Saving Lives, Preventing Injury. the Use of Safety Camera Vans in North

Police and Crime Commissioner North Yorkshire Saving lives, preventing injury The use of safety camera vans in North Yorkshire 2014/15 Saving lives, preventing injury The use of safety camera vans in North Yorkshire 2014/15 (This report covers the period 1 April 2014 to 30 March 2015. All 2015 statistics are provisional) Contents Foreword 3 Key facts 2014/15 3 Overview 4 Impact 5 Safety camera van sites 8 Finances 11 District summary 13 Since April 2015 15 Appendix 17 Tables Table 1: Number of people completing speed awareness courses by month and year 2012/13-2014/15 Table 2: Deaths and serious injuries in speed-related accidents 2006/07-2014/15 Table 3: The five worst roads in North Yorkshire for collisions in 2014/15, ranked according to the Department of Transport's points ranking system Table 4: Top 10 most visited sites during 2014/15 Table 5: Top 10 sites by most violations during 2014/15 Table 6: All sites visited by safety camera vans during 2014/15 Figures Figure 1: Number of people completing speed awareness courses by month 2012/13 – 2014/15 Figure 2: Number of people killed or seriously injured on North Yorkshire's roads by year Figure 3: Deaths and serious injuries in speed-related accidents in North Yorkshire 2006/07 – 2014/15 Figure 4: All deaths and serious injuries on the A61 2010/11 - 2014/15 Figure 5: All deaths and serious injuries on the A64 2010/2011 - 2014/15 Figure 6: Safety camera van sites by category 2014/15 Figure 7: Number of visits to safety camera van sites by category 2014/15 Figure: 8 Number of safety camera van sites by district 2014/15 Figure: 9 Number of violations recorded by safety camera vans per district 2014/15 Foreword come together in 95 Alive – a partnership whose role is to reduce Safety camera vans in North the number of people killed or Yorkshire – key facts 2014/15 seriously injured on the county's Number: Three (one was out of roads through education and action for three months after being training, road improvements and in a collision). enforcement of road traffic laws. Purpose: To reduce speed-related In the past, road improvements collisions by monitoring all vehicles When it comes to crime, North and traffic management schemes for offences such as speeding, no Yorkshire is the safest place to have played a large part in seatbelt, crossing white lines, using live in England. promoting road safety. Be it better mobile phones and dangerous Our police do a good job and, signage, non-slip surfaces or new driving. road layouts – where they have generally speaking, most of us feel Running cost: £886,000 safe from crime as we go about our been possible,these engineering Use: Monitored 130 different sites daily lives. solutions have all largely been done and account for much of the over more than 3,823 hours. However, the picture is less rosy steep fall we have seen in casualty Impact: Processed 40,377 road when it comes to road safety. numbers. safety violations – the equivalent of The number of people killed or However, if we are to reduce 11 for every hour they were in seriously injured on the county's deaths and injuries still further, we operation. Of those violations, roads each year has gone down have to tackle the altogether 34,419 led to motorists attending a significantly over the past 25 thornier issue of driver behaviour speed awareness course. years– from more than 1,600 in and education – in particular, *Money generated: £1,049,000 – 1990/91 to under 600 in 2014/15. speeding. enough to run the vans with a However, North Yorkshire still has It was with this in mind that North surplus of £163,000 strictly ring- one of the highest accident rates in Yorkshire police began piloting fenced for road safety initiatives. the country. Last year, 44 people safety camera vans in July 2011 – District with the highest number of died on our roads. There is proven deploying a single vehicle at key violations: Hambleton, with 8,666. evidence that nine of those deaths accident sites. I agreed to expand were the result of speeding. the fleet to three from April 2013 District with the fewest violations: However, speed was a probable and was sufficiently convinced by Craven, with 3,472. factor in many more of the deaths their benefits to double their Site with the most violations: A19 and serious injuries that took number to six from April 2015. southbound at Kilvington near place. This report explains how safety Thirsk. But, while speeding is dangerous, it camera vans were used in North Site visited most frequently: A59 can harm our communities in other Yorkshire in 2014/15 and what Blubberhouses with 145 visits ways too – with many people contribution they made to during the year. telling me their neighbourhoods enforcing the laws of the road and District with the most violations