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Annex F Frequency of use of values of most STATS 19 variables: 2006

This annex lists most of the "Stats 19" variables, showing the values which were used in the returns for the latest year and the number of times each was used. Variables such as "grid reference" and "road number" are not listed, because they have many possible values.

Attendant circumstances variables

Police Force		Speed Limit		Road Type
Northern	747	10	2	Roundabout	576
Grampian	1,101	15	2	One way street	296
Tayside	1,021	20	97	Dual carriageway	1,992
Fife	677	30	7,470	Single carriageway	9,952
Lothian & Borders	2,758	40	652	Slip road	145
Central	701	50	327	Unknown	148
Strathclyde	5,662	60	3,819
Dumfries & Galloway	442	70	740	Pedestrian Crossing - Physical Facilities
				None within 50m	11,157
Month		Junction Control		Zebra crossing	108
January	949	Not at or near junction	6,871	Pelican, puffin or similar	821
February	1,030	Authorised person	22	Pedestrian phase at lights	906
March	1,020	Automatic traffic signal	1,154	Footbridge or subway	19
April	917	Stop sign	141	Central refuge	97
May	1,112	Give way or uncontrolled	4,921
June	1,053			Junction Detail
July	1,061	Weather Conditions		Not at or within 20 metres	6,852
August	1,136	Fine	9,577	Roundabout	819
September	1,261	Raining	2,263	Mini Roundabout	51
October	1,141	Snowing	73	T or staggered junction	3,175
November	1,236	Fine high winds	210	Slip Road	233
December	1,193	Raining high winds	499	Crossroads	1,019
		Snowing high winds	32	Multiple junction	164
Severity of Accident		Fog mist	94	Private drive	210
Fatal	293	Other	211	Other junction	586
Serious	2,247	Unknown	150
Slight	10,569			Road Surface Conditions
		First road class		Dry	7,429
Local Authority		Motorway	419	Wet or damp	5,276
Aberdeen City	389	A(m)	31	Snow	101
Aberdeenshire	549	A	5,887	Frost or ice	271
Angus	280	B	1,809	Flood over 3cm deep	32
Argyll & Bute	310	C	449
Clackmannanshire	103	Unclassified	4,514	Special Conditions at site
Dumfries & Galloway	442			None	12,744
Dundee City	331	Second road class		Automatic traffic signal out	32
East Ayrshire	257	No second road class	6,961	Automat traffic sig part defective	10
East Dunbartonshire	186	Motorway	69	Road sign defective or obscured	20
East Lothian	217	A(m)	1	Roadworks	140
East Renfrewshire	138	A	805	Road surface defective	31
Edinburgh, City of	1,449	B	485	Oil or diesel	81
Eilean Siar	41	C	243	Mud	50
Falkirk	283	Unclassified	4,543
Fife	677			Carriageway hazards
Glasgow City	1,873	Light Conditions		None	12,668
Highland	621	Daylight street lights present	5,359	Vehicle load in carriageway	20
Inverclyde	198	Daylight no street lights present	3,612	Other object in carriageway	207
Midlothian	236	Daylight street lights present unknown	188	Involved previous accident	26
Moray	163	Darkness street lights present and lit	2,512	Pedestrian in cgwy not injured	72
North Ayrshire	279	Darkness street lights present and unlit	124	Animal in cgwy-not horse	115
North Lanarkshire	751	Darkness no street lights	1,259
Orkney Islands	40	Darkness street lights present unknown	55	Did a police officer attend?
Perth & Kinross	410			Yes	10,803
Renfrewshire	455	Pedestrian Crossing - Human Control		No-accident reported over counter	2,295
Scottish Borders	375	None within 50 metres	12,756
Shetland Islands	45	School crossing patrol	60	Contributory Factors
South Ayrshire	270	Other authorised person	293	Please see the section on the Contributory Factors
South Lanarkshire	720
Stirling	315
West Dunbartonshire	225
West Lothian	481

