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And there are also these related threads which splat posted earlier:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread8083.html
http://www.lfgss.com/thread12352.html
Isobel, bare crash stats are a poor guide to what actually goes on; you need cycle counts, too, plus a good deal of junction observation (if you make a junction really complicated you'll either get safer conditions because people are confused or are really worried about the junction even before they get there, promoting safer behaviour, or more unsafe conditions because you increase the number of points at which people can crash into one another).
It would certainly be interesting to see the slight casualties here, too. As these are minor side streets (notwithstanding the fact that they currently attract wildly disproportionate amounts of motor traffic, as in many places like this in London), and as the proportion of slight injuries is normally much higher on side streets than on main streets, they will be far more relevant.