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A protest campaign over poor walking and cycling safety
- Children are being harmed on Merseyside's roads: Who's responsible?
- Why a protest campaign is needed
- Civil disobedience and road safety: Q and A
Effective road safety planning: what should be happening
What the vision should be- A road safety vision
- Walking safely is a basic human right
- Declaration of every child's right to safe and healthy streets
- Decision making in a democracy: 7 Principles of Public Life
- Effective road safety planning
- What constitutes proper consultation
- Public bodies should avoid 'The patronising disposition of unaccountable power': the Hillsborough Report by the Right Reverend James Jones
- Merseyside road casualties - summary
- Merseyside road casualty maps
- Merseyside pedestrian casualties: the worst in Great Britain
- Merseyside child pedestrian casualties: the third worst in Great Britain
- Liverpool pedestrian casualties: the worst metropolitan borough
- Merseyside cyclist casualties: bottom third position
- Merseyside child cyclist casualties: the fifth worst in Great Britain
- Cyclist casualties: Liverpool is the worst metropolitan borough
- Motorcyclist casualties: Merseyside is the worst metropolitan area
- Motorcyclist casualties: The Wirral is the second worst metropolitan borough
- Car occupant casualties in Merseyside
- Total (all modes) road casualties: Merseyside is the worst metropolitan area
- Total (all modes) road casualties: Liverpool is the third worst metropolitan borough
- Pavement parking: Questions and answers
- Childhood obesity levels in Merseyside
- Deaths from air pollution in Merseyside
Options that should be considered
- Best practice options: policy documents
- Best practice options: Safe System approach to road safety
- Best practice options: 20mph speed limits
- Best practice options: 20mph speed limits: Pedestrian fatality risk and impact speed
- Best practice options: 20mph speed limits: Recommendations
- Best practice options: cycling infrastructure
- Best practice options: actions by police forces against illegal pavement parking
- Best practice options: regulated (permitted) pavement parking
Merseyside road safety failures
- Why children are suffering so much harm from the danger on Merseyside's roads
- Liverpool City Region Road Safety Strategy 2017-2020
- Liverpool City Region Local Journeys Strategy
- Liverpool Council never completed its Inquiry into poor road casualty figures
- Liverpool Council: Appalling cycling infrastructure
- Wirral Council road safety malpractice
- Wirral Council's failing road safety scrutiny committee
- Merseyside Police: failure of public engagement: a case history
- Improvements needed from Merseyside Police
- Why are road safety volunteers having so little effect?
Merseyside / national road safety failures
- How changes in the Highway Code caused the pavement parking confusion
- Why the Living Streets / Guide Dogs pavement parking campaign is inept and dangerous
- Flawed DfT "Consultation" on pavement parking
- Two child pedestrian deaths from pavement parking
- The 2018 Atkins/AECOM/Mayer 20mph Research Study was seriously flawed
Merseyside road safety concerns
So-Mo project on pedestrian casualties- So-Mo project outline
- So-mo project to reduce pedestrians killed or seriously injured on Liverpool's roads: Concerns and questions
- So-Mo meeting on 16th March 2018: Response by Liverpool Pedestrians Association
- So-Mo reports of May 2018: Response by Liverpool Pedestrians Association
Merseyside road safety improvements
- Merseyside Police and Crime Plan 2017 - 2021
- Merseyside Police leading the way in tackling pavement parking
Taking action on poor road safety
Current campaigns
- Voluntary groups
- Vision Zero Merseyside 2013
- Letter to Jane Kennedy and Steve Rotheram re LCR road safety strategy
- Letter to Jane Kennedy and Steve Rotheram: Replies from Jane Kennedy, Steve Rotheram and Sean Traynor
- Meeting notes: Merseyside Road Safety Partnership with Liverpool Pedestrians Association, 27 March 2018
Newsletters
- Newsletters: contents
- Newsletter - August 2018
- Newsletter - 16 December 2017
- Newsletter - 23 November 2017
- Newsletter - 2 November 2017
News
- PCC Scrutiny Group meeting 5 December 2017 - Provisional
- Highlights of the 9th 20mph conference in Birmingham, 8 March 2017
- Merseyside Police Performance and Scrutiny Group meeting of 2 March 2017
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Merseyside road casualties - summary
Effective road safety planning depends on accurate, relevant road casualty and other data. Comparisons with other police areas
Comparing Merseyside with other police areas for reported deaths or serious injuries:- Pedestrians: Merseyside is the worst police area in Great Britain - see here
- Child pedestrians: Merseyside is the third worst police area in Great Britain - see here
- Cyclists: Merseyside is in the bottom third - see here
- Child cyclists: Merseyside is the fifth worst police area in Great Britain - see here
- Motorcyclists: Merseyside is the worst metropolitan area - see here
- Car occupants: see here
- Total (all modes): Merseyside is the worst metropolitan area - see here.
