A brief record of road collision data in Ireland. Presented by: Desmond O Connor Date: 24 th Sep 2012 Venue: Engineers Ireland, Clyde Road

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1 A brief record of road collision data in Ireland Presented by: Desmond O Connor Date: 24 th Sep 2012 Venue: Engineers Ireland, Clyde Road

2 A collision is a rare, random, multi-factor event preceded by a situation in which one or more road users have failed to cope with their environment

3 *Information sourced from correct as of 20 Sept 2012

4 Equivalent numbers Persons Killed on Irish Roads Jan 1959 to Sep 2012 Total Persons Killed 23, Boeing 747s (524 passengers per plane) Population of Leitrim 31,798 as recorded in 2011 census

5 Who collects the details? An Garda Síochána, Hospitals, Insurance Companies, Local Authorities What details are collected? People, Vehicle, Environmental & Road Conditions Where can you find out more information? Annual Road Collision Facts, EuroRAP, published peer reviewed papers etc.

6 Data collection benchmarking report In general we have found that the process for collecting road collision data in Ireland are in line with good practice elsewhere in Europe. The content of the road collision data forms is amongst the best of those we looked at Risk Solutions Report for the NRA 2012 Generic Master List* Core Data Only Considered** IRE IRE UK NL DE PC16 / CT68s LA16 Police TRA form Form STATS 19 (2005) (1995) (2009) (1992) DeSTATIS Incident Reference Information Circumstances Vehicles People Contributory Factors Total generic factors covered % generic factors covered 100% 37% 13% 32% 38% 27% * culmination of all relevant data fields found in assessing police road collision data collection forms ** filtered list of relevant fields for a more direct comparison

7 Data collection benchmarking report Ireland % of collisions USA % of collisions UK % of collisions NRA National roads, All roads, Highways Agency single carriageway roads, 2007 to 2010 No contributory factor 31.27% No contributory factor 0% No contributory factor 4.91% Driver only, Pedestrian only, or both Environment only, Road only, or both 63.28% Human only 57.1% Driver only 70.18% 3.24% Environment only 3.3% Road/Environment only 5.17% Vehicle only 0.20% Vehicle only 2.4% Vehicle only 0.54% Driver & Environment or Driver & Road or all three 1.94% Human & Environment 26.4% Driver & Road/Environment 14.51% Driver & Vehicle 0.07% Human & Vehicle 6.2% Driver & Vehicle 1.52% Vehicle & Environment or Vehicle & Road Driver/Pedestrian, Environment/Road and Vehicle 0% Vehicle & Environment 1.2% Vehicle & Road/Environment 2.87% 0% Human, Environment & Vehicle 2.9% Driver, Road/Environment & Vehicle 0.30% NRA / Risk Solution Report, 2012

8 What s special about spatial? Knowing where things are and why is essential to rational decision making Jack Dangermond President of ESRI 1998 ESRI user conference San Diego Geospatial information can act as a thread that can be used to integrate information from heterogeneous sources. It does so by exploiting common location information components that often exist across different domains Glen Hart & Catherine Dolbear Chapter 4, The Geospatial Web 2007 Springer

9 High Accident Locations Vol 1. The Principal Inter Urban Roads April 1971 EuroRAP 2008: Ireland Results Risk & Star rating of Irelands major roads May 2008

10 High Accident Locations Vol 1. The Principal Inter Urban Roads April 1971

11 Concluding remarks Like many other countries the history of road collisions in Ireland is immeasurable in terms of hurt and grief for those effected by serious and fatal collisions The quality and completeness of road collision data can always be improved but its important to acknowledge that Ireland has some of the best data available An effective program of countermeasures, weather engineering or enforcement focused, is likely to make itself redundant over time. Consequently deciding the most appropriate safety countermeasure to deploy will become more difficult as collisions become increasingly rare and random Despite the current economic climate we are unlikely to be collecting less information about our roads and the collisions that occur on them then we currently are. So its important that the next Road Safety Strategy support the analysis of these new data