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Speed Camera Law & Developments IV Please note that we can only deal with a road accident injury claim
and we do not provide advice on speeding offences.
| June 2002 |
Many of those cameras won't be scrapped after all!
Now it appears that a camera can remain in place if it can't be proved
that it is acting as a speed deterrent. Forces have been told that they
could keep existing cameras even if they didn't meet the criteria.
If it can be proved that a camera is having a deterrent effect then it
would be allowed to stay.
More Cameras to be installed. Many more police forces are to
join the 'Safety Camera Partnership' in which a proportion of the revenue
raised from fines must be ploughed back into reducing road casualties.
Currently any police forces outside the partnership can hide their cameras
behind signs or bushes and can leave them painted grey. This situation
should change when all police forces join the partnership. The
biggest increase is likely to be in mobile cameras which have to be
clearly visible and operate from vans which are clearly marked.
Also, there will have to be warning signs before the camera
location. |
| August 2002 |
Danger Roads Have Fewest Cameras. A survey has
claimed that there are almost a third more speed cameras on safe roads
than on the most dangerous. The study has revealed that 18 cameras
monitor more than 500 miles of the most hazardous roads compared to 24 on
the 50 safest stretches. The report was compiled for Autocar
magazine.
Study suggests that Speed Cameras cause more Accidents. A study
by Transport Planning Consultant David Keenan has suggested that some
cameras actually increase the chances of crashes. Drivers
approaching them brake suddenly risking being hit by the car behind, then
race away even faster than before.
He found that in sites
which used the traditional one-flash Gatso cameras the number of accidents
rose. Modern specs devices, which measure the average speed of a
vehicle between points, are much more effective at reducing both speed and
the incidence of a road accident injury claim occurring on a particular stretch of road. But they are far more expensive to buy and install,
meaning that Gatso cameras are still used at the vast majority of
sites.
The survey lists sites where accidents have increased
significantly where Gatso cameras are used but reports that at a site
where the new-style specs camera was present accidents reduced from 33 in
the year up to installation in July 2000, to 22 in the 12 months
after.
The Department of Transport insisted that its own research has
shown a reduction of 47 per cent in the number killed and seriously
injured at sites where cameras are installed. |
LARSOA
Local Authority Road
Safety Officers Association.
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