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Facts and figures
Land Transport New Zealand has prepared a road safety issues report for Auckland
City. It is based on crash data and trends for the 2003 – 2007 period. The
intent of the report is to highlight the key road safety issues and be a
resource to identify possible ways to reduce the number of road deaths and
injuries.
The issues chosen for the report are drawn from either the most common crash
types, those that appear over-represented when Auckland City is compared to
similar local bodies or those with high social cost (high numbers of fatal and
serious crashes mainly).
Major road safety issues
|
| Auckland City |
| Intersections |
| Vulnerable road users |
| Crashes at bends |
| Night time crashes |
| Nationally |
| Speed |
| Alcohol |
| Failure to give way |
| Restraints |
2007 road trauma
|
| Casualties |
Auckland City |
| Deaths |
4 |
| Serious casualties |
116 |
| Minor casualties |
960 |
| |
|
| Crashes |
Auckland City |
| Fatal crashes |
4 |
| Serious injury crashes |
104 |
| Minor injury crashes |
763 |
| Non-injury crashes |
3019 |
Local road
fatal crashes in the city have been relatively steady over the last eight years
(except in 2003). In 2007, there was a large drop in the number of fatal
crashes.
Serious and
minor crashes in 2007 were also lower than reported in recent years.
One notable
area of improvement is the reduction of nighttime alcohol related crashes in the
city, from 110 injury crashes reported in 2006 down to 66 in 2007. The
percentage of all alcohol related injury crashes also reduced from a high of 15
percent in 2006 to 11 percent in 2007.
Local road crashes
|
| Crash type or
contributory cause 2003 to 2007 |
Percentage fatal and
serious crashes of this type or contributory cause |
Percentage all injury
crashes of the type of contributory cause |
| Alcohol |
21 |
13 |
| Too fast |
16 |
10 |
| At bends |
17 |
11 |
| At intersections |
50 |
57 |
Vulnerable road users
(1-3 as below) |
50 |
34 |
| 1, pedestrian |
27 |
17 |
| 2, cyclists |
10 |
10 |
| 3, motorcyclists |
13 |
7 |
| Roadside hazard struck |
28 |
25 |
| Road factors |
7 |
3 |
| Night time |
42 |
32 |
Further
information about 2003 – 2007 injury and non-injury crashes on local roads in
Auckland City:
- worst
month May, best January
- worst day
Friday, best Sunday
- 23
percent on wet roads
- 32
percent at night
- 57
percent at intersections
- 58
percent of at fault drivers in injury crashes held a full New Zealand
drivers licence
- $186
million social cost of crashes in 2007.
For more information, see the Land
Transport NZ website or the Ministry
of Transport website.
