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PROPOSED SPEEDING TAX INCREASE
The Daily Express reveals today Government plans to add a levy to motoring fines to support victims of violent crime. Contained within the ''Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill'' is legislation to permit increased fixed penalties for motoring offences, including speeding. Safe Speed considers that this provision is nothing more than a stealth tax. In days gone by motoring laws were used with intelligence against those causing road dangers, but these days normal responsible motorists at safe and responsible speeds are being issued with speeding tickets at the rate of three million each year. The Government has not produced anything approaching a convincing case to demonstrate that the modern deployment of speed cameras is making the roads safer - how could they when road deaths are now on a true rising trend for the first time since the 1960s? Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign said: ''It is abhorrent for the Government to require motorists to contribute to a victims of crime fund on routine speeding tickets. Violent crime has nothing to do with exceeding a speed limit. The government obviously considers motorists to be an easy target.'' Paul continues: ''But it''s far worse than that because forging this false link between minor motoring offences and violence sends a misleading message to road users. Misleading messages cause false priorities. When road users'' priorities are distorted they pay attention to the wrong things and danger increases. Road safety absolutely depends on each individual focusing on the most immediate dangers. At its simplest, this gives drivers one more reason to concentrate on their speedometers instead of the road ahead.'' Paul continues: ''British road safety is the best in the world. Accurate information has been the absolute foundation of our superior performance. But we are going very badly wrong and are squandering our World lead. We have been World leader for 25 years but we are now the slowest improving country in Europe. I am absolutely certain that false and muddled road safety messages are causing our recent bad performance.''
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