To ask the Scottish Executive how many road traffic accidents there were on the B758 in each of the last five years and, of these, how many resulted in fatalities and serious injuries, broken down by local authority area.
Data about injury road accidentsare collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the Stats19 statistical report form. These returns cover only road accidents in which oneor more people were injured and which become known to the police. The returns donot cover “damage only” accidents or accidents of which the police are unaware becausethey were not reported by the public.
The table below gives the totalnumber of reported injury road accidents which were identified in the Stats 19 returnsas occurring on the B758 between 2001 and 2005 and, of these, how many resultedin fatalities or serious injuries. All occurred within the area of South LanarkshireCouncil. Figures for 2006 should become available in June.
It should be noted that the statisticsgiven as follows are based upon the data which are held in the central statisticaldatabase and which were collected by the police at the time of the accident andsubsequently reported to the Executive. They may differ from any figures which thelocal authority would provide now, because they do not take account of any subsequentchanges or corrections that local authorities may have made to the statistical information,for use at local level, about the location of each accident, based upon their knowledgeof the roads and areas concerned.
Reported Injury RoadAccidents Occurring on the B758, by Severity
Accident Severity | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
Fatal or serious | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
All severities | 13 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 7 |