Mapped: the UK’s road cycling blackspots

http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/03/11/uk-cycling-accidents/

Larger map here:
http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/2009/cycling_accidents/

:-O

Whitechapel road westbound is a solid line of blobs, I see. face of no great surprise

Excellent mashup though.

It's a bit meaningless in it's current form, so perfect for the media. It needs to be done in accidents per 1000 journeys in that area at a bare minimum. Also it really needs to take into account the severity of the accident. Lots more needs to be done to get any meaningful info from it.

I'm gonna stick to the M25 from now on...........

Oooh. I'm one of those red dots, right next to Kew Bridge. Smashed a very nice bike it did.

...i'm going back to Belfast.

Yes, as Tommy says, these graphical representations of the incidence of collisions fail to convey the fact that the total number of trips made by pedal cycle is so much higher than the number of collisions that the likelihood of crashing is very small indeed.

As for main streets, they are the streets that carry the highest flows of traffic, and they are where most cyclists go. It's therefore never surprising to find the highest number of collisions there.

France looks very safe.

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?

France looks very safe.

& the Isle of Man.

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.

blimey, there are 5 spots right out side ealing hospital, that was handy.

Doesn't this map chart the use of bicycles as a mode of transport and the population density in general, i.e. lots of cyclists = lots of incidents, no cyclists = no incidents.

Doesn't this map chart the use of bicycles as a mode of transport and the population density in general, i.e. lots of cyclists = lots of incidents, no cyclists = no incidents.

Yes, but without info on the flow to collision ratio, it paints a distorted picture. Risk decreases as more people take up cycling.

Back streets for the win.