A MAJOR safety campaign has been launched following an alarming rise in deaths and injuries on Argyll’s roads.
The number of accidents resulting in serious injury more than doubled in the year to July 2016 – alongside a four-fold increase in the number of people killed. In response, a partnership involving Police Scotland, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Argyll and Bute Council’s road safety unit has be gun a month-long rural roads safety initiative ahead of a national campaign in September.
In the year to July this year, police figures show eight people died on Argyll’s roads, as opposed to two over the same period in 2015. Road traffic collisions resulting in serious injury rose from nine to 21.