To be fair to those the 'report' 'blames', the number of casualaties has dropped significantly - its just bad luck that of those, more of them died than before, possibly due to the severity of the crash or other factors outside the authorities' control, such as speed, weather, etc.
The only ones that would, in my view, be a factor is a) the response time of the emergency services (including how long from the time of the accident to getting to an appropriate hospital and be treated) and b) the quality of care in hospital. I doubt if the roads themeselves would've changed that much to lead to such an increase in death, as surely the 'seriously injured' rate would've increased as well, when it didn't.
Like many media reports, this one doesn't really bring much new information to the issue other than the raw figures, which, without context, are meaningless.
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