Number of road traffic accidents on the A90: FOI release

Information requested

'Hello, please could you tell me the number of road traffic accidents on the A90 between Ellon and Peterhead in 2024 (up to the present date), 2023, 2022 and 2021?

Broken down by the same year:

Please could you tell me the number of road traffic accidents at the Toll of Birness junction?

Please could you tell me the number of road traffic accidents at the Cortes junction?'

Response

Please note, this response provides the same information as was contained in the response to Freedom of Information request reference 202400439100, which was issued yesterday. This response is being provided for completeness, as the two requests were logged as separate Freedom of Information requests.

The records we hold relate to collisions where someone is injured or killed, and which become known to Police Scotland.

The following tables provide information on collisions recorded as taking place in the locations you identified and are taken from Transport Scotland’s central database of recorded injury collisions and casualties on Scotland’s roads.
Please note that figures for 2024 are provisional as they are based on monthly returns received thus far from Police Scotland in 2024, with the most recent returns being received on 10th November 2024.

This may be an incomplete picture of casualties up to that date due to a slight lag between collisions occurring and records being processed and shared by Police Scotland. These figures are also subject to change due to subsequent corrections and late records.

For the purpose of these statistics:

• Cortes junction has been defined as the area bounded by the Eastings 400338 and 400520 and the Northings 859198 and 859486.
• Toll of Birness has been defined as the area bounded by the Eastings 400388 and 400685 and the Northings 834485 and 835148.
• The A90 between Ellon and Peterhead has been defined as the stretch of the A90 road bounded by the Northings 828662 and 848077.

Injury road collisions in the vicinity of the Cortes junction by severity 2021 to 2024
	Fatal	Serious	Slight	Total
2021	0	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0	0
2023	0	1	1	2
2024	0	0	0	0
Injury road collisions between Ellon and Peterhead by severity 2021 to 2024
	Fatal	Serious	Slight	Total
2021	1	3	3	7
2022	0	2	1	3
2023	0	1	1	2
2024	0	2	1	3
Injury road collisions in the vicinity of of the Toll of Birness by severity 2021 to 2024
	Fatal	Serious	Slight	Total
2021	0	1	0	1
2022	0	0	0	0
2023	0	1	0	1
2024	1	1	0	2

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