Hi y'all
Crook as a dog today, which keeps me away from the office. However, it doesn't keep me away from the iPad.
Just want to share some interesting facts I dredged up a couple of weeks back from our crash analyst.
I wanted to find out the pattern of crashes involving motorcyclists in Christchurch. I was looking for a pattern, or at least a trend. I'm looking for a way to deploy our resources to try to reduce the crashes. I know enforcement isn't the only answer, but it's one of the answers, and given that we have very limited resources, it made sense to me to target the little resource we have where and when we'll have the best chance of having an effect.
Crashes happen in Chur Chur to a pattern, predictably so. Monday to Friday they tend to happen in the morning peak and afternoon peak, related to volumes of traffic, and tend to be crossing and turning crashes. Failing to give way, failing to see the oncoming bike, those sorts of things.
Saturday and Sunday, however, the proportion changes, heavily toward loss of control crashes on the Akaroa highway. A la the Akaroa GP.
So, no surprises there then. Loss of control on the open road, crossing and turning in peak traffic on the city streets. Yawn.
Of course, there's always the knob who loses control and hits a pole on city streets, and the odd crash on the highways where someone SMIDSYs a biker.
So, the Chur Chur motorcycle Popos will be targeting crap driving on the city streets during the peaks, and using a laser to keep speeds down on the Akaroa road at the weekends.
Any comments on that?
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