Scotland's Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson has today unveiled the "Go Safe on Scotland’s Roads – It’s Everyone’s Responsibility” which is a ten year road safety framework running until 2020.

It is the first time that Scotland has set its own road safety targets, aiming to reduce road accident fatalities by 40% and serious injuries from road accidents by 55% over the next decade.

Despite the number of deaths dropping in Scotland over the last thirty years as a result of road accidents, claims were made that more must be done by the Scottish road safety offices for RoSPA who commented:

“Scotland has made tremendous progress on reducing death and injury on Scottish roads over the last 10 years, thanks in large part to the work of the Scottish Government, Road Safety Scotland, local authorities, police forces, fire and rescue services and organisations like RoSPA.

“We at RoSPA warmly welcome and strongly support Scotland’s Road Safety Framework to 2020 which is a pre-requisite for continuing and strengthening the fight against the avoidable loss of life and limb on Scottish roads.”

Calls made in the road safety framework include devolved powers which will allow for random breath tests and a lowering of the drink drive limit.

It is also proposed that Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) devices should be piloted, built up areas be made into 20mph zones, better teaching resources for schools and driver training becomes a lifelong learning process.

On Scotland’s roads there were 281 fatalities as a result of road accidents during 2007.