Injury RTC’s (37A/20)
Request
* Numbers of road traffic accidents reported to police in the month of March 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016 (ideally split into each policing area again).
* Any information about injuries sustained for each accident, if held.
Response
Our data are not organised in such a way as to allow us to provide this information within the appropriate (cost) limit within the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (see ‘Reason for Decision’ below).
Although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, as a gesture of goodwill I have supplied information, relative to your request, retrieved before it was realised that the fees limit would be exceeded (see attached). I trust this is helpful, but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fees regulations for the remainder of the request.
REASON FOR DECISION
Please note that researching each individual case would exceed the appropriate limit (FOIA, s.12). In some of the older cases injury type is not recorded, in order to locate and retrieve this information we would need to review each paper report which would exceed the FOI time limit.
The cost of compliance with the whole of your request is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond, i.e. the cost of locating and retrieving the information would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12(1) of the FOI Act 2000. For West Midlands Police, the appropriate limit is set at £450, as prescribed by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004, S.I. 3244.
Attachments
37A_ATTACHMENT_03_2018 37A_ATTACHMENT_04_2019 37A_ATTACHMENT_05_2020 37A_ATTACHMENT_01_2016 37A_ATTACHMENT_02_2017