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SCOTTISH DEATHS UP AS SPEED CAMERA POLICY BITES
Scottish Executive figures released today confirm a 9% rise in deaths on Scotland''s roads in 2003. Safe Speed has long warned of rises in fatal road accidents closely associated with an over reliance on speed cameras. Paul Smith, Founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign said: ''How many more people have to die on the roads while government doggedly pursues the wrong road safety policy? When will they realise that an over-reliance on speed cameras is killing us?'' Paul continues: ''Many people think that ''it''s obvious'' that speed cameras will make the roads safer. But for every complex problem there''s a solution that''s neat, simple, obvious and completely wrong. Speed cameras are the wrong solution. Everyone is distracted from the real causes of crashes. Drivers are becoming obsessed with their speedometers and the location of the next camera, but they need to be looking at the road ahead. Local authorities and the camera partnerships are obsessed with their own faulty solution, and are becoming addicted to the income.'' Paul continues: ''We must scrap speed cameras now. They have failed. Road deaths are going up despite huge ongoing improvements in vehicle safety and paramedic care. These improvements swamp the growth in traffic and deaths should be going down. Bad policy is killing us. IT HAS TO STOP.
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