The report finds that deprived ethnic minority (excluding white minority) pedestrians are more than three times more likely to be a casualty on Britain’s roads than white non-deprived pedestrians. Deprivation more than doubles the risk of becoming a pedestrian casualty. But even when deprivation is taken into account, people from an ethnic minority (excluding white minorities) are 25% more likely to be injured than white pedestrians.
The research looked at ten years of GB collision data for correlations between risk and community deprivation and ethnicity.
This increased risk may be due, in part, to the amount of time spent as a pedestrian, or employment patterns. People from ethnic minority groups and poorer communities are more likely to walk and less likely to have a car.
More details can be found in the report which has been produced by Agilysis using its own resources. We hope to work with interested parties to explore the evidence in more detail, understand community risk profiles in more depth, and hopefully find solutions to address this inequality.