A90 road traffic collision data: EIR release

Information requested

Please can you tell me how many collisions there have been on the A90 north of Ellon between Peterhead since 2022, broken down by year.

Separately, can you tell me how many people have been injuries there have been, broken down by fatal, serious and slight, for the same timeframe, broken down by year.

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.

Under regulation 6(1)(b) of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004, a Scottish public authority is not required to make environmental information available in response to a request if the information is already publicly available and easily accessible to the applicant in another form or format.

Some of the information you have requested is already publicly available and can be accessed at the following location: Number of road traffic accidents on the A90: FOI release - gov.scot If you are
unable to access the information online, please contact us and we will consider providing the information in an alternative format.

Under the terms of the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held), Transport Scotland is not required to provide information which it does not have. Transport Scotland does not have the information you have requested because the 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.

This exception 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 exception. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception. While we recognise that there may be some public interest in information about the number of collisions on the A90 north of Ellon between Peterhead since 2022, broken down by year, clearly we cannot provide information which we do not hold. The records we hold relate to collisions where someone is injured or killed, and which become known to Police Scotland.

Please see Annex A to this response for information relating to accidents (Table 1) and casualties (Table 2) for the period 01/01/2024 until 06/03/2026.

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FOI 202600510767 - Information Released - Annex A

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