Statistics for A83 Accidents and incidents: FOI release

Information requested

1. How many road traffic accidents there were on the A83 between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2024, delineated by calendar year.

2. How many fatal incidents there were on the A83 between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2024, delineated by calendar year.

3. How many injury-causing incidents there were on the A83 between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2024, delineated by calendar year.

Response

To aid with my response I have retained the numbering from your request above.

1. Transport Scotland does not have some of the information you have asked for. This is because we do not hold information on all road traffic accidents. We only hold information on accidents that have resulted in injuries (including fatalities). Information that we do hold will be provided in response to questions 2 and 3.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that Transport Scotland does not have some of the information you have requested.

2. The following fatal accidents occurred on the A83 trunk road between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2024.

Year	Fatal Accidents
2019	0
2020	1
2021	1
2022	1
2023	2
2024*	0
Total	5

*2024 up to 1/1/24

3. The following personal injury accidents occurred on the A83 between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2024. Please note that the number of fatal accidents from Question 2 are also included in the figures in the following table.

Year	Personal Injury Accidents
2019	29
2020	17
2021	15
2022	12
2023	12
2024*	0
Total	85

*2024 up to 1/1/24

Please note that the information provided above 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 a 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 late 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.
• From summer 2019, Police Scotland introduced a new system for recording traffic collisions.Due to improved recording and categorisation processes, it is expected that there will be an increase in the number of casualties and accidents on Scottish roads that are classified as serious. This increase would not reflect an actual change in the severity of accidents occurring on Scottish roads, but would instead reflect more accurate recording.
• Statisticians within the Department for Transport have devised a method for adjusting the road casualty figures to ensure that they can be compared over time on a consistent basis. Transport Scotland’s Key Reported Road Casualties and Reported Road Casualties statistics publications will present both adjusted and unadjusted figures.

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