What can't speak cannot lie.
I'The graph below, published by PACTS cannot be misinterpreted. 'Casualties killed or injured since 2010' is a clear statement.
In 2010, according to our research, there were 24510 K/SI as the graph indicates.
So then PACTS goes on to simpy add year on year what could be a total expected by 2050. Even if accident rates halved, this same figure would be reached at some point anyway. What this graph doesn't do is show a trend: Upwards, downwards or level.
What it does do though is deceive, media, politicians and public of an exponential rise in road casualties that isn't happening and certainly cannot have happened yet anyway. We show the actual national trends below this graph. They show that it isn't just happening in Northern Ireland, London and Scotland but nationally too.
K/SI 2010 to 2014
K/SI 2005 to 2014.
So there is a clear national downward trend.
So what is it about PACTS that they cannot accept good road safety results or get road casualties into the right perspective? Perhaps possibly being on the driver regulation and road safety gravy train could have something to do with it.