Appendix F

Frequency of use of values of most STATS 19 variables: 2012

This annex lists most of the "Stats 19" variables, showing the values which were used in the returns for the latest year and the number of times each was used. Variables such as "grid co-ordinates" and "road number" are not listed, because they have many possible values.

Police Force		Speed Limit		Road Type
Northern	593	20	157	Roundabout	490
Grampian	1,034	30	5,506	One way street	223
Tayside	741	40	480	Dual carriageway	1,507
Fife	421	50	309	Single carriageway	7,327
Lothian & Borders	2,190	60	2,696	Slip road	105
Central	567	70	599	Unknown	95
Strathclyde	3,883
Dumfries & Galloway	318	Junction Control		Pedestrian Crossing - Physical Facilities
		Not at or near junction	4,864	None within 50m	7,986
Month		Authorised person	20	Zebra crossing	113
January	846	Automatic traffic signal	951	Pelican, puffin or similar	690
February	750	Stop sign	89	Pedestrian phase at lights	809
March	761	Give way or uncontrolled	3,813	Footbridge or subway	13
April	692	Unknown	10	Central refuge	135
May	887			Unknown	1
June	811	Weather Conditions
July	742	Fine	7,017	Junction Detail
August	868	Raining	1,783	Not at or within 20 metres	4,863
September	880	Snowing	86	Roundabout	716
October	837	Fine high winds	115	Mini Roundabout	71
November	905	Raining high winds	257	T or staggered junction	2,191
December	768	Snowing high winds	28	Slip Road	188
		Fog mist	60	Crossroads	774
Severity of Accident		Other	278	Multiple junction	204
Fatal	160	Unknown	123	Private drive	162
Serious	1,730			Other junction	577
Slight	7,857	First road class
		Motorway	348	Road Surface Conditions
Local Authority		A(m)	32	Dry	5,373
Aberdeen City	378	A	4,262	Wet or damp	3,813
Aberdeenshire	530	B	1,320	Snow	88
Angus	202	C	363	Frost or ice	433
Argyll & Bute	211	Unclassified	3,422	Flood over 3cm deep	37
Clackmannanshire	84
Dumfries & Galloway	318	Second road class		Special Conditions at site
Dundee City	226	No second road class	4,976	None	9,447
East Ayrshire	173	Motorway	70	Automatic traffic signal out	33
East Dunbartonshire	114	A(m)	2	Automat traffic sig part defective	9
East Lothian	169	A	680	Road sign defective or obscured	20
East Renfrewshire	97	B	372	Roadworks	105
Edinburgh, City of	1,163	C	187	Road surface defective	35
Eilean Siar	28	Unclassified	3,459	Oil or diesel	59
Falkirk	269			Mud	38
Fife	421	Light Conditions
Glasgow City	1,310	Daylight street lights present	7,140	Carriageway hazards
Midlothian	215	Dknss:lights present lit	1,730	None	9,453
Moray	126	Dknss:lights present unlit	70	Veh load in cgwy	14
North Ayrshire	205	Dknss: no lights	782	Other object in cgwy	126
North Lanarkshire	512	Dknss: lights unknown	25	Involved prev accdnt	27
Orkney Islands	22			Ped in cgwy not inj	40
Perth & Kinross	313	Pedestrian Crossing - Human Control		Animal in cgwy-not horse	85
Renfrewshire	337	None within 50 metres	9,642
Scottish Borders	263	School crossing patrol	46	Did a police officer attend?
Shetland Islands	30	Other authorised person	59	Yes	8,182
South Ayrshire	201			No-accident reported over counter	1,553
South Lanarkshire	454
Stirling	214			Contributory Factors
West Dunbartonshire	133			Please see the section on the
West Lothian	380			Contributory Factors

