Police and Crime Commissioner North Yorkshire Making North Yorkshire's Roads Safer Overview & Impact – 2017 Making North Yorkshire's Roads Safer Overview & Impact – 2017 (This report covers the period 1st January 2017 – 31st December 2017) Contents Foreword 4 Key facts 2017 5 Overview 6 Impact 7 Safety camera van sites 12 Finances 15 District summary 16 Since April 2015 18 Appendix 21 Tables Table 1: Number of people completing driver educational courses following referral by North Yorkshire Police in 2017 Table 2: Deaths and serious injuries in speed-related accidents 2010-2017 Table 3: The five worst roads in North Yorkshire for collisions July 2014 – July 2017 Table 4: Top 10 most visited sites during 2017 Table 5: Top 10 sites by most violations during 2017 Table 6: Finances Figures Figure 1: Number of people completing speed awareness courses following referral by North Yorkshire Police in 2017 Figure 2: Number of people completing other driver educational courses following referral by North Yorkshire Police in 20717 Figure 3: Number of people killed or seriously injured on North Yorkshire's roads by year Figure 4: Deaths and serious injuries in speed-related accidents 2010 – 2017* Figure 5: Map of B6479 Figure 6: Average violations per hour in Shipton by Beningbrough in 2017 Figure 7: Map of Shipton by Beningbrough Figure: 8: Safety Camera sites by category in 2017 Figure: 9: Number of safety camera van sites by district 2017 Figure 10: Number of violations recorded by safety cameras vans per district in 2017 Appendices Appendix 1: All sites visited by safety cameras in 2017 Appendix 2: Newcastle University Report Foreword speed related incidents in North on North Yorkshire's roads. The Yorkshire in 2017 was the lowest partnership approach via 95 Alive since 2010. Not all of that is down will also continue, and I'd like to to safety camera vans, but we do thank partners for their joint know they are life-savers, literally. endeavours in making North In 2017 six new, more agile vehicles Yorkshire's roads as safe as possible. were introduced by the police, taking the total number of safety cameras in North Yorkshire to 12. Julia Mulligan I am committed to improving Police and Crime Commissioner road safety in North Yorkshire, Due to their smaller size, the new for North Yorkshire not least because time and vans are more suited to hard-to- again, the public tell me it is of reach locations, especially rural communities. Using state-of-the art real concern. camera equipment, the vans can And they are right. Despite not only detect speeding drivers, considerable progress made over but can also identify anti-social recent years, North Yorkshire's driving such as seat belt offences 6,000 miles of roads are still among and drivers using mobile phones the most dangerous in the country. behind the wheel. Despite 504 deaths and serious All safety camera vans are also injuries in 2015 reducing to 464 in equipped with Automatic Number 2017, 76 people lost their lives Chief Constable, Lisa Winward, Plate Recognition (ANPR) since my first report was published said, technology, which assists with the in 2016. prevention and detection of cross Improving road safety therefore will border crime by deterring and Road safety remains one of the key remain a priority for both myself disrupting travelling criminals. strategic priorities for North and the police. I also understand Notwithstanding the above, I know Yorkshire Police. The use of a however that this comes with a some people remain suspicious of flexible and versatile safety camera requirement for openness and the safety camera vans and the fleet is one of the options we transparency, which is the purpose police's motive in using them due to utilise in order to continually of this report. the money they generate. To improve the safety of our road Whilst we cover one year, there address those myths head on, this network for all road users. I, along have been changes to North report explains how safety cameras with the majority of residents in Yorkshire Police's approach over the were used in 2017, the numbers of North Yorkshire, believe that road last decade; they have increased the violations reported and the finances safety must remain a key priority, number and variety of safety associated with the vans. The our families and friends should feel cameras, as well as introduced information and data included in safe on our roads, therefore there neighbourhood-led schemes like the report shows that more was is no doubt that the continued use Community Speed Watch. spent on running the vans than was of mobile safety cameras, along with other policing teams and The results are encouraging as recouped, but given their crucial partners, play a vital role in keeping independent research by academics role, this is a good investment. our roads safe for all. at Newcastle University