Key 2007 Road Accident Statistics

Provides provisional numbers of accidents and casualties (with police force and council figures), and overall Scottish trends and progress towards the casualty reduction targets for the year 2010.


3. Reported numbers of Accidents (Table 1)

3.1 Table 1 shows the downward trend of injury road accidents recorded by the police since 1989. In 2007, there were 12,354 accidents in which someone was killed or injured, 6% fewer than in 2006. There were 256 fatal accidents in 2007 37(13%) fewer than in 2006 and the lowest number since records of fatal accidents began in 1970. In 2007, there were 1,981 serious injury accidents - a drop of 267 (12%) on 2006 - and 10,117 slight injury accidents reported in 2007 - 4% fewer than 2006 - again the lowest since current records began.

Table 1: Injury Road Accidents by Severity, 1970 - 2007

Fatal

Serious

Fatal and Serious

Slight

All Severities

1970

758

7,860

8,618

13,515

22,133

1975

699

6,912

7,611

13,041

20,652

1980

644

7,218

7,862

13,926

21,788

1985

550

6,507

7,057

13,587

20,644

1990

491

5,237

5,728

14,443

20,171

1995

361

4,071

4,432

12,102

16,534

1996

316

3,315

3,631

12,442

16,073

1997

340

3,312

3,652

12,994

16,646

1998

339

3,318

3,657

12,862

16,519

1999

285

3,209

3,494

11,921

15,415

2000

297

3,007

3,304

11,825

15,129

2001

309

2,840

3,149

11,573

14,722

2002

274

2,684

2,958

11,385

14,343

2003

301

2,496

2,797

11,120

13,917

2004

283

2,331

2,614

11,304

13,918

2005

264

2,250

2,514

10,922

13,436

2006

293

2,248

2,541

10,564

13,105

2007 prov.

256

1,981

2,237

10,117

12,354

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