Table 19

Motorists involved in accidents by police force division ¹, Years: 2004-08 and 2016-20 averages, 2016 to 2020

Motorists involved
	North East ²	Tayside	Argyll & West Dunbartonshire	Forth Valley	Dumfries & Galloway	Ayrshire	Greater Glasgow	Lothians & Borders Scottish	Edinburgh	Highlands & Islands	Fife	Renfrewshire & Inverclyde	Lanarkshire	Scotland
04-08 ave	1,882	1,589	823	1,112	720	1,296	3,538	2,113	2,178	1,143	1,100	1,047	2,445	20,985
2016	926	690	512	823	449	943	2,538	1,448	1,798	728	773	682	1,628	13,938
2017	738	776	483	710	407	795	2,125	1,317	1,391	590	543	584	1,462	11,921
2018	724	666	387	571	433	746	1,691	1,207	1,198	677	564	530	1,357	10,751
2019	630	596	347	494	325	590	1,712	990	1,112	665	505	454	1,201	9,621
2020	346	618	197	307	192	398	1,072	598	614	374	383	257	672	6,028
16-20 ave	673	669	385	581	361	694	1,828	1,112	1,223	607	554	501	1,264	10,452

Breath test requested
	North East ²	Tayside	Argyll & West Dunbartonshire	Forth Valley	Dumfries & Galloway	Ayrshire	Greater Glasgow	Lothians & Borders Scottish	Edinburgh	Highlands & Islands	Fife	Renfrewshire & Inverclyde	Lanarkshire	Scotland
04-08 ave	1,197	1,310	492	602	512	707	1,809	1,291	1,195	825	749	525	1,350	12,563
2016	451	504	231	518	319	487	1,004	926	970	451	531	292	797	7,481
2017	330	598	260	448	312	464	857	868	769	346	340	289	741	6,622
2018	346	498	212	334	309	421	673	744	625	472	390	214	693	5,931
2019	280	408	171	281	222	318	584	613	596	399	334	187	559	4,952
2020	188	367	123	156	134	213	357	380	350	248	212	115	294	3,137
16-20 ave	319	475	199	347	259	381	695	706	662	383	361	219	617	5,625

Positive/refused
	North East ²	Tayside	Argyll & West Dunbartonshire	Forth Valley	Dumfries & Galloway	Ayrshire	Greater Glasgow	Lothians & Borders Scottish	Edinburgh	Highlands & Islands	Fife	Renfrewshire & Inverclyde	Lanarkshire	Scotland
04-08 ave	51	36	20	26	19	31	67	43	28	35	32	25	60	474
2016	21	18	12	19	9	19	34	31	17	21	12	7	31	251
2017	14	25	4	12	5	11	26	14	15	12	6	18	29	191
2018	14	14	2	12	3	12	23	16	12	17	13	14	25	177
2019	10	15	5	9	12	9	22	16	7	20	6	7	30	168
2020	6	17	2	7	6	4	17	16	14	14	12	8	10	133
16-20 ave	13	18	5	12	7	11	24	19	13	17	10	11	25	184

Breath test requested as a percent of those involved
	North East ²	Tayside	Argyll & West Dunbartonshire	Forth Valley	Dumfries & Galloway	Ayrshire	Greater Glasgow	Lothians & Borders Scottish	Edinburgh	Highlands & Islands	Fife	Renfrewshire & Inverclyde	Lanarkshire	Scotland
04-08 ave	63.6	82.5	59.7	54.1	71.1	54.5	51.1	61.1	54.9	72.2	68.1	50.1	55.2	59.9
2016	48.7	73.0	45.1	62.9	71.0	51.6	39.6	64.0	53.9	62.0	68.7	42.8	49.0	53.7
2017	44.7	77.1	53.8	63.1	76.7	58.4	40.3	65.9	55.3	58.6	62.6	49.5	50.7	55.5
2018	47.8	74.8	54.8	58.5	71.4	56.4	39.8	61.6	52.2	69.7	69.1	40.4	51.1	55.2
2019	44.4	68.5	49.3	56.9	68.3	53.9	34.1	61.9	53.6	60.0	66.1	41.2	46.5	51.5
2020	54.3	59.4	62.4	50.8	69.8	53.5	33.3	63.5	57.0	66.3	55.4	44.7	43.8	52.0
16-20 ave	47.4	71.0	51.8	59.8	71.8	54.8	38.0	63.5	54.1	63.2	65.3	43.8	48.8	53.8

Positive/refused as a percent of motorists involved
	North East ²	Tayside	Argyll & West Dunbartonshire	Forth Valley	Dumfries & Galloway	Ayrshire	Greater Glasgow	Lothians & Borders Scottish	Edinburgh	Highlands & Islands	Fife	Renfrewshire & Inverclyde	Lanarkshire	Scotland
04-08 ave	2.7	2.3	2.4	2.3	2.7	2.4	1.9	2.0	1.3	3.1	2.9	2.4	2.5	2.3
2016	2.3	2.6	2.3	2.3	2.0	2.0	1.3	2.1	0.9	2.9	1.6	1.0	1.9	1.8
2017	1.9	3.2	0.8	1.7	1.2	1.4	1.2	1.1	1.1	2.0	1.1	3.1	2.0	1.6
2018	1.9	2.1	0.5	2.1	0.7	1.6	1.4	1.3	1.0	2.5	2.3	2.6	1.8	1.6
2019	1.6	2.5	1.4	1.8	3.7	1.5	1.3	1.6	0.6	3.0	1.2	1.5	2.5	1.7
2020	1.7	2.8	1.0	2.3	3.1	1.0	1.6	2.7	2.3	3.7	3.1	3.1	1.5	2.2
16-20 ave	1.9	2.7	1.3	2.0	1.9	1.6	1.3	1.7	1.1	2.8	1.8	2.2	2.0	1.8

Positive/refused as a percent of those where breath test requested
	North East ²	Tayside	Argyll & West Dunbartonshire	Forth Valley	Dumfries & Galloway	Ayrshire	Greater Glasgow	Lothians & Borders Scottish	Edinburgh	Highlands & Islands	Fife	Renfrewshire & Inverclyde	Lanarkshire	Scotland
04-08 ave	4.3	2.8	4.0	4.3	3.8	4.4	3.7	3.3	2.3	4.2	4.3	4.8	4.4	3.8
2016	4.7	3.6	5.2	3.7	2.8	3.9	3.4	3.3	1.8	4.7	2.3	2.4	3.9	3.4
2017	4.2	4.2	1.5	2.7	1.6	2.4	3.0	1.6	2.0	3.5	1.8	6.2	3.9	2.9
2018	4.0	2.8	0.9	3.6	1.0	2.9	3.4	2.2	1.9	3.6	3.3	6.5	3.6	3.0
2019	3.6	3.7	2.9	3.2	5.4	2.8	3.8	2.6	1.2	5.0	1.8	3.7	5.4	3.4
2020	3.2	4.6	1.6	4.5	4.5	1.9	4.8	4.2	4.0	5.6	5.7	7.0	3.4	4.2
16-20 ave	4.1	3.7	2.5	3.4	2.7	2.9	3.5	2.6	2.0	4.4	2.7	4.9	4.1	3.3

1. From 2013 "other motor vehicles" and "other non-motor vehicles" categories have been combined on the data collection forms. This means that there are a very small number of non-motor vehicle drivers included in the table.

Other changes to historic data for example new information provided by police will also result in differences in the historic data compared to previous publications.

2. In 2015 the police created a new North East division by combining Aberdeenshire, Moray and Aberdeenshire councils.

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