SpeedWatch
Community Speed Watch is a partnership initiative, using the combined efforts of local residents and parish councils. By working together, Community Speed Watch enables local people to become actively involved in helping to slow down traffic in 30mph zones within their community.
Evenley Parish Council has supported SPEEDWATCH since 2012 to bring focus and awareness to users of our village roads of the speeds that we endure.
Speedwatch seeks
- to reduce excessive speed in Northamptonshire parishes within 30mph limits
- to change people’s attitudes towards speeding
- to create a safer environment
- to empower communities to work together in partnership with road safety agencies
In addition to this Evenley Parish Council has purchased a vehicle activated speed sign for use on Broad Lane and received funding from Northants PFCC for a solar panel (for the existing sign) and a new sign on Bicester Hill.
These signs show actual vehicle speeds to users in an attempt to draw attention to their excessive speed but they will not store individual vehicle information. The data can be seen below.
DATA ARCHIVE
2023
Data from January 2023 to June 2023
DATA ARCHIVE
2022
Data from May 2021 to March 2022
2021
Data from Oct 2020 to Feb 2021
2020
Data from 1st April to 10th May 2020 (pre chicane)
Data from 11th May to 16th June 2020
2019
As part of the programme, speed data was collected before and after our planned time with the enforcement equipment. Please click on the following links to view the data:
Data 10.05.19 - 20.05.19 Data 03.07.19 - 10.07.19
As a community, we generated 129 Police warning letters.
In addition to our activity, the Police visited Evenley six times in the past 12 months and detected 48 offences, which will have resulted in prosecution notices being sent.
2019 Data from the Broad Lane VAS
VAS sign data for the period 5 Jan until 12 May 2019; positioned top of Broad Lane facing A43.
- Top speed 81 mph
- Average speed 29 mph
- 37% some 233,756 vehicles exceeded the speed limit.
2018 Data from the Broad Lane VAS
VAS sign data for the period 1 Aug until 3 Nov 2018; positioned top of Broad Lane facing A43.
- Total number of vehicles recorded over 95 days = 46574 (some time the sign was down due to battery replacement issues so total unread)
- Top speed 73 mph
- Average speed 29.1 mph
- 37% some 17,343 vehicles exceeded the speed limit.
SPEEDWATCH FEB/MARCH 2018
As part of the programme, speed data was collected before and after our planned time with the enforcement equipment. Please click on the following links to view the data:
Data 22.01.18 - 29.01.18 Data 23.03.18 - 04.04.18
As a community, we generated 43 Police warning letters. In addition to our activity, the Police visited Evenley three times in the past 12 months and have detected 26 offences.
The VAS sign whilst positioned bottom of Broad Lane facing village green from 1st to 30th April 2018 captured the following traffic speed data (please note: during this time the A43 was closed during the night):
- Total number of vehicles recorded over 30 days = 43,995 (1465 v/day)
- Top speed 59 mph
- Average speed 25.4 mph
The VAS sign whilst positioned top of Broad Lane facing towards the A43 from 26th Feb to 28th March 2018 captured the following traffic speed data:
- Total number of vehicles recorded over 31 days = 11007
- Top speed 70.5 mph
- Average speed 29 mph
38.4 % of vehicles are exceeding the 30mph speed limit
The VAS sign whilst positioned top of Broad Lane facing towards the A43 from 1st January to 26th Feb 2018 captured the following traffic speed data:
- Total number of vehicles recorded over 56 days = 28853 (515 v/day)
- Top speed 118 mph
- Average speed 29 mph
Over 42% of vehicles are exceeding the 30mph speed limit
2017
The VAS sign whilst positioned top of Broad Lane facing towards the A43 from Saturday19th November to Monday 27th Feb 2017 captured the following traffic speed data:
- Total number of vehicles recorded 156214 over a 101-day period average per day = 1546
- Top speed 76 mph
- Average speed 29 mph
Over 44% of vehicles are exceeding the 30mph speed limit
2016
The VAS sign whilst positioned outside 4 Broad Lane facing in to the village from Sunday 16th October to Friday 18th November 2016 captured the following traffic speed data:
- Total number of vehicles recorded 51825 over a 34-day period average per day = 1524
- Top speed 64 mph
The VAS sign whilst positioned top Broad Lane facing towards the A43 from Thursday 4th Aug to Wednesday 12th October 2016 captured the following traffic speed data:
- Total number of vehicles recorded 101,601 over a 70-day period average per day = 1451
- Top speed 78.7mph
Click on the links below for detail Traffic surveys taken by the police on Broad Lane during August/September 2016. It shows that 49% of drivers travel in excess of the 30 mph speedlimit based on around 1200 vehicle movements per day.
Police Traffic Survey Broad Lane 21st to 29th June 2016
Police Traffic Survey Broad Lane 30th to 07th September 2016
The VAS sign whilst positioned on Bicester Hill from 18th July to 3rd Aug 2016 captured the following traffic speed data:
- Total number of vehicles recorded 8957 over 17day period average per day = 526
- Top speed 74mph average speed 28.2mph
The VAS Sign has now been moved to top of Broad Lane facing towards A43
2015
For older records back to 2012 please contact our Parish Clerk
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