Road Accidents Scotland 2005

Annex F Frequency of use of values of most STATS 19 variables: 2005

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	783	10	3	Roundabout	547
Grampian	1,200	20	90	One way street	327
Tayside	977	30	7,667	Dual carriageway	1,991
Fife	701	40	613	Single carriageway	10,237
Lothian & Borders	2,776	50	334	Slip road	159
Central	629	60	3,933	Unknown	136
Strathclyde	5,835	70	757
Dumfries & Galloway	496			Pedestrian Crossing - Physical Facilities
		Junction Control		None within 50m	11,383
Month		Not at or near junction	7,121	Zebra crossing	118
January	1,092	Authorised person	24	Pelican, puffin or similar	741
February	1,014	Automatic traffic signal	1,080	Pedestrian phase at lights	997
March	1,023	Stop sign	144	Footbridge or subway	21
April	992	Give way or uncontrolled	5,026	Central refuge	135
May	1,121
June	1,110	Weather Conditions		Junction Detail
July	1,066	Fine	9,968	Not at or within 20 metres	7,106
August	1,189	Raining	2,169	Roundabout	803
September	1,134	Snowing	181	Mini Roundabout	53
October	1,264	Fine high winds	242	T or staggered junction	3,260
November	1,227	Raining high winds	336	Slip Road	246
December	1,165	Snowing high winds	58	Crossroads	998
		Fog mist	53	Multiple junction	178
Severity of Accident		Other	276	Private drive	206
Fatal	264	Unknown	114	Other junction	547
Serious	2,245
Slight	10,888	First road class		Road Surface Conditions
		Motorway	402	Dry	7,627
Local Authority		A(m)	42	Wet or damp	5,180
Aberdeen City	430	A	5,858	Snow	194
Aberdeenshire	603	B	1,914	Frost or ice	375
Angus	306	C	479	Flood over 3cm deep	19
Argyll & Bute	324	Unclassified	4,702
Clackmannanshire	79			Special Conditions at site
Dumfries & Galloway	496	Second road class		None	13,016
Dundee City	270	No second road class	7,249	Automatic traffic signal out	30
East Ayrshire	259	Motorway	56	Automat traffic sig part defective	13
East Dunbartonshire	192	A(m)	3	Road sign defective or obscured	26
East Lothian	207	A	782	Roadworks	172
East Renfrewshire	127	B	426	Road surface defective	29
Edinburgh, City of	1,406	C	211	Oil or diesel	72
Eilean Siar	41	Unclassified	4,668	Mud	37
Falkirk	298
Fife	701	Light Conditions		Carriageway hazards
Glasgow City	1,952	Daylight street lights present	5,741	None	12,992
Highland	656	Daylight no street lights present	3,513	Vehicle load in carriageway	18
Inverclyde	172	Daylight street lights present unknown	209	Other object in carriageway	208
Midlothian	230	Darkness street lights present and lit	2,468	Involved previous accident	30
Moray	167	Darkness street lights present and unlit	129	Pedestrian in cgwy not injured	59
North Ayrshire	306	Darkness no street lights	1,285	Animal in cgwy-not horse	86
North Lanarkshire	788	Darkness street lights present unknown	52
Orkney Islands	40			Did a police officer attend?
Perth & Kinross	401	Pedestrian Crossing - Human Control		Yes	11,236
Renfrewshire	467	None within 50 metres	13,169	No-accident reported over counter	2,156
Scottish Borders	448	School crossing patrol	59
Shetland Islands	46	Other authorised person	168	Contributory Factors
South Ayrshire	284			Please see the section on the
South Lanarkshire	738			Contributory Factors
Stirling	252
West Dunbartonshire	226
West Lothian	479

