UK CAR ACCIDENT INJURY CLAIM
Our lawyers will represent the victim of a negligent driver in a car accident compensation UK 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 V Please note that we only deal with personal injury compensation
claims and we do not provide advice on speeding offences.
| September 2002 |
Motorists facing 1000 more Mobile Speed Cameras. It
has emerged that the number of mobile speed cameras will more than treble
by the end of the year. The growth in mobile cameras will come in
those areas which have signed up to the Government's 'Partnership'
scheme.
Police figures have revealed that the number of cameras in the
Government's 'Safety Cameras Partnership' will rocket by a staggering 225
per cent - from 400 to 1400.
New Government rules say cameras installed
by forces in the partnership have to be visible and operate from clearly
marked vans with advance warning signs. They also have to be placed
at accident black spots. Lawyers are sceptical as to whether or not car accident compensation UK claims will be reduced by the blizzard of new cameras. |
| November 2002 |
Hidden Cameras Purge. Police chiefs have been told
to remove hidden speed cameras or face losing the money they raise
from drivers' fines.
Transport minister John Spellar is said to be
furious that police forces are breaching the rules which state that
cameras must not be obscured.
A transport department spokesman said:
"We will be contacting the local camera partnerships - involving police,
local authorities and the Highways Agency - to raise this"
Money raised
from fines is ploughed back into the scheme, but camera mountings must be
bright yellow and clearly visible. There must also be warnings of
their presence. |
| March 2003 |
Some New Cameras may be Hidden. Following the
threat of a judicial review the Department of Transport has agreed that
the visibility rules could be flexible so as to permit the use in
exceptional circumstances of covert fixed speed cameras as well as covert
mobile cameras.
Car accident compensation UK lawyers have expressed doubt that these hidden cameras will contribute in any way to accident reduction.
Signs, not Cameras Make Roads Safer. Research has shown that
electronic signs which warn speeding motorists to slow down are more
effective than cameras in reducing accidents. Using radar to measure a
vehicles speed, the automated signs cost far less to install and operate
than cameras.
The Transport Research Laboratory report stated that
speeds dropped by up to 7mph at junctions and bends where there were there
were signs. When triggered by a car exceeding the speed limit, they
can flash up messages ranging from a roundel indicating the correct speed
limit to a warning to "Slow Down". |
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