Number of Road Traffic Accidents

Summary

A request was made for road traffic accident statistics on the Mountain Road and Marine Drive over the past 10 years, excluding TT and MGP periods. The Department of Infrastructure disclosed injury collision figures for the available data period from 2015 to 2020.

Key Facts

• The request specifically excluded accidents occurring during the TT and MGP fortnights.
• The authority only holds collision data starting from 1st January 2015, not the full 10 years requested.
• The figures provided represent injury collisions only, excluding damage-only incidents.
• There were 96 injury collisions recorded on the Mountain Road between 2015 and 2020.
• There were 2 injury collisions recorded on Marine Drive between 2015 and 2020.

Data Disclosed

• 96
• 2
• 1st January 2015
• 31st December 2020
• 11th October 2011
• 25 February 2021
• 19 March 2021
• 1686853

Original Request

Please supply the number of Road Traffic Accidents that have occured over the past 10 years on: 1 - the Mountain Road 2 - the Marine Drive Both sets of figures should exclude any Road Traffic Accidents that occurred during TT fortnight or "MGP" fortnight.

Data Tables (1)

Data Tables (reformatted)

Full Response Text

Department of Infrastructure Sea Terminal Building, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2RF

Contact: FOI Response Team/AD/MF Telephone: (01624) 686785 Email: dpo-doi@gov.im

Our ref: 1686853 19 March 2021

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 25 February 2021 and which states:

"Please supply the number of Road Traffic Accidents that have occured over the past 10 years on: 1 - the Mountain Road 2 - the Marine Drive Both sets of figures should exclude any Road Traffic Accidents that occurred during TT fortnight or "MGP" fortnight."

Section 4(1) of the Freedom of Information Act states that the Act applies only in relation to information created on or after 11th October 2011. However on this occasion, because the earliest collision data that we hold is from 1st January 2015 (with the latest up-to-date figures from 31st December 2020), we have included everything within those dates. The following figures provide the number of collisions that have occurred on 1) Mountain Road and 2) Marine Drive. The figures show the number of injury collisions at each location and not damage only incidents. All recorded collisions within the TT and MGP fortnights have been removed. 1) 96 injury collisions on the Mountain Road. 2) 2 injury collisions on Marine Drive. Please quote the reference number 1686853 in any future communications.

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Yours sincerely

FOI Response Team