BBC Scotland is making much of a one-year fluctuation in road death figures which is not statistically significant and which does not contradict the clear evidence of a longer term steady and dramatic falling trend.
They claim:
Campaigners have expressed fears over the impact of cuts to road traffic officer numbers in the last decade.
Figures obtained by BBC Scotland News reveal there were 548 officers in June – 14% less than in March 2014.
The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) and road safety charity Brake said a visible presence offered a strong deterrent against offending.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66917013
Note, from the above chart, that road deaths in 2022 were at 174, just above half the level of around 300 when the SNP came to power in 2007. Note also that when Labour came to power in the UK and in Scotland, the level was nearly 400.
As for staffing, down 14% according to BBC Scotland, is that not reasonable when deaths are down by a far higher percentage?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
It would appear that the level of BBCScorcheland bullsh*t reporting has risen exponentially since 2014 .
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I wonder if a rise in road traffic accidents might be in store given the backlash against reducing speed limits in cities, by some idiots. Might just be me but there seem to be a few drivers ignoring the twenty mile an hour limit around us, very recently. I was stunned to see a guy on his mobile yesterday turning a corner at traffic lights, too many people are idiots behind the wheel.
Good to see that traffic accident deaths have been reduced over the years, almost a thousand back in 1969, that’s a lot, how awful.
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Very valid point. Our village has had a 20mph limit for some time and it is ridiculous how many drivers exceed it, one example is tractors (supposedly limited to 30mph but clearly capable of more) never seem to slow at all.
I recently came out of our street on to the Main Street and accelerated up to 20mph, when suddenly a car driver behind me angrily blew his horn as he had rapidly caught up to me. I delighted In staying at 20mph holding him back.
Surprisingly he didn’t overtake me when we exited the village, the road was clear and I was well within 60 limit.
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With the political and media performative outrage about Low Emission Zones, including Starmer’s craven response to the loss of a bye-election in London, about low traffic neighbourhoods and the tacitly approving reporting of damage to cameras and bollards, the fuss about 20mph in Wales and the pushing of the term ‘The War on the Motorist’, it is possible that this kind of thing might embolden the few bampots who ought never be allowed behind a wheel at any time.
The majority of road accident victims are pedestrians and cyclists and most of the accidents occur in areas of high deprivation because these are the areas where there are ‘rat runs’ so that the more affluent can get quickly into and out of city centres.
Whenever rat runs are blocked, we get ‘vox pops’ of a ‘struggling small business person whose business will be destroyed.’ The Tories then become ‘defenders of the poorer people.’
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