Fire and Rescue reporting of RTIs

Now, it’s important to note we are talking about very different things here. In theory all vehicular road collisions in which someone is injured should be reported to the police. Other services are only involved when the injuries are serious enough. But, at an aggregate level you would expect some kind of association between the number of incidents reported to the police and the number attended by the Fire and Rescue service. I’ve recently had my attention drawn to some of the data released by the Home Office on Fire and Rescue involvement in Road Traffic Collisions. Unlike the STATs19 (Police Recorded Data) it’s very aggregate, but it is possible to make some comparisons. The following are based on Table FR904 which details the number of fatalities and casualties attended. We can do the comparisons fairly simply from 2016

• STATs19 contains a Local Authority District (LAD) field
• There are lookups that relate LAD to Fire and Rescue Service from 2016
• We can therefore count the number and type of STATs19 record in each given Fire and Rescue service area from 2016.

There are data back to 2010 from the Fire and Rescue service, but there wasn’t an off-the-shelf lookup; so that’s going to take a little more time.

First of all, we can just consider looking at the number of fatalities reported by STATs19 in each Fire and Rescue Service area and the number of fatalities they themselves reported they attended.

It’s also interesting to look at this on a per-capita basis, using mid-year population estimates for each local authority aggregated to Fire and Rescue Service areas.

And we can do something similar for casualties. I had hoped to look at the more serious casualties only among the Fire and Rescue Service data, but there are three authorities count all casualties and unknown.