Vehicle variables

Police Force		Manoeuvres		Vehicle leaving carriageway
Northern	1,256	Unknown	321	Unknown	9
Grampian	2,009	Reversing	310	Did not leave c'way	18,558
Tayside	1,627	Parked	797	Left c'way nearside	1,898
Fife	1,185	Waiting to go ahead/held up	1,408	Left c'way nearside rebound	282
Lothian & Borders	4,637	Slowing/stopping	1,307	Left c'way ahead junction	110
Central	1,089	Moving off	699	Left c'way offside onto central reservation	76
Strathclyde	9,775	U turn	155	Left c'way offside onto central res & rebound	79
Dumfries & Galloway	831	Turning left	441	Left c'way offside and crossed central res	38
		Waiting to turn left	126	Left c'way offside	1,176
Month		Turning right	1,600	Left c'way offside and rebounded	183
January	1,767	Waiting to turn right	416
February	1,660	Changing lane left	127	Hit object off carriageway
March	1,705	Changing lane rght	146	Unknown	7
April	1,637	Overtaking moving vehicle offside	474	None	19,560
May	1,935	Overtaking stationery vehicle offside	203	Road sign traffic signal	216
June	1,844	Overtaking nearside	135	Lamp post	221
July	1,795	Ahead left hand bend	1,453	Telegraph pole electricity pole	74
August	1,976	Ahead right hand bend	1,374	Tree	353
September	1,939	Ahead other	10,917	Bus stop bus shelter	14
October	2,127			Central crash barrier	136
November	2,078	Other vehicle hit		Nearside or offside crash barrier	250
December	1,946	0	9,144	Submerged in water	2
		1	5,561	Entered ditch	290
Breath test		2	6,923	Other permanent object	1,286
Not applicable	258	3	587
Positive	417	4	144	First point of impact
Negative	12,162	5	35	Unknown	10
Not requested	5,341	6	11	None	1,901
Refused to provide	53	7	1	Front	11,482
Driver not contacted	3,108	8	1	Back	3,418
Not provided (medical)	1,070	9	1	Offside	2,976
		10	1	Nrside	2,622
Sex of driver
Not Known	1	Junction location of vehicle		Towing and Articulation
Male	15,212	Unknown	4	Unknown	13
Female	6,225	Not at or within 20 metres	11,200	No towing or articulation	21,883
Not traced	971	Approach junction or wait/park approach	4,923	Articulated vehicle	272
		Cleared junction or wait/park at exit	1,503	Double or multiple trailer	18
Vehicle Reference Number		Leaving roundabout	403	Caravan	22
1	13,391	Entering roundabout	536	Single trailer	156
2	7,484	Leaving main road	279	Other tow	45
3	1,164	Entering main road	556
4	261	Entering from slip rd	103	Hit and run
5	75	Mid-junction on roundabout/main road	2,902	Other	21,177
6	22			Hit run	906
7	3	Skidding and overtaking		Non-stop vehicle, not hit	326
8	3	Not known	9
9	2	None	18,001	Vehicle location at time of acc - Lane
10	2	Skidding	2,791	Unknown	10
11	1	Skid overtd	858	On main carriageway	21,461
12	1	Jacknifed	19	Tram light rail track	51
		Jackn overtd	8	Bus lane	177
Type of Vehicle		Overturned	723	Busway	287
Unknown	19			Cycle lane	54
Pedal cycle	807	Hit object in carriageway		Cycleway	5
Motor cycle 50cc and under	113	Unknown	7	On lay-by hard shldr	87
Motor cycle over 50 to 125cc	211	None	21,407	Entering lay-by hard shldr	19
Motor cycle over 125 to 500cc	295	Prev accident	23	Leaving lay-by hard shldr	43
Motor cycle over 500cc	480	Road works	14	Footway	215
Taxi/private hire car	467	Parked vehicle	346
Car	16,714	Bridge roof	4	Journey Purpose of driver/rider
Minibus (8-16 pass seats)	84	Bridge side	39	Journey as part of work	3,998
Bus coach (17+ pass seats)	1,036	Bollard refuge	56	Commuting to/from work	2,685
Other motor vehicle	444	Open door vehicle	19	Take pupil to/from school	185
Other non-motor vehicle	16	Central island roundabout	28	Pupil ride to/from school	45
Ridden horse	6	Kerb	243	Other/not known	15,496
Agricultural vehicle	77	Other object	176
Goods up to 3.5t mgw	907	Animal excluding ridden horse	47	Foreign registered vehicle
Goods over 3.5t to < 7.5t mgw	217			Not foreign reg veh	22,210
Goods 7.5t mgw and over	516			Foreign reg LH drive	98
				Foreign reg RH drive	23
				Foreign reg 2 wheeler	37
				Other/not known	41

Vehicle movement from/to		Age of driver		Age of driver
Unknown	23	Unknown	576	51	298
Parked	887	0	3	52	293
U turn from north	41	3	1	53	288
North to north east	27	4	3	54	294
North to east	268	5	8	55	284
North to south east	41	6	18	56	235
North to south	4,009	7	20	57	261
North to south west	73	8	26	58	271
North to west	498	9	27	59	205
North to north west	12	10	17	60	217
North east to north	17	11	24	61	153
U turn from north east	3	12	17	62	176
North east to east	4	13	22	63	167
North east to south east	13	14	36	64	150
North east to south	25	15	31	65	112
North east to south west	348	16	93	66	122
North east to west	22	17	444	67	103
North east to north west	32	18	603	68	86
East to north	498	19	584	69	93
East to north east	14	20	567	70	97
U turn from east	50	21	472	71	82
East to south east	12	22	484	72	73
East to south	179	23	441	73	60
East to south west	31	24	523	74	84
East to west	4,130	25	542	75	48
East to north west	27	26	385	76	55
South east to north	32	27	408	77	42
South east to north east	26	28	381	78	42
South east to east	35	29	420	79	41
U turn from south east	4	30	614	80	29
South east to south	4	31	418	81	37
South east to south west	17	32	471	82	21
South east to west	28	33	461	83	27
South east to north west	325	34	555	84	17
South to north	4,031	35	1,177	85	17
South to north east	49	36	485	86	14
South to east	556	37	493	87	8
South to south east	11	38	501	88	11
U turn from south	31	39	506	89	4
South to south west	6	40	702	90	4
South to west	191	41	456	91	1
South to north west	46	42	462	92	1
South west to north	39	43	456	93	1
South west to north east	369	44	447	97	1
South west to east	56	45	487	98	12
South west to south east	30	46	381	99	2
South west to south	5	47	394
U turn from south west	3	48	385
South west to west	11	49	360
South west to north west	18	50	383
West to north	197
West to north east	32
West to east	3,974
West to south east	36
West to south	455
West to south west	12
U turn from west	45
West to north west	8
North west to north	3
North west to north east	23
North west to east	28
North west to south east	310
North west to south	31
North west to south west	35
North west to west	10
U turn from north west	3

