehicles and (c) minibuses for each of the last five years. [18668]
Mr. Norris: The information requested is shown in the following three tables. Figures for 1995 are not yet available.

Hello world!

Peter Jones MInstP
 

Personal injury road accidents involving an HGV by year and police authority: Great Britain 1990-1994	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Metropolitan Police	1,684	1,302	1,169	1,195	1,228
Cumbria	176	154	156	159	135
Lancashire	281	213	237	281	334
Merseyside	292	283	286	281	337
Greater Manchester	667	606	573	619	615
Cheshire	403	364	339	418	429
Northumbria	255	232	184	212	176
Durham	124	120	113	118	112
North Yorkshire	347	351	312	292	286
West Yorkshire	454	499	441	453	378
South Yorkshire	292	286	269	255	273
Humberside	232	214	261	230	261
Cleveland	69	87	66	63	45
West Midlands	479	407	421	414	432
Staffordshire	355	368	363	358	498
West Mercia	366	329	290	257	376
Warwickshire	225	176	172	191	174
Derbyshire	303	277	280	256	212
Nottinghamshire	283	289	267	259	260
Lincolnshire	287	219	245	246	188
Leicestershire	315	294	269	281	251
Northamptonshire	291	263	228	218	210
Cambridgeshire	327	281	272	264	253
Norfolk	255	260	276	227	230
Suffolk	190	159	166	160	184
Bedfordshire	196	157	146	165	152
Hertfordshire	268	233	210	287	248
Essex	471	427	418	456	438
Thames Valley	517	528	508	529	494
Hampshire	440	387	362	370	360
Surrey	306	233	224	224	281
Kent	456	375	436	429	438
Sussex	321	294	283	293	302
City of London(5)	0	0	0	0	0
Devon and Cornwall	344	289	259	293	290
Avon and Somerset	290	265	266	254	224
Gloucestershire	141	130	119	130	152
Wiltshire	211	187	193	260	241
Dorset	161	147	148	144	140
North Wales	196	212	182	159	181
Gwent	104	113	90	91	112
South Wales	228	216	225	197	202
Dyfed-Powys	207	206	197	168	159
Northern	83	43	62	60	55
Grampian	135	145	126	114	91
Tayside	133	113	105	115	119
Fife	50	52	52	47	36
Lothian and Borders	175	154	141	140	109
Central	47	58	56	50	42
Strathclyde	542	519	480	397	363
Dumfries and Galloway	89	100	73	94	72
Total	15,063	13,616	13,016	13,173	13,178

 

(5) Incorporated into the Metropolitan Police figure.