Transport Scotland – Key Reported Road Casualty Statistics 2011

This bulletin presents provisional statistics of reported injury road accidents (i.e. road accidents reported to the police in which one or more people were killed or injured) in Scotland in 2011. Final figures will be published in October 2012.

The provisional figures show that seven under-16s were killed on the roads in 2011, an increase from the four deaths in 2010. Five of the children were passengers in cars and two were pedestrians. The number of children seriously injured in reported road accidents fell from 223 to 203. The overall number of child casualties (killed, seriously injured or slightly injured) fell from 1,378 to 1,315.

Overall, the number of people killed and injured in road accidents in Scotland fell between 2010 and 2011. There were 186 road deaths in total during 2011, 22 (11%) fewer than in 2010. There were 1,873 seriously injured casualties, 95 (5%) fewer than in 2010. And 10,704 people were slightly injured, 458 (4%) fewer than in 2010.

Seven cyclists were killed in 2011 – the same as in 2010 – while the number of seriously injured cyclists rose by 13% from 138 to 156. The overall number of cyclist casualties (killed, seriously injured or slightly injured) rose by 6% from 781 to 824.

There was also a rise in the number of pedestrians injured but a reduction in the number of pedestrians killed.