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Our Road Safety Vision
It is our vision that every route and every mode of road travel should be available to everybody, free from the risk or fear of harm. We aim to utilise data to reduce casualties and increase road safety through educational programs and providing intelligence to help shape the safety policies of partner agencies.
What We Do
- We undertake our statutory duty to investigate collisions; the Road Safety Act 1988 placed a duty on local highway authorities to “prepare and carry out a programme of measures designed to promote road safety”. Our road casualty statistics dashboard-style reports form part of our responsibility to study the occurrence of collisions and reveals the where, when, who and why behind the collision data collected by the Police.
- The road casualty data we use is collected from Devon & Cornwall Police and we undertake data cleansing using Department for Transport (DfT) guidelines. More on collection/release of data.
- We produce various detailed collision and casualty dashboard-style reports for specific road user groups and geographical areas, such as councillor area profiles.
- We provide intelligence on specific routes and locations with higher concentrations of collisions, for example A & B road route analysis as shown in a dashboard below. This is essential in shaping priorities inside and outside of the Road Safety team – including Transport Planning (for the Local Transport Plan), Highways Maintenance, Highways Development Management and Public Health.
- Use collision data to build evidence-led education programs tailored to groups of various road users e.g. driving courses for younger and older drivers, motorcyclists and business drivers These programs are produced in conjunction with partner agencies through the Vision Zero South West Road Safety Partnership.
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High Harm Routes
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We’ve worked with the Vision Zero South West Partnership to identify High Harm Routes. This covers the A and B road network across the whole of Devon and Cornwall area. The scoring of each route segment is collision density based. It’s calculated by dividing the number of collisions by the route length, and also includes a severity weighting for fatal and serious injury collisions. More on the methodology of the route scoring and ranking here.
The results of the Vision Zero High Harm Routes analysis for the Devon County Council area A and B roads can be found in the map dashboard below. Each route segment is displayed with a colour legend according to the collision performance score. Red routes are those in the worst performing quintile (top fifth) of all A and B road route segments across the whole of the Devon and Cornwall area. Zoom in and click on a route in the map to display statistics on the collisions that occurred within the route segment.
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Data Publication Timescales
We release collision data a year at a time, usually in May the following year:
These milestones are interlinked with the Department for Transport (DfT) timelines; it takes up to April/May time to fully collect, check and validate the data with the DfT. Our maps and dashboards are then updated around May time.
This year we will be also publishing performance data comparing Devon’s trends with National data, and the initial provisional data will be released in July with confirmed figures updated and released in October time.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Do you have more questions on collision and casualty data? If so please visit our Data FAQ’s page.
Useful links
- Let us know if a collision has been plotted incorrectly via collisiondata@devon.gov.uk
- Max Driver educational programmes
- Travel Devon for your best travel options, inc cycle maps and training
- ‘Better Together’ which proposes new self-empowering partnerships to help people and communities control their own future.
- GOV.UK Road Accidents and Safety Statistics Guidance
- The Department for Transport
- Road Safety Knowledge Centre Information Directory
- EuroRAP Performance Safety Tracking of Europe’s Roads
- EuroNCAP Independent Car Safety Assessments
We take accessibility seriously and have incorporated accessibility functionality to our power BI dashboard style reports to allow content to be as accessible as possible. If you find some of the information not accessible, need guidance or an alternative format email collisiondata@devon.gov.uk with details of any preferred format and the assistive technology you use.