Transport Scotland - Road accidents in Scotland data: FOI release

Information requested

1. How many road accidents were in Scotland over all, over the past 5 years?

2. How many road accidents were in Scotland on a national Speed limit road, over the past 5 years?

3. How many road accidents were in Scotland on a national Speed limit road, involves HGV over 7.5 tonnes, over the past 5 years?

4. How many accidents did Police Scotland say Speed was a contributing factor on National Speed limits in these accidents whether involving HGV or other vehicles?

Response

The records we hold relate to collisions where someone is injured or killed, and which become known to Police Scotland. The following tables provide information based on what is collected.

The speed limits provided in the tables below relate to the general speed limit applicable to the road on which the collision occurred, not to that governing a specified class of vehicle.

For the purpose of the final table, we have taken ‘accidents where Police Scotland say speed was contributory factor’ to mean collisions where a police officer attended the collision and 'driver or rider exceeding speed limit' was recorded as a factor contributing to the collision. There are potentially other ways that we could have defined this, for example including collisions where a driver was recorded as driving ‘too fast for conditions’ or a driver was recorded as being ‘careless, reckless or in a hurry’.

Injury road collisions in Scotland, 2019 to 2023, by speed limit
	Under 20	20	30	40	50	60	70
2019	1	547	2,774	350	223	1,497	381
2020	0	381	1,871	254	132	1,036	223
2021	1	515	1,655	242	157	1,050	287
2022	1	532	1,779	264	158	1,092	323
2023	1	487	1,817	282	176	1,178	310

 

Injury road collisions involving HGVs 7.5 tonnes or over in Scotland, 2019 to 2023, by speed limit
	20	30	40	50	60	70	Total
2019	3	36	11	16	67	48	181
2020	1	26	7	7	50	13	104
2021	8	14	10	16	43	30	121
2022	3	28	8	13	44	31	127
2023	2	14	6	5	58	30	115

 

Injury road collisions where speed contributed to the collision, 2019 to 2023, by speed limit
	20	30	40	50	60	70	Total
2019	0	5	78	17	5	51	165
2020	0	7	55	4	6	29	105
2021	0	12	59	7	8	34	129
2022	1	16	69	8	11	41	156
2023	0	15	69	15	9	55	173

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