shows an Road safety will continue to be estimated 20% reduction in prioritised in the years ahead. I will casualties owing specifically to the also continue to engage with local presence of mobile safety camera people to understand their views vans. To put that into some context, and if they feel there is the right Lisa Winward the number of people killed in balance of enforcement capability Chief Constable 4 Mobile safety cameras in North Yorkshire – key facts 2017 Number: Six vans at start of 2017, increased gradually throughout the year to 6 twelve by December 2017, plus one motorcycle. Purpose: To contribute to improving road safety, casualty reduction and anti- social road use by monitoring traffic for speed offences, using a mobile phone whilst driving, failing to wear a seatbelt, dangerous driving plus many other offences. £ Running cost: £2,205,525 Use: Monitored 448 different sites over more than 13,885 hours. Impact: Processed 80,582 road safety violations – the equivalent of 5.8 for every hour they were in operation. Education: Of those violations, 43,053 led to motorists attending a speed awareness course. £ Costs Recovered: £1,941,862 District with the highest number of violations: Hambleton, with 17,706. District with the fewest violations: Scarborough, with 3,689. Site with the most violations: A64 Westbound Whitwell Hill, with 4686. Site visited most frequently: A19 Shipton in Beningbrough, with 178 visits during the year. District with the most violations per site: Hambleton with an average 243 violations per site. 5 Overview The new vehicles introduced in seat belt, these are three of the logger in that area) and also on 2017 are smaller and allow greater four offences known as the 'fatal routes known to be used by opportunity to deploy in some of four'. These offences, plus drink motorcyclists, who remain one of the more rural communities in our driving, are the 4 main causation our most vulnerable road users. In County; this has led to a significant factors of killed and serious injured 2017 we introduced sites at increase in the number of sites collisions. locations where intelligence which now allows increased The vehicles also address concerns suggests other high levels of anti- visibility in those areas. of many communities regarding social road use takes place, such as In addition to the increase in the anti-social road use by vehicles in using a mobile phone whilst fleet, four additional locations local villages and towns. driving, these are classed as 'distraction' sites. were identified for the vehicles to The vans were deployed seven deploy from. Originally all vehicles days a week during 2017 and spent were deployed from a single a total of 13,885 hours monitoring location in York, however 2017 saw traffic, capturing 80,582 speeding 95Alive vehicles deploying from Harrogate, violations in that time. In addition Formed in 2004, the 95Alive Road Skipton, Malton and Thirsk. This a large number of mobile phone, Safety Partnership work together reduces travel time from station to seat belt and other offences were to reduce the number of people location thus providing additional also captured. The vans and killed or injured on the roads in time at each site and increased motorcycle are deployed by Police York and North Yorkshire. visibility in order to influence Staff as opposed to Police Officers, traffic. therefore ensuring our use of the The partnership includes The safety camera fleet, which are vehicles does not impact on emergency services, local fully liveried with high visibility frontline policing or the number of authorities and other agencies, and markings, are also equipped with warranted officers available. their initial objective was to exceed the target set the Government for automatic number plate Most drivers caught speeding are the lives that the county should recognition cameras (ANPR), these offered the opportunity to attend a save on its road. Their aim was to cameras capture vehicle speed awareness course, repeat save an additional 95 lives, movements and gather intelligence offenders and those driving at however when the campaign on vehicles travelling across the higher speeds will receive the offer officially ended in March 2011, 126 County. The use of ANPR cameras of a fixed penalty fine and penalty lives had been saved by the on the safety camera vans further point on their driving licence, or a partnership. supports the investment in our Court hearing which may result in a fixed site ANPR infrastructure disqualification. Since then, the partnership has within North Yorkshire and the city continued to work together, with Cost recovery totaling £1,941,862 of York, bolstering our the continued aim of reducing was received by North Yorkshire commitment to making our collisions and casualties even Police resulting from motorists communities safe from travelling further.