"Safety Town" has high accident rate; Sgt. Nicholas Angle unavailable for comment

Blind_Io · December 17th, 2007, 1:51 PM

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...ccident-league

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An area which was one of the first to model itself as a "safety town" is the most dangerous in the country for accidents, it was revealed.

Slough in Berkshire, which is ringed by traffic lights and speed cameras, topped a most-accident table compiled by Endsleigh Insurance Services.

The Berkshire town had an accident rate 35.7% above the national average in 2007, Endsleigh said.

Slough's safety promotions go back to the 1960s when it introduced lights timed to be on green so long as drivers stuck to the speed limit. In recent years, the number of lights encircling the town and its industrial estate have grown.

After Slough, Ilford in east London had the most accidents (35.5% above the national average), with Birmingham third (32.9% above).

The most accident-free town or city was Belfast (47.0% below the national average), with Swansea (29.9% below) in second place and Aberdeen (20.6% below) third.

Hull was the place with the most vehicle thefts in 2007, being 143.9% above the national average. Second was Nottingham (82.9% above the national average), with Leeds third (77.8% above).

Endsleigh said that overall, it had seen a 13% fall in motor theft claims across the UK in the last three years.

Swindon had 42.9% fewer cases of theft than the national average, with Norwich (42.3% below the average) and Dundee (38.9% below) also comparatively crime-free areas.

Slough was 35.7% above the national accident average, with Ilford in east London second (35.5% above) and Birmingham third (32.9% above).

tigger · December 17th, 2007, 5:38 PM

Well that's just funny images/smilies/lol.gif

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anti-net · December 17th, 2007, 7:20 PM

Its for the Greater Good!!

BlaRo · December 17th, 2007, 7:21 PM

Wait...that Slough?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/TheOfficeuk1.jpg

Donington · December 17th, 2007, 7:52 PM

Yes, that Slough. It's so boring, people are probably causing deliberate accidents to make their worthless day more interesting.

BlaRo · December 17th, 2007, 11:40 PM

Wow, David Brent really wasn't kidding, huh? images/smilies/unsure.gif

Ottobon · December 18th, 2007, 5:06 AM

would be nice if politicians would actually note this and stop being such wankers

Jacobfox · December 18th, 2007, 5:18 AM

find it somehow ironic that belfast is the safest city

Gman333-X-ferrari · December 18th, 2007, 5:27 AM

Arbadeen? That's where HondaF1 lives now... images/smilies/lol.gif

So he's in the third safest town.

narin · December 18th, 2007, 5:32 AM

oooohhhh the irony! goes to show how you can over do things

Ottobon · December 18th, 2007, 7:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Jacobfox

find it somehow ironic that belfast is the safest city

stateside people have trouble believing that Rhode Island is the safest (fatality wise) place to drive, but it is.

Sometimes i wonder if a combination of hardcore understanding of potential for danger, mixed with a hint of actual reckless endangerment is the safest way to be. I know that personally whenever i drive the speed limit i go into a coma, so i don't.

Goose+ · December 18th, 2007, 1:12 PM

Living fairly close to Slough I can tell you first hand that I'm glad that I don't live there. It's really just a town that sprung up to support London.

Oh, did anyone else know that Slough has more registered companies than the whole of Wales?

Reading or Maidenhead are much better towns in Berkshire.

Blind_Io · December 18th, 2007, 3:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Ottobon

stateside people have trouble believing that Rhode Island is the safest (fatality wise) place to drive, but it is.

Sometimes i wonder if a combination of hardcore understanding of potential for danger, mixed with a hint of actual reckless endangerment is the safest way to be. I know that personally whenever i drive the speed limit i go into a coma, so i don't.

One of the reasons I think Rhode Island is the safest is that if you start to understeer or skid in RI, by the the time you actually crash you are in another state.

teeb · December 18th, 2007, 5:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Gman333-X-ferrari

Arbadeen? That's where HondaF1 lives now... images/smilies/lol.gif

So he's in the third safest town.

It was the third safest town before he got there... images/smilies/tongue.gif

Phinn · December 19th, 2007, 4:12 PM

"Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now"
- John Betjeman

http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html

That was in 1937. It hasn't got much better.

cdbob · December 22nd, 2007, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by teeb

It was the third safest town before he got there... images/smilies/tongue.gif

Too True

It does prove a point, the more you drink and less safety features, the less accidents, I mean if I was not driving my Volvo I would probably get my shit together.

Speedtouch · January 1st, 2008, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by anti-net

Its for the Greater Good!!

Just what I was thinking. Mine's a Cranberry Juice.

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