Deprivation

Adult road casualties in Glasgow by deprivation quintile

Click on graph to enlarge

Between 1999-2003 and 2015-2019, adult casualty rates across all five deprivation quintiles in Glasgow have decreased.  Since 2011-2015, the second most deprived category (quintile 2) has had the highest adult casualty rate.  The least deprived category (quintile 5) has consistently had the lowest rate.  In the most recent period (2015-2019), the casualty rate in the least deprived quintile was 41% lower than in the most deprived quintile.

The casualty rates recorded by the police, via Stats 19, are higher for Glasgow than the rate of hospital admissions (shown below).  This reflects the fact that road accident casualties admitted to hospital represent a subset of all road accident casualties.

Adult road traffic accident hospital admissions in Glasgow by deprivation quintile

Click on graph to enlarge

In Glasgow, rates of hospital admissions for adult after road traffic accidents have been consistently higher for more deprived groups compared to less deprived groups.  The most deprived group (quintile 1) had the highest admission rate between 1997-2001 and 2015-2019, and in the most recent period (2015-2019), the casualty rate in the most deprived quintile was almost double that of the least deprived quintile.

Notes

The figures shown are based on two sources:

Stats 19 statistical returns: made by police forces, which cover all accidents in which a vehicle is involved that occur on roads (including footways) and result in personal injury, if they become known to the police. There could be many non-fatal injury accidents which are not reported by the public to the police, and are therefore not counted in these statistics. Further statistics on Stats 19 based road traffic accidents and casualties can be accessed from Transport Scotland publications.

Hospital admission data: These statistics are derived from data collected on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric acute hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.  The data are based on year of discharge.  Relevant hospital episodes have been identified by admission type (emergency hospital admission: SMR01 admission type code 32 - Patient injury - road traffic accident) and by diagnosis (Pedestrian injured in transport accident (V01-V09), Pedal cyclist injured in transport accident (V10-V19), Motorcycle rider injured in transport accident (V20-V29), Car occupant injured in transport accident (V40-V49), Other (any other diagnosis codes recorded)).