Presentation
Link to Councillors’ Dashboard Landing:
Councillor Dashboard Landing Page - Power BI
Link to public webpages:
Collision & Casualty Data - Roads and transport (devon.gov.uk)
Decision:
RESOLVED to note the presentation and information regarding the councillors’ dashboard and public webpages on collision and casualty data.
Minutes:
The Committee received a presentation by the Director of Climate Change, Environment and Transport on a website dashboard which provided detailed information on road casualty data in Devon at Devon-wide, District/Parish/ Town Council and electoral division levels.
The Committee were shown how to use the Councillor Dashboard and the wide range of different detailed information and data available to them about collisions on public roads. Members were informed of a video guide on the page which they could watch to show them how to use the site.
Link to Councillors’ Dashboard Landing:
Councillor Dashboard Landing Page - Power BI
Link to public webpages:
Collision & Casualty Data - Roads and transport (devon.gov.uk)
Members’ questions and discussion points with the Officers included:
· There were links to the public dashboards on the site
· The data captured on the site was for a rolling 5 year period containing the latest published data available. Each year this is updated around July.
· Collision data was collected from the police and error checked by road safety officers before being sent to the Department of Transport for publishing annually.
· For more recent current year collisions or for any help and support, then members can contact the Road Safety Team on roadsafetyhelpdesk-mailbox@devon.gov.uk
· Information on the dashboard summarises various factors such as distances from home for injury collisions and the reasons or contributory factors for the incidents such as human errors, problems with the road or vehicle defects.
· Most collision records are recorded by police officers at the scene. But some are self-reported by the public and then interpreted by the police
· The data also showed trends via red or green arrows for up and down and there were red flags to highlight any significant changes
· People using mobile phones when involved in collisions might not always been captured in the data as this might not be witnessed or people might choose not to inform the police they were doing so.
· Road features like bends or road condition are identified under the road environment contributory factors
· Road environment was not normally a major factor in most collisions within Devon.
· Pedestrians involved in collisions and whether this was more of a problem in urban areas. Urban areas have a higher concentration of pedestrian conflicts and injuries.
· More work was underway to enable the dashboards to be interrogated for contributing factors so that there could be more cross referencing e.g. pedestrians involved and impaired by alcohol.
· Members were informed they are able to give detailed information from the dashboard at Parish or Town Council meetings but were asked not to provide hard or electronic copies of this
· It is intended that information on the collision Cluster Sites shown on the dashboard will also be improved to show whether they are being investigated monitored or if improvements are planned.
· Clarification about the Vision Zero South West Partnership which worked as a collective to reduce fatal and serious road casualties in the Devon and Cornwall area to zero.
· How the Partnership operates and how it is funding enforcement where it is needed.
· If there are speeding issues this can be raised with DCC for investigation and police action through SCARF. They can also be identified for enforcement through the Vision Zero South West Community Speed Watch teams and coordinators.
Members thanked the officers for the presentation and the continued work in this area and
RESOLVED to note the presentation and information regarding the councillors’ dashboard and public webpages on collision and casualty data.