Road Accidents Scotland 2002

Table 17

Car Drivers

Cars drivers involved in accidents by manoeuvre and age of driver
Separately for built-up and non built-up roads
Years: 1998-2002 average

	Age of Driver					Total	Age of Driver					Total
	17-22	23-29	30-59	60 and over	not known or under 17	Total	17-22	23-29	30-59	60 and over	not known or under 17	Total
numbers							percentages
Built-up
Reversing	36	45	149	28	20	278	2.0	2.3	2.3	2.5	3.1	2.3
Parked	24	38	207	27	272	568	1.3	1.9	3.2	2.4	41.9	4.7
Stopping	61	76	255	31	14	437	3.4	3.8	3.9	2.8	2.2	3.6
Starting	13	16	61	15	9	113	0.7	0.8	0.9	1.3	1.3	0.9
U Turn	17	20	63	16	4	120	0.9	1.0	1.0	1.4	0.7	1.0
Turning/wtg turn left	59	61	219	46	21	406	3.3	3.1	3.4	4.1	3.2	3.4
Turning/wtg turn right	220	232	784	158	34	1,428	12.3	11.7	12.1	14.0	5.2	11.9
Changing lane	12	20	56	10	13	111	0.7	1.0	0.9	0.9	2.0	0.9
Overtaking	55	57	183	28	13	336	3.1	2.9	2.8	2.5	2.0	2.8
Going round bend	143	104	257	33	12	549	8.0	5.2	4.0	2.9	1.9	4.6
Going/wtg go ahead	1,146	1,317	4,223	734	235	7,656	64.2	66.3	65.4	65.1	36.2	63.8
Total ⁽¹⁾	1,785	1,985	6,457	1,128	648	12,003	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Non built-up
Reversing	4	2	14	4	0	24	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.3
Parked	5	8	42	5	18	79	0.4	0.7	1.1	0.7	14.3	1.1
Stopping	29	51	178	28	3	289	2.2	4.0	4.5	3.9	2.5	3.9
Starting	1	3	9	3	0	17	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.2
U Turn	3	4	12	3	0	22	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.3
Turning/wtg turn left	15	12	53	13	2	94	1.1	1.0	1.3	1.7	1.3	1.3
Turning/wtg turn right	60	61	262	94	6	482	4.6	4.8	6.6	12.9	4.6	6.5
Changing lane	16	20	55	10	7	109	1.2	1.6	1.4	1.3	5.3	1.5
Overtaking	75	67	166	24	12	343	5.7	5.3	4.2	3.2	9.3	4.6
Going round bend	461	315	813	127	18	1,734	35.2	24.9	20.5	17.3	14.3	23.4
Going/wtg go ahead	640	724	2,356	422	60	4,201	48.9	57.1	59.5	57.6	47.0	56.8
Total ⁽¹⁾	1,308	1,268	3,959	733	127	7,395	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Total
Reversing	39	47	163	32	21	302	1.3	1.4	1.6	1.7	2.7	1.6
Parked	29	47	249	32	290	647	0.9	1.4	2.4	1.7	37.4	3.3
Stopping	90	126	432	60	17	726	2.9	3.9	4.1	3.2	2.2	3.7
Starting	14	19	70	18	9	131	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.0	1.1	0.7
U Turn	19	24	75	19	4	142	0.6	0.7	0.7	1.0	0.6	0.7
Turning/wtg turn left	74	73	272	59	23	501	2.4	2.3	2.6	3.2	2.9	2.6
Turning/wtg turn right	279	293	1,045	253	40	1,910	9.0	9.0	10.0	13.6	5.1	9.8
Changing lane	28	40	112	20	20	220	0.9	1.2	1.1	1.1	2.6	1.1
Overtaking	130	124	349	52	25	679	4.2	3.8	3.4	2.8	3.2	3.5
Going round bend	604	419	1,069	159	31	2,283	19.5	12.9	10.3	8.6	3.9	11.8
Going/wtg go ahead	1,786	2,040	6,579	1,157	295	11,856	57.7	62.7	63.2	62.1	38.0	61.1
Total ⁽¹⁾	3,093	3,253	10,416	1,861	775	19,398	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

1. Totals include a small number of cases where the manoeuvre is unknown

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