SAFETY CAMERAS ARE DANGEROUS
04 August 2005 - Safe Speed

Reports are flooding in about all sorts of careless and dangerous driver behaviour caused by the flawed and misguided A77 SPECS speed camera scheme.

Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign
(www.safespeed.org.uk) said: ''Road safety depends on drivers paying attention to their surroundings and behaving courteously and predictably. Under the threat of SPECS enforcement on the A77, drivers are behaving strangely and unpredictably. Clearly they are concerned about the threat to their driving licences. Safety takes a back seat. A77 specs must be abandoned immediately. People are going to die because these cameras are dangerous.''

''It should be quite obvious to anyone who has examined the subject that strict speed limit compliance is a much lower safety priority than paying full attention to immediate hazards - yet in the distorted world of the speed camera the opposite is true.''

''After 12 years of speed cameras, 12 million motorists fined and £700,000 of fines the roads have not got safer. In fact there''s absolutely no worthy evidence that speed cameras save lives or serious injuries available anywhere. And the government hasn''t even begun to consider the huge side effects of the infernal devices yet - although a research contract starts in September - that''s about 15 years too late.''

''The DfT called a moratorium on approving further sites because their evidence is shaky. That moratorium is nowhere near enough. Speed camera enforcement must cease immediately - it''s killing us.

www.safespeed.org.uk

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