ROAD ACCIDENT AND CASUALTY REPORT 2006

Suffolk County Council compiles a database of road accidents involving personal injury, occurring on public highways, which have been attended by, or reported to, Suffolk Constabulary.   Accidents are categorised according to their casualty injury severity: fatal, serious or slight as judged by the Police officer making the accident report.

This report details the main findings of analyses carried out on accidents occurring in 2006.   Trends in accident and casualty numbers are also examined over longer time periods and those of particular modes of transport and age groups.

• Killed or Seriously Injured ("KSI") casualties are down from 381 in 2005, to an all-time-low of 359, a decrease of 6%, and is 63 below the 2001-2005 5-year average of 422.

• There were 47 fatalities in 2006, matching the 5-year average between 2001 and 2005 .  

• Slight casualties have decreased from 2674 in 2005 to 2547 in 2006.   The 2006 figure is 157 lower than the 2001-2005 5-year average of 2704.

• The 2006 child KSI casualty figure of 25 is the second lowest ever seen in Suffolk and equals the target set for 2010, however the challenge will be to keep it at this low level.

National Casualty Reduction Targets

In 'Tomorrows Roads - Safer for Everyone 2000', the government set three casualty reduction targets to be achieved by 2010.   The baseline for the target in each case is the 1994-1998 average figure:

•  a 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI);

•  a 50% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured (KSI); and

•  a 10% reduction in the number of people slightly injured.

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Casualty Reduction Targets

Suffolk County Council sets annual road casualty reduction targets for killed and seriously injured (KSI) and slight injuries (Sl) in the county. The following graphs indicate our progress towards these targets. (updated February 2008)

Graph 1: Blue line shows a target reduction to 346 for killed or seriously injured in 2007. The red line shows our cumulative position to date.

Graph 2: Blue line shows a target reduction to 32 for children aged 0-15 killed or seriously injured in 2007. The red line shows our cumulative position to date.

Graph 3: Blue line shows a target reduction to 2646 for slight injuries in 2007. The red line shows our cumulative position to date.

Note: All red line figures are provisional.

Graph 4: A year by year bar chart from 1994 to 2007 (to date) indicating fatal collisions and fatal casualties.

The total KSI casualty target for 2008 is a reduction to 322.