The Galloway News report:

Council vehicles were involved in 448 crashes in three years – an average of three a week.

And the total cost of repairing the damage came in at more than £319,000.

The figures, revealed in a Freedom of Information request made by the News, cover the period from October 2009 to September, 2012.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.