The LGA and the BPA frequently quote the AXA Insurance Local Road Safety data to support their desire to install ever more CCTV cameras. Whilst AXA is trying to provide a service of a sort, it's findings are continually being misquoted.
The data can be accessed
HERE Note that the index has a caveat that is never quoted - reproduced below
Quote:
* When considering the Index, statistics have been generated by analysing the roads that are located within
the 500 metre radius around each British school. Figures take into account all incidents regardless of whether they were in school term times or not. They also incorporate both child and adult casualties. The child casualty numbers do not necessarily mean children who belong to that particular school, as they could be residents or children passing through the area. Road Safety Analysis used GIS mapping technology to analyse the roads that are situated within the 500 metre radius around each of the 29,142 UK schools. Official Government statistics from the Department for Transport for 2006-2011 were used to compile this road index.
Unquote
Now do the mathematics. A 500 metre radius equates to an area of 0.9 square mile - or to put it another way almost the same area as the City of London! Note also that the figures also incorporate
"both child and adult casualties"So, given that there are 21,783 primary and secondary schools in England and Wales this gives us a total land area of just over 20,000 square miles. Dividing the "shocking" total of 52,000
incidents by the area we can see that there are 2.6
incidents per square mile
per annum to both adults and children. A very different perspective from the one portrayed by the "think of the poor children" brigade, methinks!
