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10. Injury road accidents: adults (16+)
10.1 The interviewer asked the randomly selected-adult whether they had been injured in a road accident in the last twelve months. The results given here were produced from data for two years (2005 and 2006) combined, in order to provide a more reliable basis for analysis.
Chart K: Main means of travel to work - by annual net income
10.2 Table 18 shows that 1.3% of adults said they had been injured in a road accident in the past twelve months. There was little difference between population sub-groups: 1.4% of men had been injured in the past twelve months compared with 1.2% of women. 2.2% of people in the 16-19 age group had been injured, as had 2.5% of those aged 20-29 - compared with only 0.6-0.7% of those aged 60-79, and 0.3% for those aged 80+. The most common involvement in a road accident was as the driver of a vehicle: 0.8% of adults had been injured in this way.
10.3 The interviewer then asks those who had been injured in a road accident whether the police came to know of the incident. Table 19 shows that 36% said that the police had not been informed of the accident. As only 346 adults in the sample said they had been injured in a road accident in the past year, this figure has "95% confidence limits" of +/- about 6 percentage points - but whether the (unknown) true value is (say) 30% or 42%, it is still a large percentage.
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