RE: speed camera safety stats

[Chav]

an interesting article.

road deaths not going down, and convictions spiralling (2002)

will be interesting to see any more up to date stats they can produce.

safespeed camera stats

[Ari]

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road deaths not going down, and convictions spiralling (2002)

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You have to bear in mind cars getting much safer too. So if road safety remained at the same level you'd expect less deaths due to air bags, stronger cars etc. So in fact the speed camera safety culture is failing even worse.

Fact is, it isn't speed that kills it is dangerous driving (which may encompass excess speed, but also a whole host of other bad driving). Sadly the cameras do not capture bad driving in any form except one...

Of course it could also be the prolification of 4X4's and double cabs on our roads in the last 5 - 10 years...

[Tomk]

to be honest i think that cameras dont save lives at all.... in fact i really belive they may cause more accidents...

[Ari]

I think if they were deployed correctly they would.

Put them outside schools or where there are dangerous junctions, places where people really ought to be taking it easy, and that would be fine.

But sticking them on long clear straights with the intention of just pulling in cash is a big no no, as is using them instead of trained traffic officers able to actually police bad driving.

[Tomk]

100% agree, every school and busy street should have one, but not 40's motoways places were no one has been killed...

[cruiser647]

They should have video cameras to record dnagerous driving - rather than just speed. You can drive at 30 (in a 30 limit) dangerously and cause an accident. But you won't get caught by the camera as it is set to 35 or whatever.

Maybe they should have non-speed video cameras on the motorways to record accidents and sort out who casued it - so they can prosecute them.

[shao_khan]

I have said for a long time and even proposed guidelines for scrapping speed cameras and introducing a video based 'careless driving' camera.

At the lowest level the principle is quite simple, specs type cameras and any 'defined' road hazard.

Slip road for a motorway - you have a camera on the slip road, one just down the road say 300yds - any car that was on the slip road camera and in the fast lane on the motorway camera gets points for breach of the highway code and careless driving - i.e. not remaining in the lane to enable the driver to get used to travelling at motorway speeds, instead tanking across 3 lanes of traffic.

This sytem could apply to most roundabouts, slip roads, junctions or other road hazard.

SO far Government is uninterested.