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Road Safety: Scotland Accident Circumstances 2005-2012

Data on road traffic accident that caused personal injury throughout Scotland from 2005 to 2012. Data for any of the 32 unitary authorities can be obtained by using the code for the particular Local Authority (“District” or “Highway”). Two new fields derived from “date” were added – “Month” and “Calendar Year”.


Accidents are only included if they involve a casualty and were reported to the police. Accident severity is rated by the most highly injured casualty. The data is collected according to the [STATS19] (http://www.stats19.org.uk/html/accident_forms.html) specification. The data is held in three separate datasets: accidents; casualties; vehicles. The three datasets have a common accident index.

The Accidents dataset describes: severity of the accident; the geographical location (by grid points, local authority area); temporal aspects (time, day, date); changeable conditions (lighting, weather); and aspects of road structure (speed limit, junction type, hazards, amongst others). It also includes the number of casualties and the number of vehicles involved in each accident.

Data extracted 2013-12-03 from [data.gov.uk](http://data.gov.uk)

Data supplied by [Department for Transport]( https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport/about) .Please note that this data may be different from Scottish Government as DfT have a cut-off date to close database unlike the Scottish Government.

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