Key Reported Road Casualties Scotland 2014

3. Reported numbers of Accidents (Table 1)

3.1 Table 1 shows the downward trend of injury road accidents recorded by the police. In 2014, there were 8,789 accidents in which someone was killed or injured, 2 per cent fewer than in 2013 and the lowest number since records began. There were 178 fatal accidents in 2014, nineteen (12%) more than in 2013. In 2014, there were 1,482 serious injury accidents - an increase of 52 (4%) on 2013; and 7,129 slight injury accidents reported in 2014, 4 per cent (272) fewer than 2013.

Table 1: Injury Road Accidents by Severity, 1970 - 2014
Fatal Serious Fatal
and
Serious		 Slight All
Severities
1970 758 7,860 8,618 13,515 22,133
1975 699 6,912 7,611 13,041 20,652
1980 644 7,218 7,862 13,926 21,788
1985 550 6,507 7,057 13,587 20,644
1990 491 5,237 5,728 14,443 20,171
1995 361 4,071 4,432 12,102 16,534
1996 316 3,315 3,631 12,442 16,073
1997 340 3,312 3,652 12,994 16,646
1998 339 3,318 3,657 12,862 16,519
1999 285 3,209 3,494 11,921 15,415
2000 297 3,007 3,304 11,828 15,132
2001 309 2,840 3,149 11,575 14,724
2002 274 2,684 2,958 11,385 14,343
2003 301 2,495 2,796 11,121 13,917
2004 283 2,331 2,614 11,305 13,919
2005 264 2,252 2,516 10,922 13,438
2006 293 2,257 2,550 10,560 13,110
2007 255 2,049 2,304 10,203 12,507
2008 245 2,242 2,487 9,672 12,159
2009 196 1,998 2,194 9,362 11,556
2010 189 1,713 1,902 8,393 10,295
2011 175 1,676 1,851 8,136 9,987
2012 164 1,734 1,898 7,888 9,786
2013 159 1,430 1,589 7,401 8,990
2014
prov.		 178 1,482 1,660 7,129 8,789