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ROAD ACCIDENTS SCOTLAND 1999

ERRORS IN THE PREVIOUS EDITION

We apologise for the following errors, which we subsequently found in the statistics published in the previous edition:

Table 4, page 35: In part (c) of the table, the 1992-95 average for the road network following the April 1996 changes for the number of fatal accidents on all roads was wrongly shown as 367 - the correct figure is 366.

Table 5, page 37: In part (b) of the table, the percentages above/below the Scottish average for "Fatal" "All motorway" for Tayside, Fife and Dumfries & Galloway were wrongly shown as "n/a": the correct values should have been "-100".

Page 46: the notes stated that the estimated number of "damage only" accidents was about 6 times the number of injury accidents. This statement was based on work done by DETR several years ago. However, DETR had since revised its estimates: since 1995, it has estimated that there are about 14 "damage only" accidents for every injury accident.

Tables 13 and 14, page 47: because an out-of-date factor was used to estimate the numbers of "damage only" accidents (see above), incorrect figures appeared in the final column of Table 13 (the average cost per accident for all accidents) and in the final two columns of Table 14 (the total estimated costs for, first, "damage only" accidents and, second, all accidents). Corrected figures are not provided in this edition, because the figures published in the previous edition were at 1998 prices: they have therefore been superseded by the figures at 1999 prices which are published in this edition.

Table 39, page 96: In the data for the "Adult" part of the chart labelled 'Crossing road elsewhere: by type of road', the value of 747 for 'LA minor roads built-up' was omitted. As a result, the "Adult" part of the chart had only four bars, compared with five for the "Child" part of the chart. The remaining bars expanded along the Y-axis, so it was not obvious that a bar was missing.

We regret any problems or inconveniences caused by these errors.

As mentioned in the Introduction, the statistics given here for 1998 and earlier years may differ slightly from the previously published figures for those years, due to (e.g.) Police Forces submitting late returns, revisions to returns which had been made earlier. However, such changes are not regarded as "corrections" to "errors" in the previous edition, because the tables and charts in the previous edition had been prepared correctly from the underlying data as they stood at that time.

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