Road traffic accidents are, by their very nature, tragic, as it’s possible that they could have been avoided.
The BBC has gathered data from across the UK showing details of traffic accidents and have put them on an interactive map. It’s a project we’ve been thinking about for a while, so can cross it off our to do list now.
Ten years of data
The Beeb has gone one stage further than we’d envisaged, attaching different years worth of data along the bottom, allowing you to step through from 1999 to 2008.
Clicking on the pins in the map, displays the time and date of the crash and number of people and vehicles involved in the crash.
It’s been very well carried out, and when seen together is all the more shocking to see how many people have lost their lives across the Island.
2008 was by far the worst year with ten people losing their lives. Mercifully 2001 only had one fatality.
Here’s a link to the map, which you can double click on to zoom in to see the Island.
There’s also a very moving four-piece article giving a detail description of a road accident that happened in Stevenage. Read it, and you may well drive differently tomorrow.
