Category Archives: Police

Anti-social driving

Posted on April 2, 2024 by lancasterdynamo

Following the recent news that the new Chief Constable of Lancashire plans to target anti-social driving, Dick wrote to the Deputy Police & Crime Commissioner for Lancashire, Andrew Pratt: Dynamo was pleased to see the new chief constable, Sacha Hatchett … Continue reading →

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Killed and serious injured (KSI) numbers for 2022/23

Posted on October 13, 2023 by lancasterdynamo

Dynamo has received KSI details for the year from July 2022 from Lancashire Constabulary. Details here. (Please note that the second column is too narrow to show the full year in the title row; it starts with 2022 and continues … Continue reading →

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Latest KSI figures

Posted on August 30, 2022 by lancasterdynamo

Dick asked the police force for the latest KSI (killed and seriously injured) figures for our district. Here is the document from April 2021 to March 2022. Fortunately there were no fatalities. From the accompanying letter: Please find attached an … Continue reading →

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Cyclist KSI figures in Lancaster district 2019-2020

Posted on November 17, 2021 by lancasterdynamo

Below are figures and details of cyclists seriously injured (fortunately no fatalities) in our district in 2019 and 2020. They are similar to previous years (see report on 2016-2018). Letter from Lancashire Constabulary Excel spreadsheet of incidents resulting in serious … Continue reading →

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Analysis of cyclist casualty figures 2016-18

Posted on May 13, 2020 by lancasterdynamo

As promised, Jim has crunched the numbers provided to Dynamo by Lancashire Constabulary for cyclist casualties in the 3 years 2016, 2017 and 2018 (the latest years for which we have figures) and written an analysis.  The main points are: … Continue reading →

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Cyclist casualty details for 2016-2018

Posted on May 4, 2020 by lancasterdynamo

Dynamo submitted a Freedom of Information request to Lancashire Constabulary for details of cyclist casualties, including location and age, for the 3 years 2016, 2017 and 2018.  We have now received the data, and “Numbers” Jim is currently analysing it.  … Continue reading →

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Killed and seriously injured figures for Lancaster

Posted on October 27, 2019 by lancasterdynamo

Dynamo asked Lancashire Constabulary for figures for killed and seriously injured (KSI) figures for cyclists in Lancaster district for the last 3 complete years.  The figures are: Nature of incident 2016 2017 2018 Total Fatal 0 1 2 3 Serious … Continue reading →

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Notes of bike theft meeting

Posted on June 23, 2019 by lancasterdynamo

Notes of our meeting with Police Community Support Officers to discuss bike theft are available.  Do keep an eye open for details of free bike-coding events; there are Facebook pages for Lancaster Area Police and Morecambe Area Police, and we will … Continue reading →

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Safety cameras for cyclists

Posted on December 6, 2017 by lancasterdynamo

Dynamo member, Ben Cooper, writes about his experience of using a safety camera to record his cycle rides. I have always felt a little sceptical about using a video camera on my bike. I’ve commuted the same route every day for almost … Continue reading →

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Police action on “safe passing”

Posted on October 21, 2017 by lancasterdynamo

Thank you to everyone who responded to us with details of roads where cyclists are frequently given too little room by overtaking motorists. We have passed a list of the worst roads to the police officers, and they have said they will accommodate them … Continue reading →

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