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Road casualty statistics
20/06/2011
Scotland's Chief Statistician today published Key 2010 Reported Road Casualty Statistics. This bulletin presents provisional statistics of road injury accidents and casualties reported to the police.
Main Findings
2010 provisional figures show there were 13,324 reported road casualties, (1,719 or 11 per cent fewer than 2009), the lowest figure recorded. Of which there were:
- 208 fatalities: eight (or 4 per cent) fewer than 2009
- 1,960 seriously injured: 326 (or 14 per cent) fewer than 2009
- ? 2,168 killed or seriously injured: 334 (or 13 per cent) fewer than 2009
- ? 11,156 slightly injured: 1,385 (or 11 per cent) fewer than 2009
- ? 1,375 child casualties, 98 (7 per cent) fewer than in 2009, including four fatalities: one less death than in 2009
Mode
- 8,293 car users injured (13 per cent fewer than 2009); including 105 fatalities (9 per cent fewer than 2009)
- 2,011 pedestrian casualties (9 per cent fewer than 2009); including 47 fatalities (the same as 2009)
- 844 motorcyclist casualties (17 per cent fewer than 2009); including 35 fatalities (8 less than 2009)
- 781 pedal cyclist casualties (3 per cent fewer than 2009); including 636 slightly injured (11 fewer than 2009), 138 seriously injured (14 fewer than 2009) and 7 fatalities (two more)
- ? 538 bus and coach user casualties in 2010 (14 per cent higher than 2009)
Age & Gender
- Male road casualties fell by 11per cent (to 7,534 in 2010), with fatalities falling by 10 per cent (to 146). Males account for 70 per cent of all reported road fatalities
- Female road casualties fell by 12 per cent (to 5,780) with fatalities increasing by 15 per cent (to 62 in 2010)
- 19 per cent (2,488) of all casualties were aged 16-22, of which 1,457 were male (11 per cent of all casualties) and 1,031 were female (8 per cent of all casualties)
There are currently three GB-wide national targets for casualty reductions by 2010- in all cases a larger reduction in casualties has been achieved:
- 2,168 people were killed or seriously injured in 2010, 55 per cent below the 1994-98 baseline average level (target of 40 per cent)
- 226 children were killed or seriously injured in 2010: 73 per cent below the 1994-98 average (target of 50 per cent)
- A 2009 slight casualty rate of 28.36 casualties per 100 million vehicle kilometres (the latest available traffic volume estimate): 39 per cent below the 1994-98 average (target of 10 per cent)
Progress towards casualty reduction targets is shown in section 8 of the bulletin. In 2000, the UK Government, the then Scottish Executive and the National Assembly for Wales announced a new road safety strategy and casualty reduction targets for 2010.
The targets, which were given in the document Tomorrow's roads - safer for everyone, are based on the annual average casualty levels over the period 1994 to 1998, and are for a:
- 40 per cent reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents
- 50 per cent reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured
- 10 per cent reduction in the slight casualty rate, expressed as the number of people slightly injured per 100 million vehicle kilometres
These are provisional statistics of injury road accidents (i.e. road accidents in which one or more people were killed or injured) in Scotland in 2010. Final figures will be published in Reported Road Casualties Scotland 2010 in October and will include extensive analyses of the numbers of accidents, vehicles and casualties.