This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Accident statistics for the Aquarium Roundabout'.


 
 
Brighton & Hove City Council
Information Rights Team 
Room 233 
Hove Town Hall 
Norton Road 
Hove 
BN3 3BQ
 
 
 
 
Adrian Hart
FOI Reference: 11412385
Direct Dial: 01273 295959
Email: xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Date: 2 September 2022
 
 
 
Dear Adrian Hart
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
Thank you for your request for information to Brighton & Hove City Council (‘the 
council’) that was received on 1 August 2022. We would like to apologise for the 
delay. We have now processed your request and our response is below.
 
Your request:
 
Please can you send me any evidence the council holds to suggest the 
Aquarium Roundabout is one of the UKs (or even Brighton's) most 
dangerous roundabouts or in fact any more dangerous to road users and 
pedestrians than numerous traffic light junctions? 

(I refer to remarks made by Cllr Davis at the environment, transport and 
sustainability committee meeting on Tuesday 21 June 2022 as reported in 
the Argus by Sarah Booker-Lewis on June 27th)
 
Our response:
 
In processing your request we liaised with colleagues within our Transport 
department, as they would hold the information in relation to your request were 
this information to be held by the council. 
 
We can confirm that the information requested is partially held by the council. 
The information which the council holds is detailed below (with two 
supplementary files attached). 
 
Please can you send me any evidence the council holds to suggest the 
Aquarium Roundabout is one of the UKs (or even Brighton's) most 
dangerous roundabouts or in fact any more dangerous to road users and 
pedestrians than numerous traffic light junctions? 

  

(I refer to remarks made by Cllr Davis at the environment, transport and 
sustainability committee meeting on Tuesday 21 June 2022 as reported in 
the Argus by Sarah Booker-Lewis on June 27th)
 
Response: The council holds the attached data analysis (FOI 11412385 
Collision Clusters Report.pdf) for the Palace Pier/Aquarium roundabout junction 
which was produced earlier this year.  It is based on an assessment of locations 
where 4 or more collisions resulting in personal injuries occurred, within a 
radius of 25 metres, during a recent three-year period.  It shows that out of 81 
sites, the junction had the highest number of collisions in the city during that 
time.  
The junction also had the highest number of collisions in the city when a similar 
analysis of past data was undertaken to inform the development of the Valley 
Gardens Phase 3 project
 in 2018, as shown in the attached file (FOI 11412385 
Collision Cluster Table.pdf).
Please note when referring to the attached files, the abbreviations should be 
read as follows: Fa = Fatal; Se = Serious; SI = Slight; KSI = killed or seriously 
injured.
Under section 21 (1) (Information accessible to the applicant by other means) of 
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act), we are not required to provide 
information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible by 
other means and even if there is a charge or fee to obtain this information. 
The council does not hold any information about the junction which compares it 
to others in the UK.  References that have been made to the danger of the 
junction in a national context are based on articles that were published in the 
national and local media in 2019.  These included a journalist's independent 
analysis of publicly available figures from the government's Department for 
Transport, which is mentioned in the Argus article that you have referred to in 
your request.  Government data on road accidents and safety statistics can be 
found on a number of their webpages including – 
https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/custom-downloads 
 
Please quote the reference number 11412385 in any future communications.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to 
ask for an Internal Review. Internal Review requests should be submitted within 
40 working days of the date of receipt of this response and should be 
addressed to:
 
xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
 
or by post to the address at the top of this letter.
If you are still dissatisfied with the Council’s response after the Internal Review 
you have a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
  

The Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Website: www.ico.org.uk  
 
We will now close your request as of this date.
Yours sincerely
 
Information Rights Team