Comparisons with other metropolitan boroughs
Comparing the Merseyside boroughs with other English metropolitan boroughs for reported deaths or serious injuries:- Pedestrians and child pedestrians: Liverpool is the worst metropolitan borough - see here
- Cyclists: Liverpool is the worst metropolitan borough - see here
- Motorcyclists: Wirral is the second worst metropolitan borough - see here
- Total (all modes): Liverpool is the third worst metropolitan borough - see here
Road casualty numbers, charts and locations
For tables and charts of reported road casualties since 2005, go to:- Merseyside: www.travelindependent.org.uk/area_05.html
- Knowsley: www.travelindependent.org.uk/area_031.html
- Liverpool: www.travelindependent.org.uk/area_032.html
- Sefton: www.travelindependent.org.uk/area_033.html
- St Helens: www.travelindependent.org.uk/area_034.html
- Wirral: www.travelindependent.org.uk/area_035.html
About the comparisons with other areas
What is being compared?The data that is collected by police forces on each road traffic injury that they are notified about. They use a four-page form, the STATS19 reporting form - see https://www.wacm.org.uk/files/stats19_from_rrcgb-2014.pdf. The data is collated and published annually by the DfT.
What are metropolitan areas?
The six metropolitan counties in England were created in 1972. They are Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands, and West Yorkshire. Greater London was created separately in 1965.
How was the data obtained for analysis here?
By download from https://data.gov.uk/dataset/road-accidents-safety-data on 15 November 2019.
How complete is the data?
Almost all road deaths are reported, but some serious injuries are not reported and only a minority of slight injuries are reported - see the discussions in the annual DfT reports.
Where else is the data published?
The DfT publishes data for each English highway authority in the spreadsheet file ras30043.ods which can be downloaded from the DfT website https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/ras30-reported-casualties-in-road-accidents, or from https://wacm.org.uk/files/ras30043.ods.
Where are the calculations in full?
For spreadsheets with all the casualty numbers, rates and rankings, see https://www.wacm.org.uk/files/police_and_ha_rankings.xls.
What population data was used?
To calculate casualty rates per 100,000 population, population data from the Office for National Statistics was used. The data file was the mid-2013 population estimates, downloaded 22.1.2015: https://www.wacm.org.uk/files/mye2_population_by_sex_and_age_for_local_authorities_uk.xls
Any "small print" stuff?
The six metropolitan counties in England were created in 1972. They are Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands, and West Yorkshire. Greater London was created separately in 1965.
How was the data obtained for analysis here?
By download from https://data.gov.uk/dataset/road-accidents-safety-data on 15 November 2019.
How complete is the data?
Almost all road deaths are reported, but some serious injuries are not reported and only a minority of slight injuries are reported - see the discussions in the annual DfT reports.
Where else is the data published?
The DfT publishes data for each English highway authority in the spreadsheet file ras30043.ods which can be downloaded from the DfT website https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/ras30-reported-casualties-in-road-accidents, or from https://wacm.org.uk/files/ras30043.ods.
Where are the calculations in full?
For spreadsheets with all the casualty numbers, rates and rankings, see https://www.wacm.org.uk/files/police_and_ha_rankings.xls.
What population data was used?
To calculate casualty rates per 100,000 population, population data from the Office for National Statistics was used. The data file was the mid-2013 population estimates, downloaded 22.1.2015: https://www.wacm.org.uk/files/mye2_population_by_sex_and_age_for_local_authorities_uk.xls
Any "small print" stuff?
- "Car occupant" includes car driver, car passenger, taxi/private hire car occupant, and minibus (8 - 16 passenger seats) occupant, in line with DfT practice.
- "Children" refers to the age range of 0 - 15 years, again in line with DfT practice.
- The London Metropolitan Police and City of London Police are here combined because of the very small population in the City of London.
- The population covered by Northumbria Police is not just Tyne and Wear (1.1 million) but also Northumberland (0.3 million).
Last updated: 11 Jan 2020
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