How many road accidents there were that resulted in death or injury to cyclists in the last three years in each police force area, broken d…

Data about injury roadaccidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executiveusing the STATS 19 statistical report form.
The table gives the numberof road accidents that resulted in death or injury to cyclists in the lastthree years by police force area, severity and rate per hundred thousand of thepopulation. Where an accident involved more than one cyclist casualty theseverity of the accident has been graded according to the highest severity ofcyclist casualty.
It should be noted that thestatistics given are based upon the data which are held in the central statisticaldatabase and which were collected by the police at the time of the accident andsubsequently reported to the Executive. They may differ from any figures whichthe local authority would provide now, because they do not take account of anysubsequent changes or corrections that the local authority may have made to thestatistical information, for use at a local level, about the location of eachaccident, based upon its knowledge of the road and area concerned.
Police Force
| Accident Severity
| Numbers
| Rates Per 100,000 Population

2000
| 2001
| 2002
| 2000
| 2001
| 2002

Northern
| Fatal
| 3
| 0
| 2
| 1.1
| 0.0
| 0.7

Serious
| 9
| 9
| 11
| 3.2
| 3.3
| 4.0

Slight
| 35
| 41
| 36
| 12.6
| 14.8
| 13.1

Grampian
| Fatal
| 2
| 2
| 1
| 0.4
| 0.4
| 0.2

Serious
| 5
| 15
| 11
| 0.9
| 2.9
| 2.1

Slight
| 70
| 58
| 64
| 13.3
| 11.0
| 12.2

Tayside
| Fatal
| 0
| 3
| 0
| 0.0
| 0.8
| 0.0

Serious
| 14
| 13
| 12
| 3.6
| 3.3
| 3.1

Slight
| 47
| 55
| 50
| 12.0
| 14.1
| 12.9

Fife
| Fatal
| 1
| 0
| 2
| 0.3
| 0.0
| 0.6

Serious
| 11
| 8
| 5
| 3.2
| 2.3
| 1.4

Slight
| 32
| 40
| 21
| 9.2
| 11.4
| 6.0

Lothian and Borders
| Fatal
| 2
| 2
| 0
| 0.2