A steep rise in police incidents on Arran can be largely put down to motoring mishaps, according to local officers.
Laying out the statistics at a recent meeting of Arran Community Council, Sergeant Allen Dodds revealed that no fewer than 161 incidents had been reported in the previous five weeks. Removing duplicate reports, the number stood at 150 unique incidents as opposed to 85 in 2015 – a 76 per cent increase on the year.
The majority of the incidents contributing to this big increase, said Sergeant Dodds, were road traffic accidents.