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Interactive road safety map
CollisionMap uses the latest DfT collision data
from 2021 to:
• compare region, council area and postcode
The worst traffic accident hotspots in the revealing the roads where you are most likely
UK and the safest roads to live on, have to have a road accident and those which are
been revealed after analysis of the latest safest.
Department for Transport collision data
statistics by Collisionmap, a free interactive • It is the only interactive map which
road safety mapping tool, developed by allows you to search by postcode to reveal
transport data and mapping company, percentage change in road accidents year on
Buchanan Computing. The tool is designed to year
improve road safety across the UK by allowing
anybody to search accident rates in their • It is also uniquely able to adjust for
postcode area. population density
• It can pinpoint accident hotspots using
Whilst the number of accident and casualties heatmaps in particular postcodes and allows
have increased throughout all regions,
the rate of the year-on-year increase has users to see visualisations down to specific
been markedly different across the regions, roads and exactly where accidents occurred.
resulting in a different picture. Yorkshire and Alex Smith, CEO of Buchanan Computing
Humber region fared the worst with the largest said: “We have developed CollisionMap as
percentage increases, whilst Scotland moved a free and useful resource to improve road
to the best ranking with the smallest level of safety across the UK. It is available for anyone
increase. to use to track accident rates in their postcode
area and compare them to the national
The picture changes again when the
accident data is viewed as a proportion of picture and is already used by a number
the population for each region. London is of Local Authorities around the country to
shown to have the highest rate with 2997 share road safety and accident hotspots
casualties per million population, and Scotland locally. CollisionMap is incredibly detailed so
with a rate just over 3 times lower, has by it will also show you with pinpoint accuracy
far the lowest rate with 939 casualties per on which roads the accidents occurred and
million population. However, when it comes uniquely it also adjusts the collision data
to fatalities, the position is reversed, with according to population density, meaning that
London’s rate of 8, being approximately 3 users can more accurately compare their
times lower than Scotland’s rate of 25 per own location with others or with the national
million population. picture.”
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