Over the past decade, Transport for London (TfL) and London boroughs have made great progress in making the Capital’s roads safer, reducing the number of casualties and improving the road network for all road users. This Annual Report reviews recent trends and will support the Safe Streets for London plan; the Mayor’s Vision for Cycling; outcomes from the Roads Task Force and build on the progress in making roads safer over the past decade. TfL is working on innovative ways to present data for future reports by combining the collision and casualty - Stats19 - data with additional data sources to provide further insight. For example, applying MOSAIC analysis; making better use of the enhanced vehicle data held by the Department for Transport; Hospital Episode Statistics and information from the Trauma Audit Research Network. Further insight into the risk experienced by different road users will be gained by linking the Stats 19 data with data from the London Travel Demand Survey to enable London’s road safety practitioners to better target safety interventions. TfL is seeking to share this data more widely, to provide intelligence to and receive intelligence from, organisations such as the London Fire Brigade, the Metropolitan and City Police Services and the London Ambulance Service. Building on our recent progress in publishing collision and casualty data for London online on TfL’s website, new web-based tools to access the data will be developed to share information more easily with stakeholders, boroughs and to track progress. This new approach to data use and data sharing will underpin wider innovations in London designed to meet the Mayor’s target of a 40% reduction in Killed and Seriously Injured collisions by 2020. These are set out in Safe Streets for London and other documents and include measures such as the development of SCOOT technology for pedestrians and cyclists, the introduction of additional pedestrian countdown at traffic signals and a ‘critical list’ of locations on the Transport for London Road Network (TLRN) in need of remedial engineering measures. Other initiatives include creating a London Vehicle Innovation Task Force; equipping boroughs with the skills needed to implement road safety improvements; focusing on police enforcement; making the best use of innovative marketing and education resources and carrying out trials of innovative cycling measures. The 2012 Annual Report provides information on personal injury road traffic collisions and casualties in Greater London during 2012, compared to both 2011 and the average for 2005-2009. This is the baseline against which TfL measures progress towards the target of a 40 per cent reduction in Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) casualties by 2020, as set out in Safe Streets for London (SSfL), London’s Road Safety Action Plan to 2020. Data is presented for personal injury road traffic collisions occurring on the public highway, and reported to the police, in accordance with the Stats 19 national reporting system. The Greater London area comprises the 32 London boroughs and the City of London. It is the largest metropolitan area in Great Britain. The information set out here should be understood in the context of the Department for Transports national and regional policy on road safety, as set out by the new national Strategic Framework for Road Safety (SFRS), published in May 2011; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-framework-for-road…. The SFRS sets out the policies that are intended to continue to reduce deaths and injuries on the roads and it encourages local authorities to continue to improve road safety by adopting policies that reflect local priorities and circumstances. The SFRS contains forecasts of expected casualty reductions at a national level from the 2005- 09 average. In June 2013, Transport for London published Safe Streets for London, the Road Safety Action Plan for London 2020, this sets a new target of a 40% reduction in KSIs by 2020, measured against the 2005-9 average baseline; http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/safe-streets-for-londo…. This Annual Report presents a summary of progress to date towards meeting London’s new road safety target, and a detailed breakdown of road casualties, collisions and vehicle details. Annual changes in collisions and casualties during 2012 should be considered in the context of long term casualty trends in London, as fluctuations year on year are not always indicative of longer term trends. It should also be noted that large percentage changes in small numbers may not necessarily be statistically significant. A total of 24,059 road traffic collisions, involving personal injury within Greater London, were reported to the Metropolitan and City Police during 2012. This is a 2% reduction in collisions compared with 2011. These resulted in 28,780 casualties, a decrease of 2% compared to the 29,257 recorded in 2011. In 2012, 134 people were fatally injured, 2,884 were seriously injured, and 25,762 were slightly injured in Greater London. In considering casualties in more detail, fatalities fell by 16% (159 to 134), to the second lowest level since recent records began while KSI casualties increased by 8% in 2012 (2,805 to 3,018) compared to 2011. Within KSIs, the number of serious injuries increased by 9% (2,646 to 2,884). Slight injuries fell by 3% (26,452 to 25,762) in 2012, compared with 2011. Vulnerable road users (pedestrians, pedal cyclists and powered two wheeler users) made up half of all casualties on London’s roads in 2012. Comparing the number of casualties in 2012 against the longer term 2005-09 baseline, fatal casualties were down by 36%, KSI casualties were down by 17% and within this group, the number of child KSI casualties were down by 18%. However, slight casualties were up by 1%. When considering different vulnerable road user groups over this period, pedestrian KSIs were down by 8% and powered two wheel user KSIs were down by 21% in 2012, against the 2005-09 baseline. Pedal cyclist KSI casualties were up 60% in 2012 against the 2005-09 baseline; however this increase should be seen in the context of a considerable increase in cycling over a number of years. During 2012, casualties in Greater London accounted for 15% of those in Great Britain as a whole, with KSI casualties accounting for 12%. In Great Britain, fatalities fell by 8 per cent in 2012 compared to 2011; however cyclist and child fatalities increased, by 10 per cent and 2 per cent respectively. The number of serious casualties in Great Britain fell by less than a percentage point in 2012, compared to 2011, and serious casualties increased amongst pedal cyclists and pedestrians; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reported-road-casualties-gre… annual-report-2012 Using the latest Department for Transport figures, the cost to the community of collisions in Greater London for the year 2012 is estimated to be around £2.26 billion at 2011 prices. This is the 25th annual report published by Transport for London and its predecessor organisations. Further analysis of London’s collision and casualty data, including data extract files, can be found at http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadsafety. (Author/publisher)
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