Casualty variables

Police Force		Pedestrian direction
Northern	1,187	Not pedestrian	14,788
Grampian	1,597	Pedestrian standing still	298
Tayside	1,312	Heading North	659
Fife	929	Heading North East	45
Lothian & Borders	3,603	Heading East	565
Central	858	Heading South East	42
Strathclyde	7,643	Heading South	626
Dumfries & Galloway	692	Heading South West	40
		Heading West	554
Month		Heading North West	33
January	1,448	Unknown	171
February	1,297
March	1,324	Casualty Class
April	1,352	Driver or rider	9,703
May	1,486	Passenger - vehicle/pillion	5,085
June	1,467	Pedestrian	3,033
July	1,451
August	1,595	Pedestrian location
September	1,495	Not pedestrian	14,788
October	1,661	In carriageway, crossing pedestrian crossing	265
November	1,658	In carriageway, crossing in zig zag crossing approach	8
December	1,587	In carriageway, crossing in zig zag crossing exit	2
		In carriageway crossing elsewhere within 50 metres	308
Sex of casualty		In carriageway crossing elsewhere	1,551
Unknown	23	Footway or verge	238
Male	10,178	On refuge, central island or central reservation	15
Female	7,620	Centre carriageway not refuge, central island or reservation	142
		In carriageway not crossing	281
Road user		Unknown other	223
Pedestrian	3,033
Pedal cycle	780	Pedestrian movement
Motor cycle	1,082	Not pedestrian	14,789
Car	10,955	Crossing driver nearside	1,080
Taxi	249	Crossing driver nearside mskd	282
Minibus	69	Crossing driver offside	647
Bus/Coach	845	Crossing driver offside masked	227
Light goods vehicle	377	In carriageway stationary not crossing	166
Heavy goods vehicle	215	In carriageway stationary not crossing masked	20
Other	216	Walking in carriageway facing traffic	47
		Walking in carriageway back to traffic	64
Severity of casualty		Unknown	499
Killed	286
Serious	2,652	Car passenger
Slight	14,883	Unknown	6
		Not car passenger	13,683
Bus or coach passenger		Front seat car passenger	2,662
Not psv passenger	17,014	Rear seat car passenger	1,470
Boarding	57
Alighting	93	Pedestrian injured in the course of 'on the road' work
Standing passenger	214	Not a pedestrian	15,097
Seated passenger	443	No	2,494
		Yes	131
School pupil casualty		Not known	99
All other casualties	17,362
Pupil to/from school	459

Age of casualty		Age of casualty		Casualty Reference Number
Unknown	29	49	221	1	13,369
0	20	50	197	2	2,919
1	42	51	200	3	894
2	57	52	159	4	360
3	66	53	188	5	130
4	93	54	182	6	48
5	100	55	163	7	20
6	129	56	160	8	13
7	132	57	170	9	9
8	155	58	171	10	6
9	153	59	155	11	4
10	143	60	156	12	4
11	165	61	114	13	4
12	214	62	120	14	4
13	205	63	125	15	4
14	253	64	105	16	5
15	239	65	94	17	5
16	341	66	86	18	4
17	626	67	90	19	3
18	641	68	88	20	3
19	582	69	82	21	2
20	527	70	90	22	1
21	422	71	74	23	1
22	389	72	76	24	1
23	364	73	71	25	2
24	406	74	105	26	1
25	365	75	75	27	2
26	295	76	73	28	1
27	298	77	62	29	1
28	279	78	60	30	1
29	279	79	55
30	293	80	57	Vehicle Reference Number
31	295	81	60
32	295	82	51
33	302	83	32	1	10,981
34	348	84	33	2	6,329
35	428	85	38	3	416
36	300	86	21	4	71
37	318	87	17	5	17
38	294	88	17	6	7
39	309	89	19
40	363	90	12
41	295	91	11
42	293	92	6
43	277	93	7
44	247	94	3
45	275	95	2
46	232	96	2
47	220	98	10
48	258	99	5

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Annex F Frequency of use of values of most STATS 19 variables: 2005