A96 road collision data: EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
Please could you tell me how many collisions have occurred between Aberdeen and Huntly, broken down by year to the current date, over the last four years? For this, could you tell me how many people have been injured in these?
Please could you also tell me how many collisions have occurred between Huntly and Inverness, broken down by year to the current date, over the last four years? For this, could you tell me how many people have been injured in these?
Response
As the information you have requested is 'environmental information' for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
Please see Annex A to this response for details of collisions and number of injuries that have occurred between Aberdeen and Huntly, broken down by year, over the last four years until the date of your request.
Please see Annex B to this response for details of collisions and number of injuries that have occurred between Huntly and Inverness, broken down by year, over the last four years until the date of your request.
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