Road Safety Foundation - A34 statistics

 A34, section M4 to M40
·         This road is a trunk road (Highways England is the road authority)
·         Section length 53.8km or 33.4 miles
·         Number of KSI crashes in latest 3 year period (2012 to 2014) = 50
·         6 of which involved a fatality (so there are at least 6 fatalities on this stretch in this 3 year period)
·         Out of the 50 KSI crashes…1 involved a KSI to a vulnerable road user; 17 were at a junction; 17 were run-off road crashes, there were no head-on crashes (the road is divided); 11 shunt/rear-end type crash; and 4 KSI crashes recorded as ‘other’
·         All 6 crashes involving a fatality occurred in a 70mph zone
·         34 of the 50 KSI crashes where a serious injury occurred happened in a 70 zone.
·         KSI crashes per mile = 1.49
·         For our risk mapping this road has a KSI rate of 14.4 which equates to a band 2 (coloured yellow on our risk maps). Yellow = “low-medium risk road”.  Note KSI rate is KSI crashes per vehicle kilometre travelled.

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Accident data

For details on the risk of the road, and the severity and distribution of the road, visit CrashMap (http://www.crashmap.co.uk/), a website designed to give public access to road safety data.
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