November 24th, 2016

Map

As a follow-on from my previous blog. Here is a map showing the ratio of people per traffic accidents. This should better reflect the significance of traffic accidents in areas of sparse population (compared to our major cities). The same references to data sources and units of analyses apply. This theory may be part-proven, it seems.

​I had thought that more rural parts of England might appear in the 'worst areas' compared with the previous map (which provided just a count of traffic accidents in 2015 by a type of Census area). I had this image of Merc, BMW and Range Rover 4x4s down from London careering around blind bends and smacking into cyclists and pedestrians.  
​In addition, there are a good number of rural areas where there were no recorded traffic accidents in 2015- perhaps this is down to good road sense, but it might also be down to unrecorded 'knock for knock' accidents between vehicles, where no one is hurt, and no one wants to lose their no claims bonus.
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