Transport Scotland - Total number of collisions on the A9 between Perth and Inverness: EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
The total number of collisions on the A9 between Perth and Inverness, broken into a table to reflect every financial year since 2021-22.
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.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Transport Scotland does not have some of the information you have requested. Therefore we are refusing your request under the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs.
Transport Scotland does not have the information you have asked for because records held by Transport Scotland relate only to collisions involving injuries or fatalities that have been reported to, and are known by, Police Scotland. As such, we do not hold records of collisions that resulted in damage only.
Please see Annex A to this response for details of the total number of personal injury collisions on the A9 from Perth to Inverness (from Inveralmond Roundabout to Longman Roundabout not including these roundabouts) broken into a table to reflect every financial year since 2021-22 up to 4/2/26.
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