Written Question · S2W-03564 · Session 2
How many road traffic accidents there were on Renfrewshire roads in each of the last five years and how many of these required the assistan…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many road traffic accidents there were on Renfrewshire roads in each of the last five years and how many of these required the assistance of a fire service road rescue unit.
The answer
Data about injury roadaccidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the STATS 19 statistical report form. These returns cover onlyaccidents in which one or more people were injured: they do not cover “damageonly” accidents.
Information on theinvolvement of fire service road rescue units in road accidents is held locallyby fire brigades and relates to both injury and damage only accidents.
The following table givesthe number of road traffic injury accidents in Renfrewshire in the years 1998to 2002 inclusive and the number of road traffic accidents that required theassistance of a fire service road rescue unit on roads in Renfrewshire in the years1999 to 2002 inclusive. It has not been possible to provide the figure for 1998within the timeframe for this question.
It should be noted that thestatistics given in the table for injury road accidents are based upon the datawhich are held in the central statistical database and which were collected bythe police at the time of the accident and subsequently reported to theExecutive. They may differ from any figures which the local authority wouldprovide now, because they do not take account of any subsequent changes orcorrections that the local authority may have made to the statisticalinformation, for use at a local level, about the location of each accident,based upon its knowledge of the road and area concerned.
Year
| Injury Road Accidents
| Road Accidents Involving Fire Service Road Rescue Unit
1998
| 529
| Not available
1999
| 536
| 85
2000
| 478
| 72
2001
| 465
| 48
2002
| 479
| 82
Information on theinvolvement of fire service road rescue units in road accidents is held locallyby fire brigades and relates to both injury and damage only accidents.
The following table givesthe number of road traffic injury accidents in Renfrewshire in the years 1998to 2002 inclusive and the number of road traffic accidents that required theassistance of a fire service road rescue unit on roads in Renfrewshire in the years1999 to 2002 inclusive. It has not been possible to provide the figure for 1998within the timeframe for this question.
It should be noted that thestatistics given in the table for injury road accidents are based upon the datawhich are held in the central statistical database and which were collected bythe police at the time of the accident and subsequently reported to theExecutive. They may differ from any figures which the local authority wouldprovide now, because they do not take account of any subsequent changes orcorrections that the local authority may have made to the statisticalinformation, for use at a local level, about the location of each accident,based upon its knowledge of the road and area concerned.
Year
| Injury Road Accidents
| Road Accidents Involving Fire Service Road Rescue Unit
1998
| 529
| Not available
1999
| 536
| 85
2000
| 478
| 72
2001
| 465
| 48
2002
| 479
| 82
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-03564 by reference.