Reported vehicle variables

Police Force		Manoeuvres		Vehicle leaving carriageway
Northern	929	Reversing	285	Unknown	3
Grampian	1,655	Parked	633	Did not leave c'way	13,614
Tayside	1,240	Waiting to go ahead/held up	988	Left c'way nearside	1,483
Fife	738	Slowing/stopping	1,124	Left c'way nearside rebound	200
Lothian & Borders	3,737	Moving off	678	Left c'way ahead junction	72
Central	977	U turn	126	Left c'way offside onto central reservation	75
Strathclyde	6,695	Turning left	416	Left c'way offside onto central res & rebound	48
Dumfries & Galloway	514	Waiting to turn left	97	Left c'way offside and crossed central res	23
		Turning right	1,254	Left c'way offside	844
Month		Waiting to turn right	261	Left c'way offside and rebounded	123
January	1,385	Changing lane left	152
February	1,255	Changing lane rght	117	Hit object off carriageway
March	1,303	Overtaking moving vehicle offside	284	Unknown	2
April	1,194	Overtaking stationery vehicle offside	132	None	14,387
May	1,511	Overtaking nearside	90	Road sign traffic signal	166
June	1,419	Ahead left hand bend	965	Lamp post	151
July	1,242	Ahead right hand bend	1,000	Telegraph pole electricity pole	53
August	1,495	Ahead other	7,881	Tree	251
September	1,490			Bus stop bus shelter	12
October	1,448	Other vehicle hit		Central crash barrier	133
November	1,498	Unknown	510	Nearside or offside crash barrier	192
December	1,245	0	5,170	Submerged in water	2
		1	4,745	Entered ditch	221
Breath test		2	5,427	Other permanent object	905
Not applicable	134	3	492	Wall or fence	9
Positive	264	4	106
Negative	9,105	5	23	First point of impact
Not requested	3,790	6	6	Unknown	2
Refused to provide	27	7	2	None	989
Driver not contacted	2,373	8	1	Front	8,113
Not provided (medical)	792	9	1	Back	2,787
		10	1	Offside	2,378
Sex of driver		11	1	Nrside	2,216
Male	10,645
Female	5,111	Junction location of vehicle		Towing and Articulation
Not traced	726	Unknown	1	No towing or articulation	16,220
		Not at or within 20 metres	7,678	Articulated vehicle	157
Vehicle Reference Number		Approach junction or wait/park approach	4,119	Double or multiple trailer	7
1	9,747	Cleared junction or wait/park at exit	951	Caravan	9
2	5,662	Leaving roundabout	283	Single trailer	69
3	810	Entering roundabout	466	Other tow	21
4	193	Leaving main road	241
5	47	Entering main road	451	Hit and run
6	15	Entering from slip rd	108	Other	15,525
7	5	Mid-junction on roundabout/main road	2,187	Hit run	659
8	2			Non-stop vehicle, not hit	300
9	1	Skidding and overturning
10	1	None	13,919	Vehicle location at time of acc - Lane
11	1	Skidding	1,566	Unknown	2
12	1	Skid overtd	536	On main carriageway	15,995
		Jacknifed	8	Bus lane	118
Type of Vehicle		Jacknifed overturned	3	Busway	40
Pedal cycle	930	Overturned	452	Cycle lane	31
Moped	86			Cycleway	7
Motor cycle to 125cc	218	Hit object in carriageway		On lay-by hard shldr	67
Motor cycle over 125cc	194	Unknown	6	Entering lay-by hard shldr	19
Motor cycle over 500cc	390	None	15,684	Leaving lay-by hard shldr	28
Taxi	333	Prev accident	10	Footway	172
Car	12,182	Road works	12
Minibus (8-16 pass)	54	Parked vehicle	326	Journey Purpose of driver/rider
Bus coach (17 or more pass)	517	Bridge roof	2	Journey part of work	2,842
Ridden horse	7	Bridge side	17	Commuting to/from work	2,239
Agricultural vehicle	67	Bollard refuge	46	Taking pupil to/from school	146
Van/Goods to 3.5t mgw	803	Open door vehicle	28	Pupil riding to/from school	40
Goods 3.5t to 7.5t mgw	139	Central island roundabout	15	Other	11,205
Goods 7.5t mgw and over	314	Kerb	214	Not known	10
Other vehicle	243	Other object	82
Motorcycle unknown cc	1	Animal excluding ridden horse	43	Foreign registered vehicle
Goods vehicle unknown wgt	3			Not foreign reg veh	15,849
				Foreign reg LH drive	57
				Foreign reg RH drive	37
				Foreign reg 2 wheeler	29
				Other/not known	2

Vehicle movement from/to		Age of driver		Age of driver
Unknown	22	Unknown	425	51	297
Parked	658	0	5	52	286
U turn from north	30	1	2	53	251
North to north east	10	2	0	54	253
North to east	202	3	1	55	253
North to south east	22	4	1	56	238
North to south	2,760	5	6	57	210
North to south west	40	6	12	58	178
North to west	373	7	13	59	179
North to north west	17	8	10	60	168
North east to north	4	9	10	61	143
U turn from north east	3	10	12	62	149
North east to east	7	11	23	63	143
North east to south east	23	12	11	64	152
North east to south	25	13	11	65	140
North east to south west	368	14	9	66	96
North east to west	21	15	14	67	82
North east to north west	41	16	53	68	97
East to north	354	17	205	69	93
East to north east	10	18	347	70	95
U turn from east	41	19	365	71	72
East to south east	14	20	410	72	64
East to south	135	21	362	73	61
East to south west	23	22	388	74	50
East to west	2,968	23	343	75	56
East to north west	29	24	329	76	52
South east to north	27	25	386	77	53
South east to north east	43	26	343	78	46
South east to east	10	27	273	79	53
U turn from south east	3	28	326	80	44
South east to south	4	29	306	81	36
South east to south west	13	30	547	82	34
South east to west	21	31	316	83	42
South east to north west	387	32	300	84	20
South to north	2,662	33	265	85	13
South to north east	56	34	279	86	11
South to east	392	35	441	87	16
South to south east	7	36	263	88	11
U turn from south	36	37	264	89	11
South to south west	10	38	281	90	4
South to west	156	39	313	91	7
South to north west	31	40	489	92	5
South west to north	28	41	349	96	2
South west to north east	403	42	341	97	1
South west to east	26	43	309
South west to south east	41	44	319
South west to south	7	45	410
U turn from south west	3	46	312
South west to west	4	47	343
South west to north west	21	48	298
West to north	119	49	358
West to north east	21	50	420
West to east	2,889
West to south east	27
West to south	312
West to south west	11
U turn from west	23
West to north west	5
North west to north	3
North west to north east	14
North west to east	14
North west to south east	375
North west to south	31
North west to south west	40
North west to west	6
U turn from north west	4

