A96 road traffic collision statistics: FOI release

Information requested

You asked:

"Please could you tell me how many collisions there have been on the A96, broken down by year since 2023"

"Please could you tell me how many fatalities there have been, serious injuries and minor injuries on the A96, broken down by year, since 2023"

Response

1. You asked how many collisions there have been on the A96, broken down by year since 2023.

Since 2023, there have been 91 personal injury accidents on the A96 between Raigmore Interchange and Craibstone roundabout (not including roundabouts) as detailed in the table below.

Year	TOTAL
2023	45
2024	26
2025*	20
Total	91

** Accidents to 05/10/2025

2. You asked how many fatalities there have been, serious injuries and minor injuries on the A96, broken down by year, since 2023?

Fatal casualties, serious casualties and slight casualties are broken down by year in the below table.

Year	Fatal	Serious	Slight
2023	1	40	41
2024	5	16	15
2025*	6	13	12
Total	12	69	68
* Accidents to 05/10/2025

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.

• 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.
• 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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