Priority Focus Areas: Indicators
Road Safety Framework 2019 - Annual Report
Priority Focus Areas: Indicators
A summary of the Reported Road Casualties statistics '2018 for each Outcome is provided below and is a means of monitoring progress towards individual outcomes and the downward trend towards Framework 2020 casualty reduction targets.
Title: Overarching Speed Outcome
Description: Reduce the number of cyclist casualties through good design, appropriate speed management, high awareness of and compliance with road traffic laws and safe practices by all road users.
Overarching Speed Outcome:
Increase the proportion of vehicles travelling at appropriate speeds on Scotland’s roads to support reducing road casualty numbers.
Indicators:
- The number of injury accidents where at least one of the two “speed” contributory factors are recorded.
- Positive behavioural or attitudinal trends in drivers including driving at appropriate speeds and awareness and
- understanding of speed limits and what they mean.
- Supplementary intel’ or information
"Penalties For Getting Caught For Driving Offences Like Speeding and Using a Mobile Phone Aren’t Enough to Stop Me Doing It"
Between July 2013 and November 2019, there was an overall increase of 7 percentage points in the proportion of drivers disagreeing strongly and a decrease of 11 percentage points in the proportion of drivers agreeing strongly that penalties for offences like speed weren’t enough to stop them doing it.
Speeding Behaviours
Since 2012, reported speeding behaviours have remained mostly unchanged, though a downward trend is more apparent since July 2015.
(More pronounced in lower speed limit areas, e.g. towns and cities )
Title: Overarching Motorcyclists Outcome
Description: Improve the safety of motorcycling by reducing levels of motor cycle injury accidents on the road network to support reducing road casualty numbers.
Overarching Motorcyclists Outcome:
Improve the safety of motorcycling by reducing levels of motor cycle injury accidents on the road network to support reducing road casualty numbers
Indicators:
- Number of motorcyclists involved in injury accidents, including those where vehicles hit objects off the carriageway
- Supplementary intel’ or information
Motorcycle traffic has tended to decrease for the past ten years, while traffic overall has increased
Accounted for
Motorcycle Trends
There is a general trend evident over the last ten years in the declining number of slight motorcycle accidents. However, in recent years there has been little improvement in the number of fatal or serious casualties. Due to the introduction of CRaSH. The number of slight and serious casualties for 2019 cannot be directly compared to previous years number of fatal motorcycle accidents and a similar improvement is seen for serious and slight casualty numbers.
Title: Overarching Pre-drivers Outcome
Description: Improve knowledge, positive attitudes and safer behaviours of individuals in relation to road safety before they start driving.
Overarching Pre-drivers Outcome:
Improve knowledge, positive attitudes and safer behaviours of individuals in relation to road safety before they start driving.
Indicators:
- Number of secondary school or college pupils receiving interactive pre-driver educational intervention
- Number of people completing the Scottish Qualifications Authority safe road user award or other accredited assessment or training
- Supplementary intel’ or information
Indicator to follow: Pre-driver Intervention Evaluation findings
Pupils receiving interactive pre-driver educational intervention
- 66 requests for data were made to Directors of Education and colleges, 19 have responded across 16 local authority areas.
- An estimated 18,273 pupils received interactive educational interventions in 2016, although the actual likely to be much higher.
- The most common intervention is ‘Safe Drive, Stay Alive’ which is used across 7 local authorities.
- Pupil received interventions in 2016 ranged greatly across local authority area between 106 and 8,527.
Pre Driver
It is difficult to recommend a clear narrative interpretation of this indicator as the small underlying numbers can mean large percentage increases only relate to small changes in overall numbers of participants. There is additional need for caution in interpretation due to the relatively recent introduction of the qualification.
Title: Overarching 17 to 25 Outcome
Description: Increase safer driving behaviours by young drivers after they pass their test.
Overarching 17 to 25 Outcome:
Increase safer driving behaviours by young drivers after they pass their test.
Indicators:
- The proportion of drivers aged 17-25 involved in injury accidents
- Number of risk behaviours undertaken by drivers aged 17 to 25 whilst driving in the preceding 12 months.
- Supplementary intel’ or information
In 2018, the number of car driver casualties between the ages of 17 and 25 was down by 62% on the baseline period (2004-2008 average). However, when considering the proportion of car driver casualties accounted for by those aged 17-25, the reduction on the baseline has been less pronounced (6.5%) and younger drivers now constituted under a fifth of all driver casualties in 2017 (down from over a quarter during the baseline period).
| 2004-2008 average | 2018 | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of car driver casualties 17-25 | 403 | 152 | 2,513 (-62%) |
| Percentage of all car driver casualties 17-25 | 24.7% | 18.2% | 6.5% |
Title: Overarching Older Drivers Outcome
Description: Increase awareness and knowledge capability of older drivers and their families to make informed choices about safe driving.
Overarching Older Drivers Outcome:
Increase awareness and knowledge capability of older drivers and their families to make informed choices about safe driving.
Indicators:
- The proportion and number of drivers aged 65 and older involved in injury accidents
- Number of risk behaviours undertaken by drivers aged 65 and older whilst driving in the preceding 12 months
- Supplementary intel’ or information
In 2018, the number of car driver casualties over the age of 60 was down by 20% on the 2004-2008 average. However, the proportion of all car driver casualties accounted for by the over 60s compared to the 2004-08 baseline increased by 6.2% over the same period.
| Over 60-year olds | 2004-2008 average | 2018 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of car driver casualties | 182 | 145 | -370 (-20%) |
| Percentage of all car driver casualties | 11.2% | 17.4% | +6.2% |
Title: Overarching Cyclists Outcome
Description: Reduce the number of cyclist casualties through good design, appropriate speed management, high awareness of and compliance with road traffic laws and safe practices by all road users.
Overarching Cyclists Outcome:
Reduce the number of cyclist casualties through good design, appropriate speed management, high awareness of and compliance with road traffic laws and safe practices by all road users.
Cyclists Casualties
The number of cyclists seriously injured is currently notably higher than in 2005.
There has been a decrease in casualties of all severities for cyclists in built up areas compared with 2005 (particularly since 2014). The number of serious injuries for 2019 cannot be directly compared to previous years due to changes in which Police Scotland report on accident severity.
Indicators:
- Number of cyclists involved in injury accidents across both the built-up and non-builtup road network.
- Number of cyclists and all other road users displaying positive attitudes towards each other
- Number of risk and distraction behaviours undertaken by drivers whilst driving in the preceding 12 months
- Supplementary intel’ or information
Title: Overarching Pedestrians Outcome
Description: Reduce the number of pedestrian casualties through good design, appropriate speed management, high awareness of and compliance with road traffic laws and safe practices by all road users.
Overarching Pedestrians Outcome:
Reduce the number of pedestrian casualties through good design, appropriate speed management, high awareness of and compliance with road traffic laws and safe practices by all road users.
Pedestrian casualties have seen a notable decline in recent years, particularly in built-up areas. The number of serious injuries for 2019 cannot be directly compared to previous years due to changes in which Police Scotland report on accident severity.
Indicators:
- Number of pedestrians involved in injury accidents across both the built-up and non-built-up road network
- Number of risk and distraction behaviours undertaken by drivers whilst driving in the preceding 12 months
- Supplementary intel’ or information
There is indication of a downward trend in lower speed limit areas since July 2015, most notably amongst those reporting driving at 36 mph in a 30 mph speed limit are reducing 12% from 53% in July 2015 to 41% in August 2018