Question reference: S5W-27572
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 24 February 2020
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Current status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 6 March 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) fatal and (b) serious accidents there have been on each road in the trunk road and motorway network in each year since 2017.
Answer
The following table presents the total number of fatal accidents for 2017, 2018 and 2019. However, the information on the total number of serious accidents for 2019 is only available up to the date stated in the table for each route.
Fatal and Serious Collisions 2017 to 2019 | ||||||||
Route | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Total | ||||
Serious | Fatal | Serious | Fatal | Serious | Fatal | Date information data is available to for serious accidents | ||
A1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 01-07-2019 | 18 |
A6091 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 01-07-2019 | 3 |
A68 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 01-07-2019 | 12 |
A7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 24-06-2019 | 9 |
A701 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24-06-2019 | 11 |
A702 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 01-07-2019 | 15 |
A720 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 01-07-2019 | 16 |
A725 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 11 |
A726 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 3 |
A737 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 16 |
A738 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 2 |
A75 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 24-06-2019 | 25 |
A751 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24-06-2019 | 0 |
A76 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 24-06-2019 | 21 |
A77 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 24-06-2019 | 40 |
A78 | 13 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 26 |
A8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 02-07-2019 | 10 |
A82 | 28 | 7 | 20 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 12-06-2019 | 73 |
A828 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 01-07-2019 | 6 |
A83 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 28 |
A830 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 01-07-2019 | 3 |
A835 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 01-07-2019 | 8 |
A84 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12-06-2019 | 15 |
A85 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 26-05-2019 | 33 |
A86 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01-07-2019 | 6 |
A87 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 01-07-2019 | 12 |
A876 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01-07-2019 | 2 |
A887 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01-07-2019 | 1 |
A889 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01-07-2019 | 0 |
A893 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 0 |
A898 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 2 |
A9 | 18 | 5 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 12-06-2019 | 69 |
A90 | 27 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 26-05-2019 | 59 |
A92 | 14 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 19-06-2019 | 33 |
A95 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30-06-2019 | 10 |
A956* | - | - | - | - | - | - | Not currently available | - |
A96 | 16 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 30-06-2019 | 39 |
A972 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26-05-2019 | 1 |
A977 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12-06-2019 | 2 |
A985 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12-06-2019 | 9 |
A99 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01-07-2019 | 1 |
M8 | 12 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 01-07-2019 | 35 |
M74 (A74M) | 7 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 24-06-2019 | 35 |
M73 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 5 |
M77 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 9 |
M80 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12-06-2019 | 16 |
M823 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19-06-2019 | 0 |
M876 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12-06-2019 | 4 |
M898 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02-07-2019 | 0 |
M9 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12-06-2019 | 16 |
M90 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 26-05-2019 | 15 |
Total | 274 | 38 | 271 | 49 | 103 | 50 | 785 | |
*A956 is Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route. No information is currently available for this trunk road.
Please note that the information provided is based on the current figures available. The following are potential reasons for an accident not appearing on our system:
• Transport Scotland only holds accident information which is provided to us by Police Scotland.
• Transport Scotland does not hold information relating to damage only accidents (i.e. not involving an injury).
• Transport Scotland only holds accident information for the trunk road network.
• The accident information Transport Scotland holds is subject to change. E.g. we receive later returns from Police Scotland, who are responsible for recording details of injury accidents.
• Annual Scottish accident figures are published by Transport Scotland on a yearly basis and can be found by entering Reported Road Casualties Scotland into your search engine.