How many traffic incidents on the A90 from the Forth Road Bridge to Cramond Bridge have been related to the installation of traffic lights …

The A90 between the Forth Road Bridge and Cramond Bridge is classified as a local road. Traffic management and road safety measures on that section of road are therefore matters for the City of Edinburgh Council.Data about injury road accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the STATS 19 statistical report form. These returns cover only road accidents in which one or more people were injured: they do not cover damage-only accidents. The traffic lights for the bus lane on the southbound side of the A90 came into operation on 1 August 2000. STATS 19 returns have so far been received for nine months since that date. The returns for those nine months show that 15 injury road accidents were identified as occurring on the A90 between the Forth Road Bridge and Cramond Bridge. The returns do not provide information about the causes of the accidents, nor do they distinguish between accidents on the southbound lanes and those on the northbound.It should be noted that this figure is based upon the data which are held in the central statistical database and which were collected by the police at the time of the accident and subsequently reported to the Executive. They may differ from any figures which the local authority would provide now, because they do not take account of any subsequent changes or corrections that the local authority may have made to the statistical information, for use at local level, about the location of each accident, based upon its knowledge of the road and area concerned.