Collision data, analysed properly, without the four-week wait
We work with the Department for Transport's STATS19 records every week to publish free maps for 125 towns and cities. The same pipeline produces site reports for planning submissions, corridor studies for councils, and evidence for campaigns. Site reports are £95 and arrive the next working day.
Why people come to us
Collision and casualty data is needed for almost every Transport Statement, road safety case and scheme bid, and the usual route is a request to the highway authority followed by a wait and a fee. We hold the same national source data, already processed, so a site report comes back the next working day with the analysis written, not just a spreadsheet of records. Our published work covers 125 areas over 2021–2025 and is checked in public: the method is documented and every free map on this site runs on the same pipeline.
Four things, priced openly
No enquiry form to find out what it costs, and no vague “bespoke analysis” — every section of every report is listed below, along with what each one deliberately does not do. If your job is not on this list, ask anyway.
Community, campaign and press requests
Free
Usually same day · Residents' groups, campaign organisations, councillors, journalists, students
You receive
PDF summary + CSV + a map image cleared for publication
What it covers
- ✓Any ward, junction or corridor in the areas we cover
- ✓Mapped collisions with severity, five-year trend and road breakdown
- ✓Figures cleared for publication, with the method stated so an editor can check them
- ✓CSV of the underlying counts
What it is not
- –No written recommendations — we give you the evidence, you make the argument
- –Not scoped for planning submissions; use the site report for that
All we ask is a credit and a link to the source page if you publish. This is how our data gets used and checked, so it stays free.
Most requested
Site or junction collision report
£95
Next working day · Transport consultants, planning agents, developers, architects, highways teams
You receive
8–12 page PDF + CSV of every record + GeoJSON of the collision points
Every section, in order
- ✓Study area map with every injury collision plotted and severity-coded
- ✓Five-year collision and casualty totals, with the year-by-year series
- ✓Severity split, including the severity-adjusted serious figure and why it differs from the raw count
- ✓Casualty breakdown by road user: pedestrian, cyclist, motorcyclist, vehicle occupant
- ✓Junction and road-class breakdown within the radius
- ✓Any site inside the radius that recorded a collision in three or more separate years
- ✓Comparison against the host authority's rate per billion vehicle miles, and against its ONS statistical neighbours
- ✓Named source files, extract date and stated limitations — the section a reviewer checks first
What it is not
- –Not a Road Safety Audit and not a substitute for one
- –No site visit, no contributory-factor narrative from police reports
Priced to sit under most approval thresholds, so nobody needs to raise a purchase order. Default radius 500m; tell us if you need a different one.
Corridor, route or ward study
From £350
Three to five working days · Councils, consultancies, BIDs, transport partnerships
You receive
20–30 page PDF + full working data + presentation-ready charts and maps
Every section, in order
- ✓Everything in the site report, applied across a whole route, ward or district rather than one point
- ✓Cluster identification along the corridor, ranked by severity rather than raw count
- ✓Vulnerable road user analysis: where on the route people outside a vehicle are being hurt
- ✓Benchmarking against the authority's ONS statistical neighbours, not just the national average
- ✓Time-of-day, day-of-week and light-condition patterns where the counts support it
- ✓Commentary written to drop into a committee paper or funding bid
What it is not
- –Modelled casualty savings and economic appraisal are not included at this tier
Our Birmingham ward report — 69 wards, mapped and ranked — is an example of the format at this level.
Scheme evaluation, before and after
From £450
Five working days · Anyone who has installed something and needs to show whether it worked
You receive
15–25 page PDF + matched period data + control site data
Every section, in order
- ✓Matched before and after periods around your intervention date, of equal length
- ✓Control comparison against similar untreated locations, so a national trend is not mistaken for your scheme working
- ✓Severity-adjusted figures, which matter more here than anywhere else — a force changing recording system mid-evaluation can look like a scheme succeeding or failing
- ✓An explicit statement of whether the change is larger than normal year-to-year variation
- ✓Written for monitoring conditions and funding reporting
What it is not
- –We will not produce a number that supports a conclusion the data does not support
If the effect is not distinguishable from chance, the report says so. That is the finding, and it is worth knowing before somebody else points it out.
Before you commission anything
Is this the same data the council would sell me?
It comes from the same collection. STATS19 is the national record of injury collisions reported to police; the DfT publishes it openly and highway authorities hold their own copy, sometimes with extra local fields such as contributory factors. For most Transport Statements and safety cases the open data is what gets used. If your validating authority specifically requires their certified extract, buy that from them and use ours for the analysis and mapping around it. We would rather tell you that now than after you have paid us.
What do I actually receive?
A PDF report with maps, tables and written analysis, plus a CSV of the underlying records so your own team can interrogate it. Everything is labelled with the source files and date range so it survives scrutiny in a committee or an appeal.
Why is community work free when consultants pay?
Because the free work is what makes the paid work credible. Campaign groups and local newsrooms use our figures in public, which means the numbers get checked by people with every incentive to find a mistake. That is worth more to us than a small fee, so residents' groups, campaigners, councillors and journalists pay nothing.
How fast is next working day, really?
Requests in before mid-afternoon on a weekday are usually back the following day, because the processing is already built. Larger studies take three to five days as they need judgement rather than just extraction. If you have a submission deadline, say so and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.
Can I see the standard of the work first?
Yes, all of it. Everything we publish is the same output a commission produces: the ward-by-ward analysis of Birmingham covers every fatal and serious collision over five years, mapped and ranked, and is free to read in full. If that is the depth you need for your own area, that is what you would receive.
Tell us what you need
We confirm scope, price and turnaround before any work starts, and invoice on delivery. Community and press requests go through the same form: choose the free option.
Prefer email? help@swiftassistuk.co.uk. Coverage is UK-wide for collision analysis; police street-level crime data is not published for Scotland, which affects crime work only.
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Need this data for your own work?
Site and junction reports from £95, next working day. Free for community groups, campaigners and journalists.