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Safety Outside Schools

Presentation by Marc Griffin – Assistant Head of Service

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Average annual child pedestrian casualties per head of population

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• Portsmouth has high child pedestrian casualties per size of population with casualties being 50%

higher than national average

• Portsmouth has the highest walk to school rate in the country with over 70% of children walking to

school every day which will result in higher casualties.

• Since 2004 we have seen an overall downward trend in child pedestrian casualties from an

average of 56 per year down to an average of 39 per year with no fatalities during that period.

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Average annual child cyclist casualties per head of population

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• Portsmouth has high child cycling casualties per size of population, with casualties being

double the national average, however cycling levels in the City are also double the national average.

• During the last decade there has been little change in casualty levels of child cycling casualties

with an average of 26 per year throughout.

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Portsmouth child pedestrian casualties 2009 - 2013

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• Child pedestrian casualties largely remain consistent during last 5 year period
• Strong reduction since 2011.

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Portsmouth 2009 to 2013 Child Pedestrian Casualties by key stage 1&2 (5 to 10) 3&4 (11 to 16)

• Key stage 1&2 fairly consistent
• Key stage 3&4 showing reduction over last 5 years

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Child pedestrian casualties Key Stage 1&2 during school times

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Child pedestrian casualties Key Stage 3&4 during school times

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Pedestrian casualties by time of day – key stage 1&2*

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*Female 28 Male 47

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Pedestrian casualties by time of day – key Stage 3 & 4*

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*Female 46 Male 53

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Child pedestrian casualties by month

Key Stage 1&2

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Key Stage 3&4

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Child pedestrian casualties

Key Stage 1&2 Contributory Factors:

• Out of 75 accidents two contributory factors stand out for pedestrians
• 61 cases of 'Ped failed to look properly'
• 24 cases of 'Crossed behind parked cars'
• In most cases the driver is not attributed blame
• 30mph 42 accidents (56%) 20mph 32 accidents (43%)
• this split would indicate that these peds spend less time on the higher casualty main

30mph roads as the 20mph roads would normally have a lower share of casualties. Key road safety needs

• Education - Intensive child pedestrian training/engagement to teach children to look

properly.

• Physical engineering – upgrades to key routes in order to provide a better chance of

children avoid children crossing from behind parked cars.

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Keystage 3&4 Ped Contributory Factors

• Out of 93 accidents four contributory factors stand out
• 15 cases of 'Driver failed to look properly'
• 56 cases of 'Ped failed to look properly'
• 20 cases of 'Crossing from behind parked cars'
• 29 cases of 'Careless, Reckless or in a hurry'
• Again - in most cases the driver is not attributed blame although with this age group

drivers have more responsibility with 15 cases of them failing to look properly.

• 30mph 71accidents (66%) this is a split we’d expect to see
• 20mph 26 accident (26%)
• A key problem at stage 3&4 they have a high proportion of accidents on the main 30mph

roads where crossing infrastructure is wide spread.

• Of the 76 accidents in these roads only 24 occurred at crossings and 11 of those were at

light controlled crossings but the ped didn’t wait for the signal so effectively only 13 were at crossing points on roads where they are widely available.

• Key road safety need

Road Safety needs

• Education – get pedestrians to use the crossings along the main roads
• raise awareness of the other causes

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Portsmouth child cycle casualties 2009 to 2013

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• Hampshire wide spike in 2011 but largely consistent levels.
• Spike is often attributed to the severe weather conditions and the pinch of the

economic down turn with more journeys being taken by bike or walking.

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Child cycle casualties key by key stage

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• Key stage 1&2 cycle casualties are so low that trends are difficult to find

with any reliability.

• Key stage 3&4 has remained consistent.

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Child cycle casualties by month

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Key stage 1 & 2 Key stage 3 & 4

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Child cycle casualties by time*

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*Female 5 Male 18

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Child cycle casualties by time*

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*Female 29 Male 100

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Keystage 1&2 cyclist contributory factors

• One contributory factor stands out - 13 cases of failing to look properly - includes cyclists and drivers

(blame is very difficult to attribute). Road Speed

• 20mph 9 39%
• 30mph 14 61%
• As is consistent with cycle casualties for all ages, the majority occur on the main 30mph roads.
• Only 48% of accidents occur at junctions. This is most likely due to the younger children cycling on

the pavement and keeping to 20mph roads. Helmet Use

• In only in one of the 23 (5 x female 18 males) accidents it was recorded the casualty was wearing a

helmet Road Safety Needs Education – cycle training Engineering – improving infrastructure for all cyclists at high casualty sites

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Keystage 3&4 cyclist contributory factors

Out of 129 accidents two contributory factors stand out for cyclists :

• 35 cases of 'Cyclist entering road from pavement'
• 76 cases of 'Failed to look properly' - this is both cyclists and drivers
• 95 (74%) accidents occur at junctions and the majority of these incidents result from

drivers failing to see the cyclist and this is in line with all cycle collisions.

• Road Speed
• 20mph 34 accidents (26%)
• 30mph 86 accidents (67%)
• As is consistent with cycle casualties for all ages, the majority occur on the main 30mph

roads.

• Helmet use
• Only in one of the 129 (29 female 100 male) accidents it was recorded the casualty was

wearing a helmet. Road Safety Needs Education – cycle training- uptake is currently low at secondary

• raise awareness of key causes of collision
• high casualties from 3pm to 8pm so visibility is important

Engineering – improving infrastructure for all cyclists at high casualty sites

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