North Solihull described as an accident "hot spot"

PEOPLE living in Smith’s Wood and Kingshurst are among the most likely in Solihull to be injured in a road traffic collision.
While the greatest number of incidents are recorded south of the A45, in areas such as Solihull town centre and Shirley, there is a disproportionately high number of victims in the north of the borough.
This is particularly the case for incidents involving under 16s, with North Solihull described as a “hot spot.”
The figures form part of Solihull Council’s latest road safety report and suggest that a historic problem has yet to be solved.
It is now eight years since David Jamieson, a former Road Safety Minister and now the West Midlands’ Police and Crime Commissioner, criticised figures which suggested that children in the north of the borough were at far greater risk on the roads.
Generally speaking, the number of people killed or seriously injured on the highways has fallen dramatically across the borough over the past 15 years.
At the turn of the Millennium, there were almost 140 incidents recorded in the space of a year, but by 2015 this had fallen to just over 40.
Children, young drivers and the elderly remain the groups most likely to be involved in a serious accident.