Vehicle variables

Police Force		Manoeuvres		Vehicle leaving carriageway
Northern	1,191	Unknown	25	Unknown	5
Grampian	1,788	Reversing	331	Did not leave c'way	18,141
Tayside	1,729	Parked	832	Left c'way nearside	1,951
Fife	1,149	Waiting to go ahead/held up	1,224	Left c'way nearside rebound	257
Lothian & Borders	4,650	Slowing/stopping	1,384	Left c'way ahead junction	104
Central	1,212	Moving off	726	Left c'way offside onto central reservation	79
Strathclyde	9,522	U turn	162	Left c'way offside onto central res & rebound	59
Dumfries & Galloway	721	Turning left	489	Left c'way offside and crossed central res	39
		Waiting to turn left	113	Left c'way offside	1,169
Month		Turning right	1,525	Left c'way offside and rebounded	158
January	1,554	Waiting to turn right	445
February	1,701	Changing lane left	151	Hit object off carriageway
March	1,692	Changing lane rght	151	Unknown	4
April	1,527	Overtaking moving vehicle offside	441	None	19,072
May	1,886	Overtaking stationery vehicle offside	178	Road sign traffic signal	222
June	1,739	Overtaking nearside	154	Lamp post	216
July	1,774	Ahead left hand bend	1,384	Telegraph pole electricity pole	65
August	1,916	Ahead right hand bend	1,361	Tree	382
September	2,103	Ahead other	10,886	Bus stop bus shelter	14
October	1,937			Central crash barrier	148
November	2,108	Other vehicle hit		Nearside or offside crash barrier	265
December	2,025	0	7,873	Submerged in water	1
		1	6,033	Entered ditch	292
Breath test		2	7,304	Other permanent object	1,281
Not applicable	137	3	584
Positive	464	4	123	First point of impact
Negative	12,128	5	27	Unknown	7
Not requested	4,742	6	10	None	1,534
Refused to provide	47	7	4	Front	11,201
Driver not contacted	3,263	8	2	Back	3,507
Not provided (medical)	1,181	10	1	Offside	3,015
		12	1	Nrside	2,698
Sex of driver
Not Known	3	Junction location of vehicle		Towing and Articulation
Male	14,656	Unknown	3	Unknown	6
Female	6,311	Not at or within 20 metres	10,812	No towing or articulation	21,536
Not traced	992	Approach junction or wait/park approach	5,108	Articulated vehicle	232
		Cleared junction or wait/park at exit	1,212	Double or multiple trailer	12
Vehicle Reference Number		Leaving roundabout	318	Caravan	17
1	13,109	Entering roundabout	548	Single trailer	112
2	7,365	Leaving main road	363	Other tow	46
3	1,140	Entering main road	551
4	242	Entering from slip rd	124	Hit and run
5	57	Mid-junction on roundabout/main road	2,923	Other	20,653
6	19			Hit run	962
7	12	Skidding and overtaking		Non-stop vehicle, not hit	347
8	7	Not known	6
9	5	None	17,660	Vehicle location at time of acc - Lane
10	3	Skidding	2,686	Unknown	6
11	2	Skid overtd	892	On main carriageway	21,086
12	1	Jacknifed	15	Tram light rail track	27
		Jackn overtd	5	Bus lane	195
Type of Vehicle		Overturned	698	Busway	213
Unknown	8			Cycle lane	35
Pedal cycle	807	Hit object in carriageway		Cycleway	17
Motor cycle 50cc and under	107	Unknown	5	On lay-by hard shldr	89
Motor cycle over 50 to 125cc	239	None	20,869	Entering lay-by hard shldr	21
Motor cycle over 125 to 500cc	274	Prev accident	13	Leaving lay-by hard shldr	39
Motor cycle over 500cc	471	Road works	19	Footway	233
Taxi/private hire car	474	Parked vehicle	402
Car	16,391	Bridge roof	8	Journey Purpose of driver/rider
Minibus (8-16 pass seats)	87	Bridge side	32	Journey as part of work	4,270
Bus coach (17+ pass seats)	980	Bollard refuge	59	Commuting to/from work	2,671
Other motor vehicle	409	Open door vehicle	11	Take pupil to/from school	207
Other non-motor vehicle	7	Central island roundabout	40	Pupil ride to/from school	33
Ridden horse	4	Kerb	280	Other/not known	14,780
Agricultural vehicle	80	Other object	171
Goods up to 3.5t mgw	925	Animal excluding ridden horse	53	Foreign registered vehicle
Goods over 3.5t to < 7.5t mgw	230			Not foreign reg veh	21,824
Goods 7.5t mgw and over	468			Foreign reg LH drive	80
				Foreign reg RH drive	16
				Foreign reg 2 wheeler	41
				Other/not known	1

