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Anti-20mph group refuses to back down despite big drop in casualty numbers (nation.cymru)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Figures published by the Welsh Government show casualty reductions as follows for the period January to March 2024, in comparison with January to March 2023:

All severities at all speeds: 811 (2024); 4348 (2023);

20mph. All severities: 300 (2024); 662 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 63 (2024); 144 (2023)

Slightly injured: 237 (2024); 518 (2023)

30mph. All severities: 77 (2024); 1522 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 15 (2024); 343 (2023)

Slightly injured: 62 (2024); 1179 (2023)

40mph. All severities: 74 (2024); 397 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 20 (2024); 98 (2023)

Slightly injured: 54 (2024); 299 (2023)

50mph. All severities: 94 (2024); 273 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 23 (2024); 67 (2023)

Slightly injured: 71(2024); 206 (2023)

60mph. All severities: 214 (2024); 1235 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 71 (2024); 401 (2023)

Slightly injured: 143 (2024); 834 (2023)

70mph. All severities: 52 (2024); 259 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 12 (2024); 73 (2023)

Slightly injured: 40 (2024); 186 (2023)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It’s a huge number of drops across the board. I’d love to understand why that is, because the 20mph limit change only affected 30mph roads. They’re so dramatic that, not to be too sceptical, if I were responsible for collating those figures I’d be triple checking that they’d all been reported correctly. It almost reads like one highway authority has forgotten to submit their data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

In theory the higher speeds are on safer roads?

Like say you just have two roads one 30mph downtown and another 30mph connecting two industrial estates. If only the first one is changed to 20 then you still have both 20mph and 30mph in both tables but the danger has been removed.