Organisation: Transport Scotland
Date uploaded: 28th February 2013
Date published/launched: June 2012
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.
There were a total of 12,763 road casualties reported in 2011, (575 or 4% fewer than
2010), the lowest figure recorded.
Of these, there were:
• 186 fatalities: 22 (11%) fewer than 2010
• 1,873 seriously injured: 95 (5%) less than 2010
• 10,704 slightly injured: 458 (4%) fewer than 2010.
In 2011 there were 1,315 child casualties reported, 63 (5%) fewer than in 2010. This
included seven fatalities, of which five were passengers in cars. This is an increase of three from last year but conclusions on trend cannot be made from a single year’s data as the numbers are small and fluctuate from year to year.
Male road casualties fell by 3% (to 7,293 in 2011), with fatalities falling by 5% (to 139). Female road casualties fell by 6% (to 5,463) with fatalities falling by 24% (to 47). 18% (2,239) of all casualties were aged 16–22, of which 1,273 were male (10% of all casualties) and 1,032 were female (8% of all casualties).
For more information contact:
Andrew Knight
T: 0131 244 7256