New plans for Streatham Hill - as collisions rise again

Nicole Griffiths: Safer A23

Transport for London is to share its plans to improve safety on the A23 in Streatham Hill at an informal evening workshop on Tuesday 13th March.

The workshop comes as latest figures show collisions on the A23 through Streatham continue to increase. In 2016 there were 113 collisions between Streatham Hill, junction with the South Circular, and Streatham High Road's border with Croydon, including 10 crashes resulting in life-changing injuries. Thankfully, there were no fatalities.

The underlying trend, however, appears to be for increasing danger on the road. The five-year figure for collisions rose from 471 to 489, with serious injuries rising from 41 to 45 and deaths falling from eight to seven.

This trend can’t be stated with certainty as, from September 2016 onwards, the police have used a new method of recording injuries and figures for serious and slight injuries are not directly comparable with previous years (severity of injuries is thought to have been under-recorded in the past).

	Total collisions	Serious injury	Death
2012-16	489	45	7
2011-2015	471	41	8

2011	95	3	1
2012	79	7	2
2013	90	8	0
2014	101	9	3
2015	106	11	2
2016	113	10	0

TfL's workshop will be 6-7.30pm on Tuesday March at Winkworth's estate agent, 46-50 Streatham Hill. All welcome. Please join the guest list here.