FOLLY BOTTOM - THE TRUTH EMERGES SLOWLY
25 February 2005 - Safe Speed

After last week''s dismissed court cases it seems that the Crown Prosecution Service and the Swindon and Wiltshire Camera Partnership are gradually waking up to the magnitude of the error.

Safe Speed demands that all drivers who have paid a fine are contacted by the camera partnership to have their fines and licence points refunded and compensation paid.

A press release recently issued by the camera partnership includes: ''Although there was clear evidence of careful checks of the signage having been carried out by the enforcing police officers prior to conducting speed checks, the defence expert’s report highlighted that there was INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE to prove a consistently high standard of checks to ensure that the signage met legal requirements at all times.''

In other words: all convictions are unsafe.

Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign
(www.safespeed.org.uk) said: ''It has taken a week for the camera partnership to admit to the error. At first they falsely implied that the cases had been dropped and that only a small number of motorists were affected. Now it is clear that all 5,600 penalties were unsafe. This cowboy behaviour is all too typical of camera partnerships with highly misleading and self serving statistics at the top of the list. The camera partnerships must be disbanded immediately before more harm is done to road safety and the Police / public relationship.''

www.safespeed.org.uk

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