80% of roads not covered in crash data analysis, Dept confirms

The Department of Transport has confirmed to Prime Time that crash data related to 80% of the road network in the Republic of Ireland was not included in a centralised analysis it undertook to inform road safety interventions.

Since then, when he has been asked why local authority road engineers were being left"in the dark" in relation to the data, Minister of State Jack Chambers has regularly noted that the Department of Transport’s centralised analysis was instead conducted. However, the Department of Transport has now confirmed to Prime Time that the data which was centrally analysed related only to collisions on regional roads. Such roads account for just 12% of the overall road network.

"The collision analysis involved a high-level analysis to identify clusters and locations of interest," according to the statement.This included"observations such as direction of travel and weather conditions, collision year, severity and type." As detailed earlier this month, until 2020 roads engineering teams in local authorities had access to a detailed interactive map system populated with specific information on individual collisions.

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