The following is from a report on road accidents in Scotland in 1998: A total of 13,828 car users were injured in road accidents, representing 62% of all casualties. Of these people, a total of 2,386 were either fatally or seriously injured, 223 of whom died. Roads in built-up areas accounted for a little over half of all car-user casualties (53%: 7,389 out of 13,828). Presumably because average speeds are higher in non-built-up areas, they accounted for much higher percentages of the total numbers of car users who were fatally injured (84%: 187 out of 223) or were fatally or seriously injured (72%: 1,724 out of 2,386).