Fire and Rescue RTI extrications

Again, this uses data released by the Home Office on Fire and Rescue involvement in Road Traffic Collisions. These data are in very aggregated form, and not entirely useful for analysis. However, I’m just trying to understand the data available before I think harder about what questions you might want to ask. There is one interesting table on extrications by Fire and Rescue Service. I’ve summed the numbers for the last three years and used some ONS mid-year population estimates to create a rate.

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.

So this would imply that North Yorkshire has a high per capita rate of road collisions that require support from the Fire and Rescue service. One other comment is that Devon and Somerset have high numbers of Roof Flap and Side Removal incidents; these are not entirely explanained by per-capita rates.

Some of the todos that arise from this

• I need to find out why I’m not getting a population for Cumbria Fire and Rescue service
• I’d like to look at the trends over time here, I’m sure they have a powerful story to tell.
• I’ve a lot to do cosmetically with the maps (it was quite difficult having each map with it’s own z axis scale/legend. I ended up using the patchwork package to create each map separately and re-assembled them with wrap_plots().