Table J Comparison of sources: NRS road deaths, hospitals emergency admissions & Police Stats 19 data

Table J Comparison of sources: NRS road deaths, hospitals emergency admissions & Police Stats 19 data

All ages Children4
Police Stats 19 statistics3 Police Stats 19 statistics3
reported road casualties reported road deaths KSI
NRS: deaths from road traffic accidents1 Hospital emergency admissions resulting from Road Traffic Accidents2 Killed Seriously injured Killed & Seriously Injured (KSI) NRS: difference NRS: % % of hospitals emergency admiss. Hospital emergency admissions resulting from Road Traffic Accidents2 Killed & Seriously Injured (KSI) % of hospitals emergency admiss.
1980 753 8,744 700 8,839 9,539 -53 93% 109%
1981 732 9,080 677 8,840 9,517 -55 92% 105%
1982 749 8,664 701 9,260 9,961 -48 94% 115%
1983 656 7,512 624 7,633 8,257 -32 95% 110%
1984 621 7,650 599 7,727 8,326 -22 96% 109%
1985 614 7,521 602 7,786 8,388 -12 98% 112%
1986 615 7,065 601 7,422 8,023 -14 98% 114%
1987 586 6,349 556 6,707 7,263 -30 95% 114%
1988 564 6,546 554 6,732 7,286 -10 98% 111%
1989 564 6,665 553 6,998 7,551 -11 98% 113%
1990 555 6,461 546 6,252 6,798 -9 98% 105%
1991 521 6,148 491 5,638 6,129 -30 94% 100%
1992 472 5,890 463 5,176 5,639 -9 98% 96%
1993 410 5,399 399 4,454 4,853 -11 97% 90%
1994 359 5,411 363 5,208 5,571 4 101% 103%
1995 427 5,321 409 4,930 5,339 -18 96% 100%
1996 367 5,106 357 4,041 4,398 -10 97% 86% 996 790 79%
1997 389 5,316 377 4,047 4,424 -12 97% 83% 1,116 745 67%
1998 390 5,289 385 4,072 4,457 -5 99% 84% 1,079 698 65%
1999 324 4,941 310 3,765 4,075 -14 96% 82% 1,012 625 62%
2000 343 4,904 326 3,568 3,894 -17 95% 79% 978 561 57%
2001 369 4,881 348 3,410 3,758 -21 94% 77% 893 544 61%
2002 321 4,700 304 3,229 3,533 -17 95% 75% 865 527 61%
2003 351 4,426 336 2,957 3,293 -15 96% 74% 776 432 56%
2004 326 4,373 308 2,766 3,074 -18 94% 70% 693 384 55%
2005 294 4,389 286 2,666 2,952 -8 97% 67% 696 368 53%
2006 327 4,304 314 2,635 2,949 -13 96% 69% 633 375 59%
2007 295 3,902 281 2,385 2,666 -14 95% 68% 452 278 62%
2008 274 3,656 270 2,575 2,845 -4 99% 78% 366 299 82%
2009 241 216 2,287 2,503 -25 90% 258
2010 219 208 1,969 2,177 -11 95% 227
2011 204 185 1,880 2,065 -19 91% 210
2012 189 178 1,980 2,158
2013 185 172 1,672 1,844
2014 212
Change from 2002 to 2012
-41% -41% -39% -39% -100%
Overall averages
1980 - 2008 96% 93%
1980 - 1995 96% 107%
1996 - 2008 96% 76% 63%

Deaths caused by road transport accidents including off road and car parks from 2000 (NRS Web site Table 6.10 Deaths from road transport accidents)

Financial years from 1996 onwards (www.isdscotland.org/unintentional_injuries). Figures prior to 1996 raken from Table 1 of TRL report 420 Linkage of STATS19

and Scottish hospital in-patient data

Figures on the same basis as the rest of this publication

Children covers ages 0-15 inclusive in the Police (Stats 19) statistics, and ages 0-14 inclusive in the hospitals emergency admissions figures

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