§ Mr. G. M. Thomsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state in respect of each police authority area the number of road accidents per 106W 1,000 of the population during the most recent convenient period.
§ Mr. MaclayThe figures are as follows for the year 1960:
ROAD ACCIDENTS INVOLVING PERSONAL INJURY SCOTLAND, 1960 Police Area Number of accidents Accidents per 1,000 population Angus 450 4.61 Dundee 722 3.99 Argyll 214 3.82 Ayr County 1,015 4.00 Ayr Burgh 192 4.32 Kilmarnock 81 1.77 Berwick, Roxburgh and Selkirk 417 4.68 Caithness 62 2.37 Dumfries and Galloway 610 4.05 Dunbarton County 936 5.20 Fife 1,187 3.65 Inverness County 267 4.86 Inverness Burgh 79 2.77 Lanark County 1,558 4.40 Airdrie 42 1.26 Coatbridge 124 2.30 Glasgow 3,761 3.49 Hamilton 174 4.18 Motherwell 301 4.14 Lothian and Peebles 927 3.44 Edinburgh 1,825 3.88 Orkney 40 2.08 Perth and Kinross 535 5.80 Perth 160 3.89 Renfrew and Bute 713 4.03 Greenock 175 2.23 Paisley 461 4.75 Ross and Cromarty 148 2.50 Scottish N.E. Counties… 980 3.59 Aberdeen City 993 5.31 Stirling and Clackmannan 992 4.21 Sutherland 21 1.62 Zetland 29 1.59 Total 20,191 3.88