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Collision Statistics 2006 - 2008

  • 19-11-2010 7:28pm
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    mathepac
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    Browsing through the stats Uncle Gaybo supplied us with on his web-site, http://www.rsa.ie/en/RSA/Road-Safety/Our-Research/Ireland-Road-Collisions/ makes for some interesting (and IMHO surprising) reading.

    Using the data supplied for all three years for all collision types, there is a reasonably even spread of collisions across all the days of the week, the high being Friday at 15.20% and the low being Wednesday at 13.25% with 45% of all collisions occurring Friday to Sunday (lower than I'd anticipated).

    Gaybo's number crunchers have split the days into chunks and here is where the real surprises came for me :
    • 67% of all collisions occurred between the hours of 07:00 and 19:00 (high traffic volumes admittedly but presumably less drunken or speeding pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, etc.)
    • 85% between the hours of 07:00 and 23:00 and
    • a miserly 15% between 23:00 and 07:00 which is a big surprise.
    The numbers are interesting and the preliminary 2009 figures, which apparently are now available and used elsewhere on the site, should be incorporated soon.

    p.s. I'm not a mathematician, number cruncher or statistician so feel free to do your own analyses with Uncle Gaybo's numbers.


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  • #2
    CiniO
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    mathepac wrote: »
    • 67% of all collisions occurred between the hours of 07:00 and 19:00 (high traffic volumes admittedly but presumably less drunken or speeding pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, etc.)
    • 85% between the hours of 07:00 and 23:00 and
    • a miserly 15% between 23:00 and 07:00 which is a big surprise.

    I cant really see why are you surprised.
    Traffic in Ireland between 23:00 and 7:00 is very little.
    I'm surprised the other way - that it's so many as 15%.
    Sometimes while driving in the middle of the night, it happened to me, that I didn't meet any car for 100km. How are the accidents supposed to happen then, if there's no-one driving.

    Beside - I could bet, that at 7:00 for couple hours after, there's more drunken drivers then during the night.
    Not many people decide to drive drunk.
    But almost everyone decides to drive in the morning after drinking.
    And even that legal alcohol limit in Ireland is the highest in Europe, it's still easy enough to be over the limit in the morning, considering how much Irish people can drink.


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