EIR/202400399449 · FOI/EIR · not held
Serious injury and fatality road accidents statistics: EIR release
Information requested
Can you provide the most recent annual statistics for road accidents that resulted in serious injury and fatality on Scottish Roads can you provide a breakdown of the above statistics per road type e.g. Motorway, Rural, Urban etc?
Can you provide the statistics of the primary causes of these accidents on rural roads?
Response
As the information you have requested is 'environmental information' for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
Your request asked for the most recent annual statistics, so I have provided the analysis below based on the most recent year for which we have complete statistics, which is 2022. This time period is the latest covered in our most recent annual statistics publication: Reported Road Casualties Scotland 2022.
I would note that we do hold collision records for 2023, but these are incomplete as we are still receiving and processing records from Police Scotland for calendar year 2023. These statistics will be published on a provisional basis in May 2024.
We do not hold information on the primary causes of collisions, but I have provided the most common contributory factors recorded for collisions in the table below.
Contributory factors reflect the reporting police officer's initial opinion as to what factors may have contributed to the collision and are recorded at the time of reporting. A reporting officer may select up to 6 contributory factors.
Injury collisions by type of location and severity, 2022 Fatal Serious Total Motorway 4 71 75 Urban 39 771 810 Rural 110 685 795 Total 153 1527 1680 Top 10 contributory factors for injury collisions in rural areas by severity, 2022 Fatal Serious Total Loss of control 36 137 173 Failed to look properly (D/R) 18 127 145 Careless / reckless /in a hurry (D/R) 18 98 116 Failed to judge other persons path/speed (D/R) 11 75 86 Poor turn or manoeuvre 12 68 80 Travelling too fast for the conditions 11 55 66 Slippery road (due to weather) 3 61 64 Exceeding speed limit 14 31 45 Impaired by alcohol (D/R) 7 33 40 Illness or disability (mental/physical) (D/R) 11 21 32
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Detected exemption language
We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA. This exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes.
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