How many road traffic accidents resulting in (a) injury and (b) fatality there have been on the A70 within the South Ayrshire and East Ayrs…

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 following table gives the numbers of such accidents which were identified in the STATS 19 returns as occurring on the A70 in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, and those that had at least one fatality.
It should be noted that the statistics given below 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 authorities would provide now, because they do not take account of any subsequent changes or corrections that local authorities may have made to the statistical information, for use at local level, about the location of each accident, based upon their knowledge of the roads and areas concerned.
Injury Road Accidents on the A70 in South Ayrshire and East Ayrshire

|
| 2000
| 2001
| 2002
| 2003
| 2004

South Ayrshire
| All injury road accidents
| 20
| 15
| 8
| 17
| 11

of which: Fatal accidents
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 2

East Ayrshire
| All injury road accidents
| 20
| 17
| 24
| 19
| 16

of which: Fatal accidents
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 1