FOI 4346-25 Various Info on RTCs Jan 24 to Feb 25

Request to Northamptonshire Police

1. Please provide the total number of recorded road traffic accidents from January 2024 to February 2025. Additionally, identify which month had the highest number of incidents.

2. Break down these accidents by severity, categorising them into fatal, serious, and slight injuries.

3. Provide a dataset detailing the number of road traffic accidents involving pedestrians, cyclists, scooters, and motorcyclists during this period.

4. What were the leading causes of road traffic accidents in the given timeframe? Please include a statistical breakdown by category, such as speeding, drink-driving, reckless driving, poor weather conditions, vehicle defects, and driver distraction (e.g., mobile phone use).

5. How many of these accidents involved drivers aged under 25 years old or over 70 years old? If available, please indicate any trends or patterns related to these age groups.

6. Identify the most hazardous roads and junctions based on accident frequency during this period, along with the total number of incidents recorded at each location.

Response

Unfortunately, Northamptonshire Police are unable to provide you with the information requested because it is not held in an easily retrievable format. Compliance with your request would require our analysts to manually review a minimum of 2 950 records which would exceed the appropriate cost limit of £450.

Accordingly, please accept this Refusal Notice under s12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act).

We always strive to provide the highest level of service that we can with the finite resources at our disposal. Under our Duty to offer advice and assistance to help you revise your request as outlined in s16 of The Act, we may be able to provide answers to questions 1 & 2. If this would be useful, please submit a new request.