Vehicle movement from/to		Age of driver		Age of driver
Unknown	6	Unknown	607	51	281
Parked	911	0	3	52	274
U turn from north	50	4	4	53	286
North to north east	17	5	10	54	254
North to east	242	6	10	55	276
North to south east	36	7	18	56	257
North to south	3,746	8	21	57	233
North to south west	49	9	16	58	257
North to west	488	10	29	59	255
North to north west	10	11	26	60	217
North east to north	14	12	27	61	158
U turn from north east	1	13	30	62	192
North east to east	7	14	25	63	144
North east to south east	26	15	24	64	118
North east to south	17	16	85	65	125
North east to south west	331	17	442	66	108
North east to west	22	18	629	67	106
North east to north west	35	19	622	68	83
East to north	488	20	583	69	80
East to north east	11	21	525	70	88
U turn from east	49	22	482	71	73
East to south east	15	23	438	72	48
East to south	159	24	443	73	64
East to south west	23	25	575	74	59
East to west	4,048	26	439	75	59
East to north west	25	27	412	76	54
South east to north	32	28	426	77	38
South east to north east	39	29	339	78	39
South east to east	27	30	596	79	37
U turn from south east	2	31	371	80	36
South east to south	3	32	413	81	23
South east to south west	21	33	452	82	23
South east to west	22	34	452	83	28
South east to north west	331	35	1,003	84	21
South to north	3,994	36	501	85	10
South to north east	43	37	481	86	23
South to east	521	38	468	87	3
South to south east	20	39	532	88	5
U turn from south	41	40	669	89	13
South to south west	12	41	489	90	4
South to west	233	42	494	91	3
South to north west	35	43	449	92	4
South west to north	31	44	450	98	3
South west to north east	353	45	470
South west to east	47	46	423
South west to south east	36	47	351
South west to south	10	48	359
South west to west	9	49	352
South west to north west	21	50	435
West to north	174
West to north east	19
West to east	4,120
West to south east	22
West to south	421
West to south west	7
U turn from west	36
West to north west	13
North west to north	2
North west to north east	18
North west to east	25
North west to south east	323
North west to south	25
North west to south west	38
North west to west	7
U turn from north west	3

Casualty variables

Police Force		Pedestrian direction
Northern	1,057	Not pedestrian	14,416
Grampian	1,459	Pedestrian standing still	289
Tayside	1,306	Heading North	679
Fife	909	Heading North East	60
Lothian & Borders	3,558	Heading East	526
Central	928	Heading South East	46
Strathclyde	7,407	Heading South	556
Dumfries & Galloway	643	Heading South West	42
		Heading West	458
Month		Heading North West	40
January	1,225	Unknown	155
February	1,340
March	1,333	Casualty Class
April	1,230	Driver or rider	9,513
May	1,444	Passenger - vehicle/pillion	4,903
June	1,366	Pedestrian	2,851
July	1,443
August	1,509	Pedestrian location
September	1,666	Not pedestrian	14,416
October	1,464	In carriageway, crossing pedestrian crossing	252
November	1,651	In carriageway, crossing in zig zag crossing approach	14
December	1,596	In carriageway, crossing in zig zag crossing exit	7
		In carriageway crossing elsewhere within 50 metres	280
Sex of casualty		In carriageway crossing elsewhere	1,492
Unknown	14	Footway or verge	218
Male	9,724	On refuge, central island or central reservation	11
Female	7,529	Centre carriageway not refuge, central island or reservation	110
		In carriageway not crossing	278
Road user		Unknown other	189
Pedestrian	2,851
Pedal cycle	781	Pedestrian movement
Motor cycle	1,068	Not pedestrian	14,417
Car	10,704	Crossing driver nearside	979
Taxi	248	Crossing driver nearside mskd	271
Minibus	94	Crossing driver offside	684
Bus/Coach	763	Crossing driver offside masked	186
Light goods vehicle	393	In carriageway stationary not crossing	152
Heavy goods vehicle	191	In carriageway stationary not crossing masked	24
Other	174	Walking in carriageway facing traffic	48
		Walking in carriageway back to traffic	59
Severity of casualty		Unknown	447
Killed	314
Serious	2,625	Car passenger
Slight	14,328	Not car passenger	13,274
		Front seat car passenger	2,596
Bus or coach passenger		Rear seat car passenger	1,397
Not psv passenger	16,530
Boarding	47	Pedestrian injured in the course of 'on the road' work
Alighting	90	Not a pedestrian	15,149
Standing passenger	211	No	1,973
Seated passenger	389	Yes	106
		Not known	39
School pupil casualty
All other casualties	16,864
Pupil to/from school	403

Age of casualty		Age of casualty		Casualty Reference Number
Unknown	32	49	244	1	13,109
0	14	50	249	2	2,794
1	48	51	175	3	850
2	35	52	177	4	293
3	87	53	179	5	123
4	81	54	160	6	47
5	87	55	148	7	26
6	111	56	150	8	14
7	132	57	160	9	7
8	138	58	148	10	4
9	141	59	180
10	151	60	146	Vehicle Reference Number
11	141	61	122
12	220	62	118
13	216	63	100	1	10,697
14	192	64	95	2	6,078
15	227	65	117	3	431
16	313	66	83	4	41
17	569	67	81	5	13
18	687	68	76	6	6
19	583	69	86	8	1
20	532	70	91
21	455	71	77
22	420	72	66
23	372	73	62
24	354	74	70
25	402	75	69
26	338	76	65
27	287	77	63
28	291	78	57
29	240	79	62
30	267	80	65
31	250	81	54
32	244	82	40
33	311	83	33
34	292	84	40
35	360	85	28
36	281	86	39
37	284	87	18
38	306	88	15
39	328	89	15
40	345	90	9
41	273	91	6
42	296	92	5
43	281	93	3
44	259	94	3
45	250	95	1
46	268	97	1
47	212	98	7
48	203	99	3

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