Road Angel BlackSpot
Est. Manchester, 2011
Verified dataset — Tuesday 14 January
Road Angel BlackSpot · For Fleets
A verified, junction-level index of Britain's accident hotspots — built by 47,800 reporting motorists, cross-checked against STATS19 police collision data, and tuned for the routes your drivers actually drive.
No claim of accident prevention. Road Angel BlackSpot informs drivers — it does not replace fleet operator judgement, telematics, or driver training.
Chapter 01 · Verification
Every BlackSpot grade on our map is the product of a three-stage audit that a procurement officer can read on one page. We built the audit because fleet buyers told us — repeatedly — that raw driver anecdotes aren't an acceptable basis for route-risk policy. Here's the full chain, in the order it actually happens.
A motorist files a report through the Road Angel BlackSpot site or mobile companion (312,000 downloads across iOS and Android as of January 2025). Each submission is locked to a postcode and matched to the nearest indexed junction from our 218,472-junction database — the largest open dataset of UK junctions outside the Department for Transport.
Every report is run against the official STATS19 police collision record for the same junction and calendar window. We reject, downgrade, or escalate the warning accordingly. Across 1.2 million community-submitted hazard reports since launch, our confirmation rate against police logs stands at 94%.
Verified incidents feed our proprietary postcode-level BlackSpot Score — a 0–100 severity index now cited by 31 local councils in their road safety plans. The score, the underlying police cross-check, and the contributing motorist IDs (anonymised) are all available to fleet partners via our API for inclusion in driver briefing packs and route-risk audits.
Audit authored by Road Angel BlackSpot Ltd, Manchester. Founded 2011 by former Metropolitan Police traffic analyst David Hargreaves. Reviewed by our team of six ex-collision investigators and two chartered civil engineers.
Network coverage · Strategic road network
England, Wales and Scotland — 100% of A-roads, B-roads and motorway junctions on the strategic road network. No operating region is blank on our map. If your fleet runs it, we score it.
Fleet Operations
Built for fleet managers who need route risk in writing, not in dashboards. Each deliverable is a discrete file, feed, or weekly bulletin your drivers and dispatchers can act on without leaving their normal workflow.
A point-to-point written report scoring every junction on your regular corridors against the BlackSpot index and the last 36 months of STATS19 collisions. Delivered as a signed PDF and a CSV keyed to your route IDs — ready to drop into a driver briefing or a tender response.
Printed-ready, single-page briefings for the ten highest-severity junctions on each driver's daily run. Each sheet shows the BlackSpot Score, a 200-word plain-English hazard note, and a photographic still from the dashcam partner network where available.
A free REST endpoint feeding geofenced hotspot warnings into the in-cabin displays of 140,000+ dashcam-equipped drivers through our partner network. Latency under 400 ms, vehicle-agnostic, no proprietary hardware required.
A Monday-morning bulletin summarising newly confirmed blackspots, score changes inside your operating regions, and seasonal hazards (low sun, ice, school-run timings). Subscribers using the bulletin have reported an average 38% drop in recorded near-miss incidents.
Positioning
In-cab telematics tells you what your own drivers did. BlackSpot tells you what the road did to everyone else, validated against 14 years of police collision records. The two read better together.
Subscribers who combine BlackSpot briefings with their existing telematics feed report an average 38% reduction in recorded near-miss incidents.