Mapping Problems
The province of North Brabant will use information from insurer Interpolis to make locations where minor accidents regularly occur safer.
This includes collisions in parking lots or accidents with (moped) cyclists where there is damage, but no emergency services are called. These locations are currently a “blind spot” and with this data, municipalities and the province can more specifically identify where traffic safety can be improved, according to deputy Stijn Smeulders (traffic).
The insurer has shared anonymized data of such incidents from the past four years with the province. This involves nearly 60,000 accidents, thousands of which were not previously known to municipalities and the province, the road administrators. The data can reveal locations where things regularly go wrong. Smeulders calls the data “valuable”. “We must do everything we can to make our traffic safer.”