The number of road accidents should be properly monitored in Dumfries and Galloway to help improve safety, a councillor has argued.
Police Scotland and Transport Scotland focus largely on fatality numbers to identify problem hotspots and allocate funding to introduce road safety measures.
This is the wrong way to go, says Mid and Upper Nithsdale Councillor Jim Dempster. He spoke out after a road safety report was produced at the council’s communities committee last week.
