Transport Scotland - A9 & A82 Accident Information: EIR release

Information requested

How many fatalities and serious injuries were recorded on the single-carriageway sections of the A9 between Perth and Inverness and the single-carriageway sections of the A82 between Dalnottar and Inverness? The information to enumerate head-on crashes and right-turn crashes.

Data to cover:

2019 - 2020
2020 - 2021
2021 - 2022
2022 - 2023
2023 - 2024

Please provide the information in the form of an excel spreadsheet.

In order to make safety comparisons please give the figures in the form of accidents per 1 million vehicle-miles driven.

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.

Please see Annex A to this response for details of personal injury accidents occurred on the A9 trunk road between Perth and Inverness and the single-carriageway sections of the A82 trunk road between Dalnottar and Inverness for the dates required. 

Under the terms of the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held), Transport Scotland is not required to provide information which it does not have. We don't have some of the information you have requested because the accident data held does not contain details on head on collisions.

Transport Scotland holds data relating to individual personal injury accidents, which is supplied by Police Scotland. Transport Scotland does not hold a specific accident rate for the A9 between Perth and Inverness or the A82 between Dalnottar and Inverness.

This exception 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 exception. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception. While we recognise that there may be some public interest in information about accident data, clearly we cannot provide information which we do not hold.

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EIR 202400425928 - Information released - Annex A

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