Reported casualty variables

Police Force		Pedestrian direction
Northern	893	Not pedestrian	10,707
Grampian	1,294	Pedestrian standing still	207
Tayside	918	Heading North	406
Fife	549	Heading North East	33
Lothian & Borders	2,786	Heading East	378
Central	731	Heading South East	29
Strathclyde	5,079	Heading South	377
Dumfries & Galloway	426	Heading South West	36
		Heading West	361
Month		Heading North West	42
January	1,069	Unknown	100
February	980
March	955	Casualty Class
April	932	Driver or rider	7,445
May	1,183	Passenger - vehicle/pillion	3,262
June	1,109	Pedestrian	1,969
July	989
August	1,152	Pedestrian location
September	1,123	Not pedestrian	10,708
October	1,053	In carriageway, crossing pedestrian crossing	233
November	1,138	In carriageway, crossing in zig zag crossing approach	18
December	993	In carriageway, crossing in zig zag crossing exit	2
		In carriageway crossing elsewhere within 50 metres	206
Sex of casualty		In carriageway crossing elsewhere	949
Unknown	3	Footway or verge	151
Male	7,198	On refuge, central island or central reservation	24
Female	5,472	Centre carriageway not refuge, central island or reservation	67
		In carriageway not crossing	228
Road user		Unknown other	90
Pedestrian	1,969
Pedal cycle	901	Pedestrian movement
Motor cycle	865	Not pedestrian	10,707
Car	7,647	Crossing driver nearside	669
Taxi	165	Crossing driver nearside mskd	179
Minibus	69	Crossing driver offside	481
Bus/Coach	439	Crossing driver offside masked	120
Light goods vehicle	352	In carriageway stationary not crossing	131
Heavy goods vehicle	140	In carriageway stationary not crossing masked	17
Other	129	Walking in carriageway facing traffic	29
		Walking in carriageway back to traffic	44
Severity of casualty		Unknown	299
Killed	174
Serious	1,974	Car passenger
Slight	10,528	Not car passenger	9,954
		Front seat car passenger	1,791
Bus or coach passenger		Rear seat car passenger	929
Not psv passenger	12,245
Boarding	19	Pedestrian injured in the course of 'on the road' work
Alighting	21	Not a pedestrian	10,725
Standing passenger	95	No	1,908
Seated passenger	296	Yes	24
		Not known	19
School pupil casualty
All other casualties	12,483
Pupil to/from school	193

Age of casualty		Age of casualty		Casualty Reference Number
Unknown	5	51	181	1	9,747
0	11	52	178	2	1,940
1	29	53	172	3	572
2	42	54	178	4	204
3	46	55	152	5	91
4	53	56	149	6	32
5	60	57	127	7	16
6	75	58	124	8	11
7	72	59	115	9	7
8	78	60	106	10	7
9	67	61	96	11	5
10	91	62	102	12	4
11	97	63	102	13	3
12	105	64	86	14	2
13	105	65	90	15	2
14	109	66	75	16	2
15	124	67	56	17	2
16	170	68	79	18	2
17	294	69	72	19	2
18	398	70	84	20	2
19	355	71	67	21	2
20	387	72	57	22	2
21	351	73	61	23	2
22	335	74	47	24	2
23	291	75	66	25	2
24	288	76	55	26	1
25	300	77	66	27	1
26	270	78	47	28	1
27	205	79	61	29	1
28	229	80	50	30	1
29	222	81	49	31	1
30	270	82	39	32	1
31	225	83	46	33	1
32	197	84	33	34	1
33	166	85	31	35	1
34	177	86	25	36	1
35	178	87	20	37	1
36	187	88	16	38	1
37	155	89	14	Vehicle Reference Number
38	166	90	5	1	7,538
39	203	91	7	2	4,806
40	230	92	9	3	277
41	220	93	1	4	43
42	210	94	2	5	8
43	210	95	1	6	1
44	211	96	3	7	3
45	221	97	1
46	163	98	4
47	212	99	1
48	185
49	211
50	207