motorcycle road accidents on your street?

[Val]

Hi All,

I was thinking my town is pretty safe and sleepy place apparently that is not the case, you can check your place or your favorite route accidents hot spots here:

https://road-collisions.dft.gov.uk/accident-map/bracknell-forest?Year=All&AccidentSeverity=Fatal,Serious&AgeBand=&VehicleType=Motorcycle%20-%20unknown%20cc,Motorcycle%20125cc%20and%20under,Motorcycle%2050cc%20and%20under,Motorcycle%20over%20125cc%20and%20up%20to%20500cc,Motorcycle%20over%20500cc#map-view

cheers
Val
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[gsxfdumb]

not really accurate, ive had one slight accident and its not recorded on there. police + ambulance in attendance and taken to hospital.

[talkToTheHat]

Mine's on there, was pretty minor. It's quite misleading seeing a big number of accidents at a roundabout only to zoom in and find they're actually spread out across the map
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[kernow24]

was hoping to see mine.... but the years only go up to 2012.

and there's also been a couple of fatals around here over the lass couple of years.

Pretty surprising that there's been about 400 serious or fatal accidents, and 1100 slight accidents in Cornwall since 2005, the majority of those in the 30 or so miles that I usually rode around

[daemonoid]

[Llama-Farmer]

[c_dug]

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Interesting zooming in on North Yorkshire and the number of accidents on the B1222 and around Squires Cafe Bar.

Not unexpected given it's a motorcycle hotspot but still IMO stupidly high given it's a motorcycle hotspot.

Wondering if other motorcycle meeting places suffer the same?
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[Hokum]

Hmm cars much worse than bikes...

Cars
https://cdn.bikechatforums.com/files/cars.jpg

Bikes
https://cdn.bikechatforums.com/files/bikes_121.jpg

Oddly most of the bike accidents seem to be on corners... maybe people just going too fast? Surely not.
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[c_dug]

Bikes add up to maybe 5% the quantity of cars even in a high bike volume area such as London. Fairly sure the usual figure thrown about is 1% for the UK.

Pretty sure that makes the bikes far far worse
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[nelmo]

[Pie-Roe]

Hastings seems to have a few compared to the surrounding area
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[krarkol]

Apparently there was a fatal literally 100 metres from my house in 2009.

I can see the spot it apparently happened (125 vs taxi) and I don't recall ever seeing anything like that

I must have been out...
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[talkToTheHat]

Did the area in the map above yesterday . Most common incident types are right of way violations followed by the accidents involving rural corners mentioned above which are predominately single vehicle.

This report is a little long and a little old but I suspect it is still releveant https://speedcamerareport.co.uk/dft_motorcycle_accidents.pdf

I suspect most of the cornering fails are due to failure to anticipate that most corners on British roads have easement curves that give misleading signals as to the radius.
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[anthony_r6]

Every single one I've checked in my area has involved a motorcycle. Strange.
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