Earlier this year I contacted the traffic office at Durham police and the highways office at Durham County Council to request a speed survey to be carried out along the A1086 Coast Road between Blackhall Rocks and Crimdon (please see post dated Tuesday 6 April 2021 https://robcrute-blackhall.blogspot.com/2021/04/speed-survey-scheduled-for-a1086-coast.html for background information).
I received the following update last month from the traffic management officer at Durham police:
Hi Rob,
Durham County Council have now undertaken a speed survey on the A1086 road near to Crimdon Terrace between 15th and 22nd April, 2021.
As you know these speed surveys are designed to give a true reflection of vehicle speeds which are not influenced by a uniformed presence. So the data can give us a direction of if to target enforcement resources to the location.
After considering the data provided while the average speed was found to be 41 mph on this 40 mph restricted section of A1086 Coast Road, there were a number of vehicles within our escalation levels where Police enforcement action would be considered.
Although we can’t quantify it, given the strategic importance of this road a number of the higher end speeds recorded are likely to be attributed to blue light vehicles.
I’ve added the below table just to give an overview of the outcome of the speed survey.
Date of Survey | Average Daily Traffic Flow | ≤40 MPH | 41-45 MPH | 46-50 MPH | 51-55 MPH | 56-60 MPH | ≥60 MPH | Mean Speed | 85%ile Speed |
15/04 – 22/04/21 | 8863 | 4227 48% | 2983 34% | 1062 12% | 344 4% | 130 1% | 117 0% | 41 mph | 46 mph |
(shaded area is percentage of vehicles within Police enforcement threshold)
(while there are some vehicles in the 0% level they are so small in numbers that they do not register as a percentage)
As this just meets our levels for further specific enforcement attention as the next step I will undertake a Risk Assessment to see if we can target the road with Mobile Safety Camera technology.
Forwarded by way of update.
