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14-03-05, 04:02 PM
NO MORE SPEED CAMERAS SAYS TOP COP
BRITAIN's top traffic cop is calling for a halt on any more speed cameras insisting: "Enough's enough."
Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom has made the amazing U-turn after admitting that the policy is failing to end the carnage on the roads.
"We have 6,000 cameras in the UK covering every identifiable hotspot, yet road deaths have gone up," said Mr Brunstrom, head of road policing at the Association of Chief Police Officers.
"We can't keep on going until there is a camera on each lamppost. We've got to stop somewhere."
The ACPO wants to double the number of cameras to 12,000, but Mr Brunstrom called for a rethink after latest figures showed 3,508 died on our roads in 2003 - the highest figure since 1997. And last year deaths and serious injuries actually increased at one camera site in seven, even though 2.2millon drivers were fined and had three points put on their licence.
Mr Brunstrom wants a softly-softly approach with vehicle-activated signs warning drivers to slow down.
"When we look at deaths on the roads we discover we're dreadfully out of step," he said. "We want to create a culture where cameras are friends." The transport lab TRL found the vehicle-activated signs, which cost £5,000 each, led to a 7mph fall in average speeds along with a 34 per cent reduction in accidents.
This compares with a 3.7mph cut in speeds and 14 per cent reduction in accidents where speed cameras costing £30,000 are installed
BRITAIN's top traffic cop is calling for a halt on any more speed cameras insisting: "Enough's enough."
Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom has made the amazing U-turn after admitting that the policy is failing to end the carnage on the roads.
"We have 6,000 cameras in the UK covering every identifiable hotspot, yet road deaths have gone up," said Mr Brunstrom, head of road policing at the Association of Chief Police Officers.
"We can't keep on going until there is a camera on each lamppost. We've got to stop somewhere."
The ACPO wants to double the number of cameras to 12,000, but Mr Brunstrom called for a rethink after latest figures showed 3,508 died on our roads in 2003 - the highest figure since 1997. And last year deaths and serious injuries actually increased at one camera site in seven, even though 2.2millon drivers were fined and had three points put on their licence.
Mr Brunstrom wants a softly-softly approach with vehicle-activated signs warning drivers to slow down.
"When we look at deaths on the roads we discover we're dreadfully out of step," he said. "We want to create a culture where cameras are friends." The transport lab TRL found the vehicle-activated signs, which cost £5,000 each, led to a 7mph fall in average speeds along with a 34 per cent reduction in accidents.
This compares with a 3.7mph cut in speeds and 14 per cent reduction in accidents where speed cameras costing £30,000 are installed