Information Resilience and Transparency
Please ask for: Kelly Leeson
FOI Reference: 5195465
Phone: +443000415985
Email:
xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Date: 15 March 2019
Dear Mr Brudenall
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) 2000, relating to Hawkhurst Traffic. Please see the response provided below
and attached.
Q1 - Regarding point one of your email requesting traffic surveys undertaken by Kent
County Council on A268 High Street, Hawkhurst between 1st February 2012 and 1st
February 2019. I can advise that Kent County Council archives indicate three surveys
within this period. I confirm that all traffic count data held by KCC is available upon
request at a charge of £158 per survey. As there are three previous studies the total
cost would be £474 if you obtained all three sets of data. Should you wish to obtain this
data please email your request to xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx .However, of 1st April
our fees are increasing. Therefore you apply for archived traffic data after this date a
charge of £163 per survey will apply.
Q2 & 3 – Please see the attachment.
Q4 – Please find the attached print-out and plot of personal injury crashes supplied to
us by Kent Police for the period between 1 February 2012 up to 30 September 2018.
Unfortunately we are only able to provide data to this point as we are still waiting for
records from Kent Police and have yet to close out 2018.
For future reference, please note that you can search for the number of personal injury
collisions at any location in Kent at www.crashmap.co.uk. Data on this site goes up to
31 December 2017.
Please be aware that data supplied to us from Kent Police for the period 1st July 2016
to 31 December 2016 (inc.) has not been through the full data cleansing process
compared to data outside of this range. The data has been accepted by the
Department for Transport but the data set may still carry some un-validated or missing
detail.
The information shown on the attached D-print Crash Reports originates from data
collected by the Police when an injury road collision is reported to them. Please note
that this information is susceptible to change whilst the Police carry out further
investigations and should not be taken as an indicator of the cause of a crash.
For your information, the County is served by three Highway Authorities: Kent County
Council (KCC); Highways England and Medway Council. Kent Police collects over 60
pieces of statistical data for each injury crash for the whole county. Crashes are
categorised by severity:
Fatal - a crash resulting in a death
Serious - detention in hospital, includes paralysis, fractures and severe lacerations
Slight - includes whiplash, sprains and minor lacerations
Human error is a factor in 95% of road crashes. Based on the Department for
Transport's (DfT) figures the cost to the community of a fatal crash is around £1.9
million, a serious crash costs in the region of £216,000 and a slight crash costs
£23,000. For more information about crash and casualty figures please visit our website
at www.kent.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/road-safety/crash-and-casualty-data.
KCC Highways, Transportation and Waste welcome feedback from our customers and
we have designed our fault reporting tool so that you can quickly and easily let us know
about any problems on the roads and footways or about any of our equipment such as
streetlights that may not be working. You can do this by visiting
www.kent.gov.uk/highwayfaults. From here you can see all known issues, view any
planned works, report multiple issues, upload photos as well as track any existing
enquiries.
If you are unhappy with this response, and believe KCC has not complied with
legislation, you have 40 working days from the date of this response to ask for a review.
You can do this by following our complaints process; details can be found at this link
https://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/contact-us/complaints-and-feedback#tab-7
on our website. Please quote reference 5195465.
If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you can appeal to the Information
Commissioner, who oversees compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Details of what you need to do, should you wish to pursue this course of action, are
available from the Information Commissioner’s website
http://ico.org.uk/concerns
Yours sincerely
Kelly Leeson
Information Access Officer