Get $scope reference on $rootScope event handler-Collection of common programming errors

In the .run section of the main module of my application, I have an event handler for the $locationChangeStart event. I want to use this in order to confirm discarding unsaved changes. The problem is that I need a reference to the $scope in order to perform these checks.

I tried adding that reference as I added the one for the $rootScope, but I get an error Uncaught Error: Unknown provider: $scopeProvider