Mapped: the UK’s road cycling blackspots

i used to work for a local gov't. we used maps (GIS) like these to identify the problem areas. budget and improvement programmes were made based on them. very useful information to have.

you guys saying this was released to discourage cycling?

I don't think so.

This is the chap who converted it to Google Maps -

http://scraplab.net/2009/03/11/pedal-cycle-incident-data-in-kml.html

This, the original information -

http://innovate.direct.gov.uk/2009/03/10/pedalling-some-raw-data/

As others have pointed out, I'm not sure it's necessarily useful for individual cyclists - busy routes are used more frequently both all road users = increase in accidents, and probably individual experience is more useful. But this sort of thing can be useful to road and cycle route planners.