are blighted by the noise and reducing speed-related death and per site: York with an average 1,035 intrusion of speeding traffic. serious injury. In common with violations per site. (Mainly due to eight in ten residents, I believe that Little wonder, therefore, that sites located on the A64) residents say road safety is such a road safety is a major concern for big issue and want more to be the county and that increased done. enforcement will have a positive * This figure includes income arising from violations detected by all speed cameras, including the safety effect. For that reason, I believe However, improving road safety is camera vans, other fixed site cameras and the A1 safety camera vans play a vital role cameras. Due to the nature of the income and the not an easy job. In North Yorkshire way it is reported to us, it is not possible to split the in keeping our roads safer. income between these different sources. It also a range of agencies including local includes income from the Highways Agency (£92,000) authorities, the fire service, the in relation to costs incurred as a result of processing Julia Mulligan violations detected from the average speed cameras Highways Agency and the police on the A1. 3 Overview North Yorkshire introduced its first The vans carried out visits at 130 safety camera van in July 2011 and sites across the county. The 95 Alive expanded its fleet to three in April monitoring points included places 2013. It operated three safety where there had been a speed- 95 Alive road safety partnership camera vans throughout 2014/15 related collision in which someone brings together local authorities, (except for a three-month period had been killed or seriously injured emergency services and other when one was damaged in a in the past. They also included sites agencies that work throughout collision) and their primary on routes used by high numbers of North Yorkshire to reduce the purpose was to reduce speed- motorcycles, known accident sites number of people killed or injured related collisions by enforcing a and sites where the speed of on the roads. range of safety-related offences in vehicles was a concern for local It was formed in 2004 and its initial a highly visible way. residents. objective was to exceed by 95 the They also addressed the concerns The vans were not the only means target set by the Government for many communities had about anti- of enforcing speeding and other the number of lives that the county social road behaviour by enforcing road safety laws. Instead they were should save on its roads. When the traffic laws in local villages and part of an infrastructure that also campaign officially ended on 31 towns. included the force's safer March 2011, it had saved 126 lives neighbourhood teams' police and the partnership continued Most drivers caught speeding were working together to reduce offered the option of attending a community support officers and special constables using laser and casualties and collisions even speed awareness course costing further. £85. However, repeat offenders or radar devices. Roads policing teams those driving at speeds were also used and average speed As well as promoting better considerably higher than the legal cameras were in place between driving, the partnership supports, limit received a fixed penalty fine, Barton and Leeming on the A1. for example, City of York Council to penalty points on their licence or During the year, North Yorkshire run Bikeability cyclist training to even disqualification if convicted at Police worked closely with children in Years 5 and 6. It also court. Highways England on road safety invests in the WalkWise pre-school initiatives. They were also active childrens' road safety programme The vans were deployed seven members of the 95 Alive strategic in Harrogate, Selby and days a week and during 2014/15 road safety partnership and Scarborough and helps to fund a they spent a total of 3,823 hours continually worked to educate number of other programmes to monitoring traffic, recording motorists, cyclists and pedestrians help young drivers, older drivers, 40,377 violations. The vans were about road safety. motorcyclists and cyclists to stay operatedby police staff rather than safe on our roads. officers mainly because speeding offences do not need to be recorded by warranted officers. As a result, deployment of the vans did not affect frontline policing or the number of warranted officers available on the ground. ! Police and Crime During the year, the vans Commissioner Julia generated £1,049,000 for North Mulligan (centre) helps Yorkshire Police through money launch WalkWise, an from speed awareness courses initiative to cut deaths attended by motorists caught and serious injuries speeding or committing other among young children.

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