Road accidents and casualties

1 Jul 2008 03:21 PM Scotland's Chief Statistician yesterday published Key 2007 Road Accident Statistics.

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)

More detailed analyses of the final 2007 figures will appear later in the year, in the publication Road Accidents Scotland 2007.

Related Information

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/06/27141223/0