South Tipperary & West Waterford road-safety comparison Silent explainer: no narration or music. 0–12 seconds South Tipperary & West Waterford Road-safety comparison 2018–2023 · six complete calendar years A fixed-population comparison of two defined areas. RSA collision records · CSO 2022 LEA data Silent explainer · no narration or music 12–25 seconds People killed 43 South Tipperary 5 West Waterford People killed are separate from collision records. RSA fatal-collision records · people-killed columns 2018–2023 · people, not events 25–38 seconds Fatal collision records 38 South Tipperary 5 West Waterford A record counts an event; one event can kill more than one person. RSA collision-map records · fatal events 2018–2023 · event count 38–50 seconds Serious-injury records 131 South Tipperary · 51 West Waterford About 24.33 vs 25.19 / 100,000 residents / year Similar record rates — not people and not all reported crashes. RSA collision-map records · serious injury 2018–2023 · record count 50–62 seconds The rate gap is specific Annual death rate 7.99 vs 2.47 / 100,000 residents / year About 3.2 times on this fixed-population basis. Serious-injury record rate 24.33 vs 25.19 / 100,000 residents / year Fixed 2022 resident populations · six-year annualisation Death rate and serious-record rate are different measures 62–75 seconds One local context Cahir–Cashel district · 2018–2023 23 people killed · 21 fatal records Highest raw death count among five Tipperary municipal districts. Clonmel’s fixed-population rate was slightly higher. Not a nationwide ranking. Existing five-district Tipperary comparison Context only · no crash ranking or causal finding 75–85 seconds Sources & scope West Waterford: five deaths. Small count; the estimate is uncertain. Resident population is not traffic exposure. RSA collision map · CSO 2022 LEA data Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here. RSA · CSO · Irish Statute Book S.I. No. 635/2018 Silent captioned explainer · transcript on the page Public source URLs RSA collision-map source CSV: https://public.tableau.com/views/MapofCollisions/SourceData.csv?:showVizHome=no RSA road-traffic collision data: https://www.rsa.ie/road-safety/statistics/road-traffic-collision-data CSO Census 2022 LEA population CSV: https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/census2022/SAPS_2022_CSOLEA270923.csv CSO 2022 LEA boundary service: https://services-eu1.arcgis.com/BuS9rtTsYEV5C0xh/arcgis/rest/services/CSO_Local_Electoral_Areas_National_Statistical_Boundaries_2022_Ungeneralised_view/FeatureServer Waterford municipal-district definition, S.I. No. 635/2018: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2018/si/635/made/en/html Audit footnote Primary strict-polygon audit result: South Tipperary has 131 serious-injury collision records, a rate of 24.33 per 100,000 residents per year, versus 51 records and 25.19 in West Waterford. A sensitivity using the RSA county text gives 130 and 24.15 for South Tipperary because one County=Cork record has coordinates inside Cahir LEA. Serious-injury records are collision records, not people and not all crashes. West Waterford has only five deaths, so the comparison is uncertain. Resident population is not traffic exposure, and this area-level comparison does not establish causation, fault, negligence, responsibility or legal liability. No formal Poisson confidence intervals are shown.