Publication - FOI/EIR release

Transport Scotland - Number of incidents involving abuse or near miss collisions in relation to road workers on trunk roads: EIR release

Published: 21 July 2026
Topic: Public sector, Transport
FOI reference: EIR/202600518285
Date received: 27 May 2026
Date responded: 12 June 2026

Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.

Information requested

The number of incidents involving abuse, threats, or near‑miss collisions involving roadworkers on trunk roads for each of the last five years.

Please include:

date
location
type of incident
whether police were notified • any injuries recorded.

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's A-F which detail the number of incidents involving abuse, threats, or near‑miss collisions affecting road workers on trunk roads over the past five years, broken down by region.

An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party (names and number plates) and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exception is not subject to the 'public interest test', so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception.

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