Road Accident Statistics in Scotland 2007

Published in June 2008, the ‘Key 2007 Road Accident Statistics’ bulletin presents provisional statistics of injury road accidents (i.e. road accidents in which one or more people were killed or injured) in Scotland in 2007.

The provisional figures show that there were a total of 16,063 road casualties, (1,200 or 7 per cent fewer than 2006), the lowest since 1950. Of which there were:

282 fatalities - 32 (or 10 per cent) fewer than 2006
2,316 seriously injured - 310 (or 12 per cent) fewer than 2006
2,598 killed or seriously injured - 342 (or 12 per cent) fewer than 2006
13,465 slightly injured - 858 (or 6 per cent) fewer than 2006
1,809 child casualties, 212 (10 per cent) fewer than in 2006, including 9 fatalities:
16 less deaths than in 2006, and the lowest since records began
9,953 car users casualties, 160 of whom died and 2,682 pedestrian casualties (including 61 fatalities)
1,039 motorcyclist casualties (40 of whom died), 706 pedal cyclist casualties and 616 bus and coach user casualties in 2007
208 or 74 per cent of all fatalities were male, and 74 (or 26%) were female
21 per cent (3,362) of all casualties were aged 16 -22, of which 2,008 were male (13 per cent of all casualties) and 1,352 were female (8 per cent of all casualties)

There are three national targets for casualty reductions by 2010- in all cases a larger reduction in casualties has been achieved:

2,598 people were killed or seriously injured in 2007, 46% below the 1994-98 baseline average level (target of 40 per cent)
271 children were killed or seriously injured in 2007: 68% below the 1994-98 average (target of 50 per cent)
A 2006 slight casualty rate of 32.64 casualties per 100 million vehicle kilometres (the latest available traffic volume estimate): 30 per cent below the 1994-98 average (target of 10 per cent)

For the provisional statistics click here

However a more detailed analyse of the final 2007 figures will be available on 24th November in the publication ‘Road Accidents Scotland 2007’ http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/Recent.