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Do we need speed cameras?
New data released by the government shows many speed cameras are simply being used to raise cash and do not reduce accidents or save lives. Claire Armstrong, the co-founder of Safe Speed and Robert Gifford, Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety go head to head on the merits of cameras.
"Speed is a contributory factor in about 30% of road crashes. A driver’s choice of speed can affect the margins of error that are left when he or someone else makes a mistake. Excess speed – breaking the posted speed limit – can play a significant part in those crashes.
"In fact, police estimates suggest that around 14% of fatal crashes involve excess speed – around 200 road deaths in the 2010 casualty figures''. -Robert Gifford,Executive Director of Parlimentary Advisory Council for Transport Saftey
"Different types of speed camera can have different benefits. The fixed camera is a visual roadside reminder that, at some point, someone has made a fatal mistake.
"DfT advice, after all, makes clear that they should only be placed where there has been a history of fatal or serious crashes, where non-compliance with the speed limit is an identified problem and where no other engineering solution is possible.
"Time over distance cameras are effective in different circumstances: where roadside workers are at risk on motorways and where there is a need to control speed on long stretches of urban road.
"Managing speed means that we reduce the risk to those these able to look after themselves: children, cyclists and older pedestrians. Cameras are part but not all of that management process." -Claire Armstrong, co founder of Safe Speed