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Area 6 Annual Safety Reports

The Area 6 Annual Safety Reports are prepared to assist us with the monitoring of our area of the network, namely:

A11 between M11 and A47
A12(S) between M25 Junction 28 and Ipswich
A12(N) between Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft
A14 between the Girton Road Overbridge, Cambridge and Felixstowe
A47 between Peterborough and Great Yarmouth
A120(W) between M11 and Marks Tey (A12(S))
A120(E) Colchester to Harwich

These Reports provide us with a rolling three-year accident analysis for each route, broken down into personal injury accidents (PIAs), slight, serious and fatal. We do not record damage only accidents. These accidents and PIAs are then broken down into "clusters". A cluster is defined as a length of a route up to approximately 100 metres in length within which at least three or four personal injury accidents have occurred in the three-year period.

The Annual Safety Reports also provide us with data showing the effectiveness of improvement work already carried out. Previous cluster sites are identified in Appendix D that show where accident numbers have improved and are ‘Kept Under Review’ or where further investigation is required.

We are also able to compare each route's statistics with the national averages and determine a route's progress towards Government's accident reduction targets.

Road user accident trends are also identified, such as drink/drug driving, young drivers or motorcycles. These will then support further campaigns, publicity or enforcement that may be necessary.

The statistical accident data referred to within the Annual Safety Reports was not derived from National validated accident statistics but was sourced from unvalidated accident data received from local authorities. As this data has not yet been validated by the Department for Transport, it cannot be assumed to be complete. The requirement for up to date information for the production of these reports was a consideration in the decision to use this data as it was sourced from local authorities and is sufficiently robust to be used in this context.

The Annual Safety Reports for the A11; A12 North; A12 South; A120 East; A120 West; A14; and A47 are available below.

You may find references in the reports to Appendices A, B, F and G. These are not available on this website and are not available to the general public. This is because they contain specific accident related data, which could be used to identify individuals involved.

From the 1 September 2008, Area 6 has included the M11 between J7 – J9. An accident report for the route is also available below.