{"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 &#8230;. and Road Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running this website &#8211; with much more than crime, there is constant work in staying up to date. Take postcodes for example &#8211; every 3 months, there are new postcodes, retired postcodes and postcodes that seemingly come back to life. <a href=\"https:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/postcode_changes.zip\">Here they are<\/a> if you are interested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/Accidents\/\">We&#8217;ve also just updated Road Accidents for Calendar 2022<\/a> using the official Department for Transport data. It&#8217;s a bit depressing that road accidents have stopped falling over the last few years &#8211; Covid interim excepted. I can remember nearly 10 years ago writing in a paper that automated braking &#8211; if not driverless cars &#8211; would dramatically reduce road accidents. Sadly, that hasn&#8217;t happened. But I still think &#8211; and pray &#8211; that it will.\u00a0 Our data goes back to 2009 and it&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/pcd_accident_reports\/\">UKCrashStats postcode accident reports<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running this website &#8211; with much more than crime, there is constant work in staying up to date. Take postcodes for example &#8211; every 3 months, there are new postcodes, retired postcodes and postcodes that seemingly come back to life. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/29\/postcodes-updated-and-road-accidents\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}