Pat Kilbey
Head of Road Safety Statistics Unit
Department for Transport
Pat.kilbey@dft.gsi.gov.uk

• Standard national electronic system for England and
Wales to enable the secure
– Collection
– Management of collision investigations
– Validation
– Transmission and
– Storage of collision details.
to meet police business needs and government statistical requirements
• Provide an optional mobile solution
• Importation and auto population of collision details

• The system will deal with all aspects of a collision, including
– Initial details at collision scene
– Collision investigation
– Administration
– File management
– STATS19 completion
• Optional system with a back office and an optional mobile solution
• Front Office, Back Office and Mobile Device screens
• Flexible XML interface

• Once-only submission
• Single database Intelligence
• Linked to national databases
• Accessible via Web browsers
• Centralised Support & Maintenance
• Annual operating costs
• Electronic transfer of validated STATS19

• Officer attends collision with mobile device
• GPS gives exact location of collision
• Officer inputs minimum data
– Addresses added from post codes
– Name checked on PNC
– VRM checked on PNC
• Police and statistics (NCRF and NCSR report forms integrated and only required fields displayed
• Printing at scene
• Officer receives warning if not submitted within specified time

Interfaces:
• GPS, PNC, Mapping, Case Preparation systems, PentiP,
KeyACCIDENT and AccsMap
Other features:
• Management process e.g. reminders ‘paperless’ system
• Letters and forms
• Audit trail
• Merge duplicate reports
• Electronic transfer to other forces
• National collision details immediately available
• Local stats fields
• Training and Online Help

Quality improvements for statistics :
• Statistics fully integrated within police accident reporting
• Details e.g. personal, vehicle and location can be confirmed and the reports can be compiled and essential parts validated at the scene of the collision.
• Maximise the automated importation of data from other systems
• Drop down menus/help to ensure correct input eg severity classification
• Notify missing data and complete validation before final submission.
Improved quality but also potential for access to a wider range of data without adding to the burden of data collection

• The contract to develop the software has was awarded end of
2008
• Clarification of requirements and design completed, software under development and an initial demonstration system produced
• Testing with 3 pilot forces in spring 2011
• Roll-out to other forces starting mid 2011
Further information:
NPIA Business Change Manager: Inspector Geoff Goodall: geoff.goodall@npia.pnn.police.uk
General: PatKilbey/David Wilson RSS, DfT website