Road traffic fatality statistics: EIR release

Information requested

You asked for the following information:

“A simple statement of road fatalities, in 2023 and in 2024 on:

1. The A9 from (but not including) the Keir Roundabout to Inverness (ie. the part of the A9 covered by average speed cameras scheme)

2. The A90 from Emmock Roundabout to Stonehaven (ie. the part of the A90 covered by average speed cameras).

In addition, I would be grateful for a simple statement of the number road fatalities in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 on the:

3. The A82 from Inverness to Fort William

4. The A82 from Fort William to Glasgow.”

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.

To aid my response I have repeated the questions below:

A simple statement of road fatalities in 2023 and in 2024 on:

1. The A9 from (but not including) the Keir Roundabout to Inverness (i.e. the part of the A9 covered by average speed cameras scheme)

Year	Fatal Accidents	Fatal Casualties
2023	3	3
2024	8	8

2. The A90 from Emmock Roundabout to Stonehaven (i.e. the part of the A90 covered by average speed cameras).

Year	Fatal Accidents	Fatal Casualties
2023	0	0
2024	1	1

In addition, also under the FOI provisions, I would be grateful for a simple statement of the number road fatalities in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 on the:

1. The A82 from Inverness to Fort William

Year	Fatal Accidents	Fatal Casualties
2020	3	6
2021	2	2
2022	2	3
2023	0	0
2024	1	2

2. The A82 from Fort William to Glasgow

Year	Fatal Accidents	Fatal Casualties
2020	2	2
2021	3	3
2022	3	3
2023	3	3
2024	2	2

Date Extracted – 29/05/2025

Source: Transport Scotland Accident Manager Database

Please note that the information provided 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 an 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.

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