Glasgow City Region

Child (age 5-15) road casualties in Glasgow City Region authorities

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Between 1997-2001 and 2015-2019, the number of child road casualties per 100,000 population in Glasgow has fallen from 572 to 174, on average. This constitutes approximately a 70% drop. The child casualty rate for each of the Glasgow City Region local authorities has decreased over the period, although Glasgow has generally had the highest rate.

The casualty rates recorded by the police (via Stats 19) are higher 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.

Child (age 5-15) road traffic accident hospital admissions in Glasgow City Region local authorities

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Glasgow had the highest rate of child road accident hospital admissions in the Glasgow City Region local authorities until 2012-2016, when the rate dropped below that of West Dunbartonshire.  There has been a general downward trend in the rate of child road casualty hospitalisations for most local authorities across the time period.

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)).