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Humberside Safety Camera Partnership highlights the worst crash sites in your area - Kingston Upon Hull
Statistics released by Humberside Safety Camera Partnership show that the areas of Hull with the highest incidence of serious injury and fatal collisions are also the areas where a high proportion of motorists flout the speed limit.
The figures highlight in shocking detail why Humberside Safety Camera Partnership is trying to reduce speed at known collision hot-spots across the former Humberside region.
In Hull itself, the worst-affected areas include the 40mph section of the A1079 Beverley Road, where there were 19 injury crashes and five people were killed or seriously injured, including two children. Astonishingly statistics from the same period also show that 47 per cent of the traffic travelling along that stretch of road exceeded the speed limit.
Another hot-spot was the A165 Freetown way, a 30 mph zone where there were 18 injury crashes and nine people were killed or seriously injured, including one child. Despite this, 64 per cent of the traffic exceeds the speed limit on that stretch of road.
Both sites have been named by Humberside Safety Camera Partnership in a bid to make people aware of the direct link between excessive speed and a high collision rate and encourage people to slow down.
Both are on dual carriageways in built up areas, where pedestrians and cyclists are likely to be around. If you hit a pedestrian or cyclist, their chances of survival are drastically reduced if you’re exceeding the speed limit, even if it’s just by a couple of miles. If you hit a cyclist or pedestrian at 35mph, rather than 30mph, the force of the impact increases by more than a third.
Ruth Gore of Humberside Safety Camera Partnership commented: “All of the sites where we use safety cameras have a history of collisions and excessive speed, but the statistics for these two sites are particularly shocking.
“No-one wants the death of a pedestrian or cyclist on their conscience for the rest of their lives, so please slow down and drive safely
