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Road accident figures for South Lanarkshire: EIR release

Published: 22 November 2018
Topic: Public sector, Transport

Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.

FOI reference: FOI/18/03122
Date received: 26 October 2018
Date responded: 20 November 2018

Information requested

“In the past I have received some road accident figures for South Lanarkshire and Scotland and I was wondering whether I could receive the same ones for 2017?"

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.

ROAD CASUALTIES BY MONTH IN 2017
		Source	Transport Scotland request
	Fatal	Serious	Slight	Total
All Casualties by month in South Lanarkshire Council, Year: 2016
January	3	8	51	62
February	1	6	39	46
March	-	11	41	52
April	1	4	40	45
May	3	11	48	62
June	-	8	47	55
July	3	7	53	63
August	2	5	36	43
September	1	4	43	48
October	2	1	34	37
November	2	9	35	46
December	-	9	39	48
Total	18	83	506	607
Adult Casualties by month in South Lanarkshire Council, Year: 2016
January	3	7	46	56
February	1	5	37	43
March	-	9	37	46
April	1	3	34	38
May	3	11	42	56
June	-	7	40	47
July	3	6	49	58
August	2	4	35	41
September	1	4	38	43
October	2	1	31	34
November	2	7	32	41
December	-	6	35	41
Total	18	70	456	544
Child Casualties by month in South Lanarkshire Council, Year: 2016
January	-	1	5	6
February	-	1	2	3
March	-	2	4	6
April	-	1	6	7
May	-	-	5	5
June	-	1	6	7
July	-	1	4	5
August	-	1	1	2
September	-	-	5	5
October	-	-	3	3
November	-	2	3	5
December	-	3	4	7
Total	-	13	48	61

b. Road accidents – residents of South Lanarkshire and accident in South Lanarkshire in 2017	Residents of South Lanarkshire	Accident in South Lanarkshire
Aberdeen City	0.0%	0.0%
Aberdeenshire	0.3%	0.0%
Angus	0.7%	0.0%
Argyll & Bute	1.5%	0.4%
Clackmannanshire	0.0%	0.0%
Dumfries & Galloway	1.1%	0.5%
Dundee City	0.0%	0.2%
East Ayrshire	2.0%	0.9%
East Dunbartonshire	1.7%	0.4%
East Lothian	0.0%	0.0%
East Renfrewshire	10.0%	0.7%
Edinburgh, City of	0.7%	1.3%
Eilean Siar	0.0%	0.0%
Falkirk	0.3%	0.2%
Fife	0.3%	0.2%
Glasgow City	7.5%	8.3%
Highland	0.5%	0.0%
Inverclyde	0.0%	0.0%
Midlothian	0.0%	0.0%
Moray	0.0%	0.0%
North Ayrshire	0.0%	0.4%
North Lanarkshire	12.0%	10.1%
Orkney Islands	0.0%	0.0%
Perth & Kinross	1.8%	0.0%
Renfrewshire	1.5%	0.7%
Scottish Borders	0.7%	0.4%
Shetland Islands	0.0%	0.2%
South Ayrshire	2.3%	0.0%
South Lanarkshire	71.2%	71.2%
Stirling	1.4%	0.2%
West Dunbartonshire	3.0%	0.4%
West Lothian	3.8%	1.1%
Elsewhere in UK	0.0%	2.4%

c. South Lanarkshire road accidents by road type in 2017 – separately for killed, seriously injured, slightly injured.

Trunk & Motorway

Local Auth. Major Non Built Up

Local Auth. Minor Non Built Up

Local Auth. Major Built Up

Local Auth. Minor Built Up

Local Auth. Non Built Up

Local Auth. Built Up

All LA roads

ALL ROADS

d. Pedestrians involved in road accidents in 2017 – South Lanarkshire and Scotland.

Fatal

Serious

Slight

All severities

e. Estimated traffic volumes in 2017 – South Lanarkshire and Scotland

Motorways

Urban Trunk Roads

Rural Trunk Roads

Urban Non-trunk

Rural Non-trunk

All major roads

Minor roads

ALL ROADS

f. Drink driving statistics for 2017 – South Lanarkshire and Scotland

Motorists involved

Breath test requested

Positive / refused

g. Killed or seriously injured in 2017 – South Lanarkshire and Scotland

CHILDREN 0 TO 15

Trunk roads

Local Authority roads

All roads

ADULTS

Trunk roads

Local Authority roads

All roads”

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