How many road accidents have occurred in the Strathclyde Police divisions (a) N and (b) Q in each of the last five years.

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 accidents in which one or more people were injured: they do not cover damage only accidents.The Executive's statistical database can provide figures on the number of injury accidents by police force area, by local authority area and for specified lengths of individual roads.The areas covered by Strathclyde Police Divisions N and Q correspond to North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire Councils respectively. The following table gives the numbers of injury road accidents which were identified in the STATS 19 returns as occurring in North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire in the five years 1997 to 2001 inclusive.It should be noted that the statistics given are 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. Local Authority | Year | Injury Road Accidents
North Lanarkshire | 1997 | 964
1998 | 993
1999 | 922
2000 | 987
2001 | 944
South Lanarkshire | 1997 | 949
1998 | 979
1999 | 931
2000 | 900
2001 | 849