Steeton Hall Gateway

South Milford & Lumby

North Yorkshire
 
 
ACCIDENTS ON LOW STREET/MILFORD ROAD, SOUTH MILFORD

Prior to speed bumps (Average speed 30+ mph)

Date

Location and details

Injuries

Accidents per year

4/4/97

Common Lane/Low Street

1 slight

2

26/8/97

Sand Lane/Low Street

1 slight

28/6/98

Sand Lane/Low Street (overtaking)

1 slight

1

30/8/99

BP Garage on Low Street (first entry after roundabout)

1 serious

1

15/3/00

Low Street near Beech Drive (overtaking)

1 slight

2

7/8/00

Bad road Low Street (just SM side of r'bridge)

1 slight

*3/3/01

ICY road Low Street (by the Swan) skidding DARK

1 slight

1

*17/5/02

Milford Road (Milford side of r'bridge) Veh hit parked cars

1 serious

2

*18/8/02

Low Street by Garage. Vehicle lost control. DARK

1 serious

*5/8/03

Sand Lane/Low Street. M'bike hit by car coming out of Sand Lane

1 fatal
1 slight

1

TOTAL for the 7 years

11

10

After speed bumps (Average speed 25+ mph)

Date

Location and details

Injuries

Accidents per year

*31/5/04

Low Street Bus stop by (Bramble Cottage)

2 OAPs slight

4

*29/7/04

BP Garage on Low Street (overtaking)

1 slight

*31/7/04

Low Street Sherburn side of railway bridge. M'bike passenger thrown from bike due to speed bumps

1 slight

*5/11/04

Low Street near Beech Drive. Hits n/side kerb & looses control

1 slight

*21/5/05

Low Street outside No 48. Veh hits parked cars DARK &WET

1 serious 1 child slight

2

*14/9/05

Low Street 25 m S of Beech Drive. Car drove over foot of ped

1 slight

*27/8/06

Low Street/High Street. Veh overtaking parked cars collides with oncoming m'bike in centre of road

1 slight

1

TOTAL for the 3 years

9

7

Brief summary taken from detailed NYCC Highways data up to end November 06
*Denotes information supplied by NYCC directly to The Village People.
We have no information on accidents where there were no injuries

Prior to speed bumps 7 years (April 97 to April 04) 10 accidents
11 injuries = 7 slight, 3 serious and 1 fatality

After speed bumps 3 years(May 04 to April 07) 7 accidents
9injuries = 8 slight and 1 serious

The accident ratio prior to speed bumps was 1 or 2 per year, since the speed bumps there were 4 accidents in the first year, 2 in the second, and 1 in the third , ie 4 accidents (4 injuries) in the 3 years prior to speed bumps and 7 accidents (9 injuries) in the 3 years since.

+Black spot
Sand Lane/Low Street/BP Garage 35% of the total accidents occurred here. 60% of the serious accidents.


4 July 2007
Safety & Security Group
The Village People