Professor John Robertson OBA
As the season of stored up Freedom of Information requests [at great expense to you] by the opposition parties and BBC Scotland gets into gear, the above only partial data front paging the Herald is a cracker of misrepresentation and deliberate deceit.
In their own words 28 deaths on the A9 over the 4 years but 13 of those in just 2022/2023, the post-pandemic spike? So how many in each of the other 3 years so that we may see the trend? They’re not telling us this despite the fact that we, the taxpayer, paid for the government staff time required to respond to them.
From the official statistics, I know it was only 3 deaths in 2021/2022 and in 2023/2024, so is it the remainder (28-19), 9 deaths in 2024/2025, down from the 2022/2023 peak?
I’m not sure I even trust the 28 deaths figure, they suggest until I see the official figures, given their reluctance to actually tell us figure for 2024/2025.
Finally, what do these FoI’s cost us?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I’m in favour of freedom of information (in fact very little should be “secret” in the first place), but if its for media or political use then they should pay the costs.
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People Killed! Unionists and media ecstatic!! They can blame!!!
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Man going on holiday requests prescription early ….. and gets it!
Scottish Labour pure bealin!
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That A9 story is straight from the “trusted journalism” experts assisted by those “proud Scots”.
And yet, they still expect people to pay £2.60 to read their fabricated stories!
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When the figures for the A9 are put into proportion for vehicles traveled against accidents over the 4 year period the % l would estimate less than 3%. If you do the same dates and vehicles for the A82 you will note the % of accidents is vastly much higher. Again a story in a biased media outlet with an agenda and without any constructive reporting. Lazy and poor journalists getting paid for repeating a story and not investigating a story.
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What about the figures for the past 10 or 20 years to put the quoted data in context?
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Sorry but only now catching up after flaky thunderstorms met already flaky power supplies and flaky internet, and just as I begin to type this, yet another public alert for imminent hailstorms comes in on the mobile, with frankly remarkable precision.
Was there a public safety warning in Scotland prior to the Sue Webber heilstorm, or was it simply disregarded in the same manner as with her predecessor ‘Barf’ Simpson ? – https://archive.ph/w9aBL.
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Published on 3rd June 2025
https://www.transport.gov.scot/news/increase-in-number-of-people-killed-on-scotland-s-roads-2/
Scotland’s Road Safety Framework to 2030 contains four national targets for casualty reductions due for delivery in 2030. These targets compare performance to a 2014-2018 baseline.
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