ROAD safety charity Brake has called on the next government to make traffic enforcement a national policing priority, after a report revealed that half of UK drivers admitted breaking traffic laws.

Half of those said they did so deliberately because they thought they could get away with it or did not agree with the laws. The other half said they did so through inattention.

Brake, based in West Yorkshire, said it was concerned that UK roads were becoming increasingly lawless territory, with police officers reporting they had been forced to “retreat” from motorways and roads. At the same time, road deaths and serious injuries recently increased by four per cent, after Government casualty reduction targets were dropped.