Analyses were made of numbers of casualties and amounts of traffic at the Easter, Whitsun and August Bank Holiday weekends of 1956 to 1965. The results show that: (1) Whit Monday is usually the day with the most traffic, followed closely by August Bank Holiday Monday and Whit Sunday. These days have, on the average, about 10 per cent more traffic than average midsummer Sundays. (2) Variations in weather on public holidays can result in variations in vehicle-miles over Great Britain as a whole of up to about plus or minus 10 per cent. (3) Casualty rates on public holiday Mondays are not markedly different from those for normal Sundays at the same time of the year. Rates for all casualties per million motor vehicle miles average about 1 per cent less on holiday Mondays than on comparable Sundays; driver casualty rates average 15 per cent less. Rates for Good Friday are similar to those for normal Fridays at the same time of year, and slightly greater than those for normal Sundays. (4) Casualty rates on public holidays, and at the holiday weekends generally, depend markedly on the weather. Over a wet weekend the rate for all casualties can be up to about 20 per cent greater than usual on account of the weather, and the driver rate can be twice as great as usual. (5) The ratios of passenger casualties to driver casualties are higher on holiday Mondays than on normal Sundays. In other respects, the proportions of the various classes of casualty are much the same on holidays as on normal Sundays. (Author)


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    Title :

    Casualty Rates at the Easter, Whitsun and August Public Holidays


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    Publication date :

    1967


    Size :

    37 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English