6. Injury road accidents - adults (16+)(Tables 12 and 13)
6.1 The interviewer asked the randomly selected adult whether they had been injured in a road accident in the last twelve months and, if so, how they were travelling at the time of the accident. The respondent is then asked whether the accident was reported to the police. Table 12 shows that in 2005, 1.3% of adults said they had been injured in a road accident in the past twelve months.
6.2 There was some difference between population sub-groups; 1.5% of men had been injured in a road accident in the past twelve months compared with 1.2% of women. 2.5% of those in the 16-19 age group had been injured in a road accident; compared with 2.3% for those aged 20-29; 1.0% for those aged 30-39; 1.5% of those aged 40-49; 1.2% for those aged 50-59; 0.7% of those aged 60-69; 1.2% of those aged 70-79, and 0.5% for those aged 80+. The sub-group of the population with the highest percentage of adults being injured in a road accident is men aged 20-29 (2.9%). The most common involvement in an accident was as the driver of a vehicle, with 0.8% of adults being injured in a road accident as the driver of a vehicle.
6.3 The interviewer then asks those who had been injured in a road accident whether the police came to know of the incident. 35% said that the police had not been informed of the accident, as shown in Table 13. Given the small sample size (only 174 adults in the sample said they had been injured in a road accident in the past year), this figure has a "95% confidence interval" of +/- 7.9 percentage points, but whether the (unknown) true value is (say) 27% or 43%, it is still a large percentage.