For Cyclists: CycleStreets.net

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Link: CycleStreets.net

 

...Every year, the Department for Transport issues a massive data release, detailing every reported road collision in Great Britain, what vehicles were involved, and the outcome in injury terms. Known as STATS19, the data contains around 6o pieces of information for every collision – whether slight, serious or fatal. This is excellent work by the DfT who collate this.

 

We’ve plotted every collision, and made available the full details, on a map on our new Bikedata website.

 

The data for 2016 has just been released – we got it online within a few hours of its release.

 

The site is a beta – the two things we want to improve are removing the jumpiness of the icons, and dealing with the question of how to show large numbers of collisions when zoomed out – currently a limit is applied. Zooming in shows all...