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 Posted: 12:27 - 21 Mar 2013 Post subject: Most dangerous town/city for motorcyclists? |
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Riding home from work the other night I saw the aftermath of someone having pulled out on a motorcyclist. It was at the same junction I've seen many-a-car mashed up, much to my confusion cos I really can't see anything confusing or difficult about it, but that's besides the point.
It got me thinking, I wonder if there is a most dangerous town/city in the UK to be a motorcyclist and what the contributing factors towards the reasons it being more dangerous might be?
So take St Helens for example, where I work. It's a grim industrial town with many lorries travelling it's roads - LOTS of diesel spills. On my journeys to and from work I very rarely see another motorcyclist - I do wonder if the lack of motorcyclists means people are less likely to be keeping an eye out for them due to lack of awareness that they even exist?! Many of the streets are full terraced houses with no driveways - meaning hoards of cars parked on the street just itching to pull out on unsuspecting bikes. It can get massively congested when just one road has a blockage (accident/roadworks etc.) and so people do some crazy things. The motorcycle and car testing centre is also based there, which means many learners about, which again can make some idiots get all frustrated and do silly things.
I am of course sure that St Helens will pale in comparison to some towns/cities (London maybe?!) in terms of the amount of potential hazards to motorcyclists - I'm interested to hear the stories of the great BCF. I found this story about the county of Gloucestershire which had some interesting statistics for that area but I can't seem to find anything which talks about cities all over the UK:
https://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/798-bikers-killed-injured-Gloucestershire-roads/story-15942686-detail/story.html#axzz2OAxytMZ1
TL;DR - Who lives/works in the most dangerous town/city to motorcycle in!? Let the battle commence! ____________________ What would you do in life, if you knew you could not fail?
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Anywhere with a good concentration of clubs at around 3am is going to be up there on the list. Drunk boy racers showing off to their passengers is why a piece of street furniture gets damaged overnight about once a week around here. They make it outside Southend on the way home and take themselves out on the first roundabout, first big corner, etc, because they're too fucked to read the road properly. Then the police lower the speed limits for everyone, as if that'll help.
They sure as hell don't look out for motorcyclists at that time of night. Might as well be invisible.
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North London.
Why? My mum lives there and drives her range every day, and she is probably the worst driver on this earth.
Good luck Londoners, we will need it  ____________________ "90% of all statistics are made up"
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In North London, The A5 Cricklewood Broadway Juction with Manstone Rd seen so many bikes get taken out there, going north the traffic slows and the cars just use the other side of the road to jump the queue and turn right into Manstone normally without looking behind them  ____________________ The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train! |
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Thanks for digging those out! Very interesting. Shame the interactive map only goes up to 2008 but been having a little play with some different postcodes. 44 deaths in merseyside compared to 74 deaths in lancashire (but that does seem to cover a larger area. % of motorbike accidents seems to stay about the same.
It's quite depressing looking at the details of each incident - seeing the ages of all the fatalities
EDIT: Looking at the stats for London there is a much smaller gap between the percentage of accidents involving bikes and the percentage of accidents involving cars than there is elsewhere I've looked so far. So seems my original thoughts may have been right - London is most dangerous for bikes... but I wonder where outside of London? ____________________ What would you do in life, if you knew you could not fail?
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 Posted: 16:46 - 22 Mar 2013 Post subject: Re: Most dangerous town/city for motorcyclists? |
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| yaigi wrote: | Riding home from work the other night I saw the aftermath of someone having pulled out on a motorcyclist. It was at the same junction I've seen many-a-car mashed up, much to my confusion cos I really can't see anything confusing or difficult about it, but that's besides the point.
It got me thinking, I wonder if there is a most dangerous town/city in the UK to be a motorcyclist and what the contributing factors towards the reasons it being more dangerous might be?
So take St Helens for example, where I work. It's a grim industrial town with many lorries travelling it's roads - LOTS of diesel spills. On my journeys to and from work I very rarely see another motorcyclist - I do wonder if the lack of motorcyclists means people are less likely to be keeping an eye out for them due to lack of awareness that they even exist?! Many of the streets are full terraced houses with no driveways - meaning hoards of cars parked on the street just itching to pull out on unsuspecting bikes. It can get massively congested when just one road has a blockage (accident/roadworks etc.) and so people do some crazy things. The motorcycle and car testing centre is also based there, which means many learners about, which again can make some idiots get all frustrated and do silly things.
I am of course sure that St Helens will pale in comparison to some towns/cities (London maybe?!) in terms of the amount of potential hazards to motorcyclists - I'm interested to hear the stories of the great BCF. I found this story about the county of Gloucestershire which had some interesting statistics for that area but I can't seem to find anything which talks about cities all over the UK:
https://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/798-bikers-killed-injured-Gloucestershire-roads/story-15942686-detail/story.html#axzz2OAxytMZ1
TL;DR - Who lives/works in the most dangerous town/city to motorcycle in!? Let the battle commence! | I live in st helens which road was the motorcyclist knocked off ? ____________________ Your backside is better enough for you to run again, if need be – bristle up the courage of the cornered rat, put on a bold front, and to hell with them. Bluff my boy – bluff, shift and lie for the sake of your neck and the honour of Old England |
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| yaigi wrote: | EDIT: Looking at the stats for London there is a much smaller gap between the percentage of accidents involving bikes and the percentage of accidents involving cars than there is elsewhere I've looked so far. So seems my original thoughts may have been right - London is most dangerous for bikes... |
You may be falling for the base rate fallacy. There are a lot of bikes in London; without knowing the difference in the ratio of bikes to cars in London vs elsewhere, you don't have enough information to determine if it is in fact relatively more dangerous for bikes.
I think bikes are ridden more aggressively in London traffic, but also that drivers are more aware of them. ____________________ Bikes: S1000R, SH350; Exes: Vity 125, PS125, YBR125, ER6f, VFR800, Brutale 920, CB600F, SH300x4
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Milton Keynes.
It shouldn't be, it should be one of the safest places to ride or drive except for one amazingly stupid idea from the road planners.
Where estates come out onto NSL dual carriageways the have put a break in the central reservation and allowed vehicles to turn right. Fucking idiots turning right from standstill across 70mph cars and bikes is not condusive to keeping your pants clean. The amount of accidents is horrendous.
The should have made them left turn only with a slip road. It's not like you have to go very far to the next roundabout.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 12 years, 319 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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