Written Question · S1W-22815 · Session 1
How many road accidents were (a) recorded and (b) reported to the Procurator Fiscal by each police force in each month since May 1997 and h…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many road accidents were (a) recorded and (b) reported to the Procurator Fiscal by each police force in each month since May 1997 and how many such accidents were recorded as being caused by adverse or winter weather conditions.
The answer
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 returns do not provide information about the causes of the accidents.Accidents for which adverse or winter weather conditions were reported as an attributable factor are not identified as such in the STATS 19 returns. The returns do, however, include information about the weather and the road surface condition at the time of the accident. The following table 1 lists the number of injury road accidents by month and police force from May 1997 to October 2001, the latest month for which information for each force area is held centrally. The following table 2 lists the number of these injury road accidents which occurred in what might be regarded as adverse or winter weather conditions. The following types of accidents were counted for the purpose of producing the figures in this table
- those for which either (a) the weather was recorded as one of the following: snowing; fine with high winds; raining with high winds; fog or mist (if hazard); or other adverse weather conditions; or (b) the road surface condition was recorded as one of the following: snow; frost/ice; or flood (surface water over 3 cm deep). In the tables all figures for 2001 are provisional.Information on road accidents which lead to a report to Procurators Fiscal is not held centrally.Table 1 Injury road accidents by month and police force:May 1997 to October 2001 | | Northern | Grampian | Tayside | Fife | Lothian & Borders | Central | Strathclyde | Dumfries & Galloway | Scotland
1997 | May | 89 | 125 | 117 | 77 | 280 | 67 | 611 | 40 | 1,406
| June | 96 | 121 | 96 | 69 | 294 | 88 | 621 | 33 | 1,418
| July | 98 | 137 | 98 | 58 | 270 | 83 | 627 | 45 | 1,416
- those for which either (a) the weather was recorded as one of the following: snowing; fine with high winds; raining with high winds; fog or mist (if hazard); or other adverse weather conditions; or (b) the road surface condition was recorded as one of the following: snow; frost/ice; or flood (surface water over 3 cm deep). In the tables all figures for 2001 are provisional.Information on road accidents which lead to a report to Procurators Fiscal is not held centrally.Table 1 Injury road accidents by month and police force:May 1997 to October 2001 | | Northern | Grampian | Tayside | Fife | Lothian & Borders | Central | Strathclyde | Dumfries & Galloway | Scotland
1997 | May | 89 | 125 | 117 | 77 | 280 | 67 | 611 | 40 | 1,406
| June | 96 | 121 | 96 | 69 | 294 | 88 | 621 | 33 | 1,418
| July | 98 | 137 | 98 | 58 | 270 | 83 | 627 | 45 | 1,416
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-22815 by reference.