Car accidents on public roads: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
I would like to request information of how many car accidents on public roads there has been in the Cumbernauld area in the year 2023 and so far in the year 2024? If you can please supply the total number of car accidents on public roads in this time frame, and also the name of roads and dates of where these car accidents occurred. Thank you.
Response
The records we hold relate to collisions where someone is injured or killed, and which become known to Police Scotland. Therefore we do not hold information on non-injury collisions. The following table provides the requested information, based on the records that we hold.
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Collisions involving cars in the Cumbernauld area by severity |
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Fatal |
Serious |
Slight |
Total |
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2023 |
2 |
18 |
24 |
44 |
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2024 1 |
0 |
3 |
9 |
12 |
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1. Provisional to May 2024 |
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I also enclose a file with the information requested about the individual collisions that took place in the area. I would highlight that we do not hold street names for these collisions, we hold road numbers (eg B802) and a number of collisions took place on unclassified roads. The attached file does contain the Easting and Northing for each collision, and I have plotted the location of car collisions in the Cumbernauld area here: Cumbernauld area car collisions by transportscotland ยท MapHub Please note that the figures for 2024 are provisional as they are based on monthly returns received thus far from Police Scotland in 2024, with the most recent returns being received on 11th June 2024. This may be an incomplete picture of casualties up to that date due to a slight lag between records processed by Police Scotland and data availability. These figures are also subject to change due to subsequent corrections and late records.
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