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41 A greater reduction in the proportion of all road accident casualties in disadvantaged districts than that for England as a whole (England).
Baseline and trends: Baseline data – 1999–2001 (average of figures for 1999, 2000 and 2001). There has been a greater reduction in the proportion of all road accident casualties in disadvantaged districts than in England as a whole. The number of casualties in road accidents in disadvantaged districts in 2006 has fallen by 23.1 per cent since the baseline, compared with a 19.4 per cent fall in England as a whole.
| Deprived areas | Other areas | England | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers | % change |
Numbers | % change |
Numbers | % change |
|
| Baseline 1999-2001 | 118345 | 199623 | 283508 | |||
1999 |
118268 | -0.1 | 202042 | 1.2 | 285126 | 0.6 |
2000 |
120565 | 1.9 | 199718 | 0.0 | 285721 | 0.8 |
2001 |
116201 | -1.8 | 197108 | -1.3 | 279678 | -1.4 |
2002 |
110819 | -6.4 | 191786 | -3.9 | 269020 | -5.1 |
2003 |
105761 | -10.6 | 184846 | -7.4 | 257899 | -9.0 |
2004 |
99700 | -15.8 | 181140 | -9.3 | 248762 | -12.3 |
| 2005 | 95599 | -19.2 | 175418 | -12.1 | 240484 | -15.2 |
| 2006 | 91056 | -23.1 | 167348 | -16.2 | 228577 | -19.4 |
| Note: Baseline years – 1999–2001 (average of figures for 1999, 2000 and 2001). | ||||||
Definition: An accident is defined as one that involves personal injury occurring on the public highway in which at least one road vehicle or a vehicle in collision with a pedestrian is involved. A casualty is defined as a person killed or injured in an accident. A deprived district is a district that is eligible for the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund. The latest data will be available at the end of 2006 and will be provided on the Opportunity for all website at that time.
Data source: Department for Transport STATS 19 personal injury accident database.
Further information
The Road Casualties Great Britain, 2005 Annual Report can be found at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/accidents/casualtiesgbar/roadcasualtiesgreatbritain2005
Road Casulties: English Local Authority Tables can be found at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/accidents/casualtieslatables/roadcasualtiesenglishlocalau1836
Further Breaks
Rural Urban analysis:
Analysis: Local Authority Classification, England1
Baseline data: 1999-01 Estimates are based on a three year average.
Current data: 2006 with 88 Local Deprived Authorities2 defined
by Neighbourhood Renewal Fund.3
Road Traffic Casualties
This section analyses 350 (out of 354) England Local Authorities (LAs)
and 84 (of the 88) Deprived LAs. Significant Rural4 has
been omitted from both these data frames as there are less than 5 local
authorities
to analyse
and they are made up of urban and rural settlements.
Due to the low number of rural LAs present in the 84 Deprived Authorities,
it is necessary to amalgamate the three Urban categories, Major Urban, Large
Urban and Other Urban and the two Rural categories, Rural R50 and Rural
R80.
Killed:
- The 84 deprived authorities reported a 10% reduction in the number of incidents of people killed in road accidents, compared to 8% for all authorities in England.
- There was a 10% reduction in incidents in urban deprived local authorities, compared with 17% in rural equivalent authorities.
Seriously Injured:
- There was no difference between the percentage decrease for England, and the 84 deprived Local Authorities, (a reduction of 25%) for those seriously injured in road accidents.
- Within the deprived Local Authorities, urban achieved a 25% decrease in incidents compared with a 3% increase in rural deprived authorities.
Slightly Injured:
- The 84 deprived Local Authorities achieved a 24% reduction in those slightly injured in road accidents compared with a 19% reduction for all Local Authorities in England.
- The rural deprived Local Authorities reported a 17% decrease for the urban deprived authorities.
More information at: http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/ruralstats/ofa.htm (this link will take you to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs website). A second report on the Defra Ofa web pages presents an analysis using the Local Authority Classification and all the English Local Authorities.
- Explanation of the Classification at: http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/ruralstats/rural-definition.htm
- Please see http://www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/page.asp?id=536 for the full list of the 88 Deprived Local Authorities
- Neighbourhood Renewal Fund: http://www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/page.asp?id=5
- Significant Rural is made up of rural and urban settlements with more than 37,000 population or between 26% and 50% percent of the population living in the rural settlement. See footnote 1 above for further details.
