Christchurch crash facts

[rastuscat]

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?

[HenryDorsetCase]

catch me if you can copper!!!!

[Scuba_Steve]

Crook as a dog today, which keeps me away from the office. However, it doesn't keep me away from the iPad.
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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?

Yea.
1stly damm boy an iPad!, you must be good at achieving those quotas "KPI's" ay, this is well up from the usual donuts & toasters
2ndly speed scams are dangerous, & well, are scams! so you shouldn't be running them anyways. Leave the scamming to the Nigerians & Russians they're better at it.
3rdly you forgot to sign off with "Donuts"

Vodka!

[Berries]

Any comments on that?

Only that I am very surprised that you haven't been targeting to risk for years like they have down south.

[oneofsix]

City; police the small transgressions as indicators the operator is not paying attention/not taking vehicle control seriously enough. Drinking coffee is not more important than indicating or checking your mirrors, the coffee can wait.

Akaroa GP; only use the laser on the black spots. None of this using the laser to rack up tickets on straights were the speed is reasonably safe. Again policing the small transgressions can be a wake up call to the vehicle operator but be prepared to hand out a higher % of warnings.

Remember in both cases the stat is the lower crash rate not a higher ticket rate.



Otherwise I don't care because those roads are still on my to do list.

Note to self: take donuts when/if I ride south of the strait.

[Paul in NZ]

Funnily enough - I think thats actually pretty interesting.

In town motorcyclists are vulnerable to being hit by other traffic (be interesting to break that down more to see how many incidents coincided with filtering at the time). But on the open road its mostly speed / loss of control.

This is surely the sort of stuff the motorcycle safety council should be aware of. Targetted training that address this would be good.

[rastuscat]

Yea.
1stly damm boy an iPad!, you must be good at achieving those quotas "KPI's" ay, this is well up from the usual donuts & toasters
2ndly speed scams are dangerous, & well, are scams! so you shouldn't be running them anyways. Leave the scamming to the Nigerians & Russians they're better at it.
3rdly you forgot to sign off with "Donuts"

Vodka!

1stly, it's my wifes iPad.

2ndly, if it was a speed scam, would I be publicizing it?

3rdly, Donuts.

4thly, by signing off with Vodka you've revealed yourself as a Russian scammer. You and your Nigerian friends should stick to Chardonnay.

[Scuba_Steve]

2ndly, if it was a speed scam, would I be publicizing it?

It's been publicized for a good decade or 2, why stop now?
lots of scams are publicized it helps get "customers"

4thly, by signing off with Vodka you've revealed yourself as a Russian scammer. You and your Nigerian friends should stick to Chardonnay.

дерьмо они знают мой секрет товарищей

I don't like Char donn, ay!


Merlot!

[rastuscat]

дерьмо они знают мой секрет товарищей

Я не твой тайный друг

[rastuscat]

At the risk of repeating myself, if you don't want to get speeding tickets, dont get caught speeding.



(can of worms approaching the opener.........)

[Shadowjack]

Where's my Babel Fish when I need it...

[Asher]

At the risk of repeating myself, if you don't want to get speeding tickets, dont get caught speeding.



(can of worms approaching the opener.........)

[Scuba_Steve]

Я не твой тайный друг

ха-ха думаю, что-то потерялось при переводе

[Scuba_Steve]

At the risk of repeating myself, if you don't want to get speeding tickets, dont get caught speeding.



(can of worms approaching the opener.........)

Yea that works well I hear...

"A forklift based in Invercargill, on the southern tip of New Zealand's southern island, has been booked for speeding at 119km/h on the Kapiti Coast, at the southern end of the northern island.

Police had identified the forklift belonging to Lindsay Carrying Co as the offending vehicle , despite it never having left Invercargill and having a top speed of 19km/h.

Assistant manager Shelley Kempton said she thought it must have been a joke when she opened a letter from police."

[merv]

Speed things is a waste of time I would have thought as presumably most of the Akaroa GP crashes are on the curvy bits at under legal limit anyway.

I'd say target video camera shots sitting on the hill by a known blackspot and watch behaviour - disregard for yellow lines, passing towards oncoming traffic and all that "dangerous" stuff. On that road too many bikers lean hard going into corners hanging over the centre line or crossing it, then get the holy shit feeling when someone comes the other way - they try and swerve out the way and end up going off the edge of the road etc etc. They won't be doing 100 at the time though on those tight curves.

Remember this thread http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...=diavel+akaroa