Marlborough District Council Roading Assets - Activity Management Plan 2015 - 2018 SECTION 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Alcohol, Drugs 6.8 3.0 2.4 1.9 1.9 26 Too fast for conditions 5.3 2.7 2.3 1.8 1.5 41 High Urban Intersections 6.9 6.8 4.6 2.7 2.6 35 Strategic Rural Intersections 5.4 2.2 1.7 1.2 1.0 39 Priority All Intersections 4.4 2.5 2.2 1.7 1.4 42 Rural loss control, head-on 16.1 8.1 6.8 5.4 5.7 27 Motorcyclists 3.3 0.9 0.5 0.4 0.5 18 Figure 7.2.1: National Comparison: High Priority Factors Fatal and Serious Crashes per 100MVKT Ranking Factor High Medium Concern Concern Mean Marlborough Cyclists 7.7 2.4 1.6 0.3 0.2 41 Medium Pedestrians 1.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.1 38 Strategic Fatal and Serious Crashes per 100MVKT Priority Distracted 4.4 1.4 1.1 0.8 1.0 18 Fatigue 2.6 1.3 1.0 0.7 0.6 34 Older Road Users 41.9 15.2 12.3 9.1 5.8 51 Emerging Restraint Use 3.3 1.7 1.4 1.1 1.0 32 Figure 7.2.2: National Comparison: Medium Priority and Emerging Factors Comment The overall District road safety performance, based on the rate of 6.9 fatal and serious crashes per 100MVK, is below the national mean and ranks Marlborough at 37 of the 73 communities evaluated [1 being worst and 73 being best performed]. The motorcyclist crash rate of 0.5 per 100 MVKT is one half standard deviation above the mean and rates the Marlborough performance as being of “medium concern” and places Marlborough at 18 of 73. This rating has been identified by current local safety management strategies and is discussed below The balance of the individual areas analysed do not qualify as being of ‘concern’ in a national context using the defined criteria. 1.7.3 Local Roads Safety Performance Crash statistics are based on individual Traffic Crash Reports prepared by the NZ Police and passed to the NZ Transport Agency for coding and recording in the Crash Analysis System (CAS). The direct supply of TCR’s by the Police, as previously reported, has now ceased due to new privacy policies introduced across the Public Service. Road and safety managers are required to await entry of the data into CAS to analyse safety performance and produce. Analysis of crash data must have appropriate regard to a number of influencing factors; Crash reporting rates vary by time and region. Crashes are random events involving a range of human, mechanical, road and environmental conditions. There must be regard for these factors when developing conclusions from CAS statistics. Further to the above, statistics based on modest sized populations, numbers etc may produce misleading indications. Evaluation should be based on a (minimum) 5 year recodthe fcshoud be n trends;l or; ou s comparisons should be made with records from similar constitueniesc Despite the recent issue of fuel costs and reduced demand, there is a lonerterg m but modest trend of increasing vehicles numbers and increased distances travelled.Ths reslti us in increased exposure to risk on our roads , 30 September 2014 Page 145 of Section 1