Road Deaths - When, to whom etc.

[Davidc]

I came across this on the BBC web site. Click a few times and it shows loads of information on road deaths. Who dies, their age, what time of day, and loads more. It may be of interest to some.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2009/crash/8414354.stm

 

[Globalti]

Fascinating site!

 

[rich p]

Well if you want to be involved another CC roundabout discussion on the matter, I suggest you go here

http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=50694

 

[Noodley]

I've been on the site for ages this afternoon - very interesting.

 

[Noodley]

Well if you want to be involved another CC roundabout discussion on the matter, I suggest you go here

Much better leaving it at the chatting level of Cafe than venture into the Campaign thread...

 

[Davidc]

I put it there for interest more than for discussion. When I came across it like Noodley I just found the information fascinating and spent far too long looking at it.

 

[rich p]

Much better leaving it at the chatting level of Cafe than venture into the Campaign thread...

I agree. I can argue for England if necessary but I draw the line against banging my head against a brick wall

 

[slowmotion]

That site is a very grim place. What really leaps out is the slaughter of 17 to 25 year olds in the evening and night. Their pie chart segment would probably look a whole lot worse if it was expressed as miles travelled by that age group, but I'm just guessing that. The prospect of my daughter being driven back from a party by a tanked-up young man who has absolutely no concept of his own mortality makes me very scared indeed.

 

[vernon]

That site is a very grim place. What really leaps out is the slaughter of 17 to 25 year olds in the evening and night.

I wouldn't call it a slaughter as much of it is self inflicted.

 

[Steve Austin]

..... What really leaps out is the slaughter of 17 to 25 year olds in the evening and night. Their pie chart segment would probably look a whole lot worse if it was expressed as miles travelled by that age group, but I'm just guessing that. The prospect of my daughter being driven back from a party by a tanked-up young man who has absolutely no concept of his own mortality makes me very scared indeed.

Why do say slaughter? it records all accidents, and i think some of those statistics will be made up of 'accidents'. At least thats the way i'm interpreting it.

 

[rich p]

Funnily enough, I was discussing with some friends the other day about how we used to drink and drive as youngsters in the early 70's but our children iin their 20's now would be horrified and never do now. They seem to have far more sense than I did at their age.

 

[very-near]

Funnily enough, I was discussing with some friends the other day about how we used to drink and drive as youngsters in the early 70's but our children iin their 20's now would be horrified and never do now. They seem to have far more sense than I did at their age.

They still drive like knobs though with very little awareness of what might be around the corner or any forward planning as to how they might deal with it. There is a 1 in 5 chance they are going to have an accident within the 1st 12 months of getting behind the wheel. Nearly every one of my kids mates have either picked up points or had a prang within 2 years of passing their test (my own kid included). Lack of experience and hormones has a lot to answer for.

 

[ColinJ]

That site is a very grim place. What really leaps out is the slaughter of 17 to 25 year olds in the evening and night. Their pie chart segment would probably look a whole lot worse if it was expressed as miles travelled by that age group, but I'm just guessing that. The prospect of my daughter being driven back from a party by a tanked-up young man who has absolutely no concept of his own mortality makes me very scared indeed.

When I was in my early 20s, I was being given a lift back from Great Malvern to Coventry by a drunken mate. His driving wasn't too bad until a young woman in a sports car overtook him, giving him a cheeky wave as she did so. Red rag to a bull... What followed was a horribly dangerous high-speed pursuit down some fairly minor roads. I really thought that we were going to die. We had several near misses and then came to a section of road with signs indicating road works ahead. The woman disappeared round a bend ahead and my friend floored the throttle to try and catch her. As the bend started to open out in front of us, we screamed in unison when we saw that we were bearing down on a row of traffic cones behind which a huge steamroller was parked. Scores of cones were sent flying as my mate wrestled with the wheel. We missed the steamroller by inches. If we'd hit that thing at that speed, I'm pretty sure that all of us would have been killed. Suddenly sobered, we slowed down and let the sports car get away...

I continued seeing SS (my stepdaughter - SS = Step-Sprogette) after The Big Bust-up with her mother. Typically, she would come round once a week for a meal and a chat. One such evening, SS was watching TV while I was cooking the meal. I heard her phone ring, then an increasingly agitated conversation taking place. Something didn't sound right. Suddenly, there was an anguished cry, followed by sobbing. I ran in from the kitchen and found SS in floods of tears, her mobile at her feet. The 17 year old sister of one of her friend's had been killed in a car accident the previous night, caused by her drunken boyfriend losing control at high speed driving back from a country pub. SS told me that he always drove too fast, and was usually drunk. She had been given a lift by him herself a couple of times...

Yes, alcohol and driving do not make great partners.