How many (a) fatal and (b) serious road accidents have occurred in each police board area in each of the last five years involving people a…

Data about injury road accidentsare collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the Stats19 statistical report form. These returns obtain information about the ages of thedrivers and riders involved in accidents, and the ages of the people who were injured.They do not collect any information about any other people who were involved butnot injured in the accident.
The following tables give thenumber of fatal and serious road accidents which involved one or more drivers orriders in each of the age-groups shown in the tables.
It should be noted that the sumsof the figures for the different age-groups are greater than the overall total numbersof accidents which are shown in the tables. This is because an accident may involveseveral drivers or riders, who may fall into different age-groups. For the purposeof preparing the figures for the different age-groups, each accident has been countedonce (and only once) for each of the different age-groups which is represented amongthe drivers and riders who were involved in that accident. For example, an accidentwhich involved drivers aged 25, 35, 45 and 55 would be counted once against the“25 to 39” age-group and once against the “40 to 65” age-group. However, each accidenthas been counted only once for the purpose of producing the overall totals (“Allfatal accidents” and “All serious accidents”) that are shown in the tables.
Fatal and Serious Accidents,Which Involved Drivers or Riders in each of the Age-Groups Shown in the Table,by Police Force Area: 1999 to 2003
(a) (i) Numbers of Fatal Accidents
| 1999
| 2000
| 2001
| 2002
| 2003

Police Force
| Age of Driver/Rider

Northern
| 17-24
| 12
| 7
| 8
| 10
| 6

25-39
| 15
| 20
| 16
| 12
| 13

40-65
| 17
| 21
| 13
| 10
| 17

Over 65
| 1
| 4
| 4
| 2
| 2

All fatal accidents
| 35
| 41
| 31
| 25
| 32

Grampian
| 17-24
| 15
| 15
| 20
| 18
| 13

25-39
| 16
| 23
| 18
| 18
| 25

40-65
| 11
| 19
| 22
| 24
| 22

Over 65
| 5
| 5
| 8
|