Number of accidents/RTC's reported on the A78 junction with Main Street Inverkip since 2013: EIR release

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The number of accidents/RTC's reported on the A78 junction with Main Street Inverkip over the last 5 years and 10 years.

You clarified on 21 June, sending an image, of the correct junction for your request.

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.

Response

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government 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. This is because we only have access to accident data up to 6 April 2023.

Please see Annex A to this response, accident data for the location requested.

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Annex A - 202300362170

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