Freedom of Information Request 1085/20
Response date: 15th December 2020
I wo
uld appreciate the records of all traffic incidents/accidents on the stretch of CHURCH ROAD, PENTYRCH,
CARDIFF, for the period 2007 - 2019/20 The postcodes are CF15 9QF, CF15 9QG and CF15 9QH.
The long/lat coordinates are : 51.512309, -3.279525 at the Rhydlafar end of Church Road, and 51.528219, -
3.2924
29 at the top (Kings Arms Pub)
RESPONSE
We have consulted with our Intelligence Analysts who have conducted a search on our crime and incident recording
syst
em (Niche RMS).
The latitude & longitude provided have been converted into eastings and northings (please see attached map). The
blue ma rkers relate to these points.
The re
d markers denote a search area that was required in order to encompass all of Church Road. It was not
possibl
e to search between the coordinates provided in the above request.
The data extract was taken from between N310219, E1181835 and N311313, E180054 and extracted all occurrences
that started with ‘TR’ (list of occurrence types provided below) with no date restraints as Niche only goes back to 2007.
This
search retrieved 79 results.
Occurre nce Types:
TR4 RTC – Damage Only
TR5 Hi
ghway Disruption
TR6 Road related offence
TR8 PVI (POLAC)
TR9 RTC – Death/Injury
TR10
Rail/Air/Marine Incident Not Recorded Elsewhere
Abbreviations:
RTC –
Road traffic collision
PVI – Police vehicle incident
POLAC – Police accident
Please be aware, there will be occurrences contained in this data that are not relevant to the question. Those will be
occurre
nces that were included in the rectangle on the map but not on Church Road.
PLEASE NOTE: This is not official South Wales Police data and should not be used for comparative purposes unless
exactly the same extraction methodology can be guaranteed.
THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000, AND IS CORRECT
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