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
NRS: deaths from road traffic collisions1 Hospital emergency admissions resulting from Road Traffic Collisions2 Police Stats 19 statistics3 Hospital emergency admissions resulting from Road Traffic Collisions2 Police Stats 19 statistics3
reported road casualties reported road deaths KSI
Killed Seriously injured Killed & Seriously Injured (KSI) NRS: difference NRS: % % of hospitals emergency admiss. 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%

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

2 Financial years from 1996 onwards (www.isdscotland.org/unintentional_injuries). Figures prior to 1996 taken from Table 1 of TRL report 420 Linkage of STATS19 and Scottish hospital in-patient data

3 Figures on the same basis as the rest of this publication

4 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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