UK CAR ACCIDENT INJURY CLAIM
Our lawyers will represent the victim of a negligent driver in a car accident injury claim using the no win no fee scheme. If the other driver has been identified then compensation is always paid in full. Our lawyers do not require you to pay anything at all and no win no fee claims handled by our solicitors are genuinely risk free.
Speed Camera Law & Developments I Please note that we only deal with personal injury compensation
claims and we do not provide advice on speeding offences.
| 1973 |
Radar Gun.- VASCAR (Visual Average Speed Computer
and Recorder) is used for the first time by Essex & Southend
Constabulary. |
| 1992 |
Fixed Cameras Installed. Speed enforcement cameras
introduced at permanent sites. |
| December 1998 |
Police may be allowed to keep fines. The move would allow forces throughout Britain to turn the
controversial cameras into a real deterrent to reduce offences and the incidence of car accident injury claim legal action. The cameras raise £17m a year
in fines but it goes straight to the Treasury. Police have
complained that they cannot afford to keep all their cameras supplied with
film and prosecute all of the thousands of motorists caught.
The
Government has said it will 'look favourably' on any schemes to let camera
operators keep more of their fines, but there will be 'strict safeguards'
to ensure the cameras are not used simply to raise money. The AA said it
would not oppose the idea providing that the cash is not used as a
financial incentive to install more cameras. The RAC said it was disturbed
and unhappy. It believed that cameras should be there to save lives and
not to make money for the police and councils.
A spokesman for
The Association of Chief Police Officers said 'it could cut the death toll
on the roads - we will have more sites, more cameras, and they will be
used more. The chances of getting caught will rise
significantly. |
| July 2000 |
33 MPH and You Could Be Nicked. New guidance from
the Association of Chief Police Officers means that drivers exceeding the
30 mph speed limit by just 3 mph could face prosecution. Patrol officers will be able to use their discretion. For
example a driver doing 33 mph outside a school when there are children and
parents about could face a summons, but when doing 38mph on the same road
late in the evening may escape with a fixed penalty. It is hoped that this zero tolerance policy will reduce car accident injury claim legal action. |
| May 2001 |
Helicopter Surveillance. Police in Derbyshire
announce that they will use their helicopter to spot bad driving and
speeding on a stretch of the A6 between Belper and Buxton where numerous
accidents have occurred in the last three years, many of them being
motorcycle riders. The helicopter itself will not carry speed detection
equipment, but officers will pass on details of the offender to patrol
cars on the ground. |
Home Zones are an attempt to strike a balance between vehicular
traffic and everyone else who uses the street including pedestrians,
cyclists, business people and residents.
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