{"id":2738,"date":"2024-02-29T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2024-02-29T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:12:36","slug":"postcodes-updated-and-road-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/29\/postcodes-updated-and-road-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcodes updated …. and Road Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Running this website – with much more than crime, there is constant work in staying up to date. Take postcodes for example – every 3 months, there are new postcodes, retired postcodes and postcodes that seemingly come back to life. Here they are<\/a> if you are interested.<\/p>\n

We’ve also just updated Road Accidents for Calendar 2022<\/a> using the official Department for Transport data. It’s a bit depressing that road accidents have stopped falling over the last few years – Covid interim excepted. I can remember nearly 10 years ago writing in a paper that automated braking – if not driverless cars – would dramatically reduce road accidents. Sadly, that hasn’t happened. But I still think – and pray – that it will.\u00a0 Our data goes back to 2009 and it’s actually much more accurate than the crime data. You get precise locations and dates for a start. And we have layered on heatmaps and all the geographical shapes like constituencies and wards, postcode districts, etc. . If you want to buy see your road accident risk in your area, why not take a look at one of our UKCrashStats postcode accident reports<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Running this website – with much more than crime, there is constant work in staying up to date. Take postcodes for example – every 3 months, there are new postcodes, retired postcodes and postcodes that seemingly come back to life. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t