LONDON FOLLY - SPEED CAMERA OPERATIONS DESCEND INTO CHAOS
23 June 2005 - SAVA Group

The London Evening Standard today reports that £330,000 in speed camera fines must be refunded. Apparently one of the cameras was installed in the wrong place.

Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign
(www.safespeed.org.uk) said: ''This is sheer incompetence. The inconvenience and the waste of public money is astronomical. With errors being exposed in speed camera prosecutions all over the country, every motorist who receives the dreaded notice must question every detail BEFORE he submits the £60 pound fine.''

''Some of those wrongly convicted in London will have lost their jobs because of a so-called offence they did not commit. They must be compensated properly with public funds. It will be expensive and heads must roll at Transport for London.''

''After £700 million pounds in speed camera fines Britain''s road have not got safer. We won''t get back on the right road safety track until speed cameras are consigned to the history books. It is now crystal clear that they do not improve road safety so it''s only a matter of time. How much longer do we have to wait before the authorities confess that it was all a massive blunder?''

www.safespeed.org.uk

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