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Originally Posted by timwilky
As I have posted before. I have a family friend who was very badly smashed up when a car lost control when the driver panic braked for a speed camera. It mounted the pavement and knocked him over the wall of a bridge into the river below. It also hit his wife who also suffered a broken leg and ribs.
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That's absolutely awful.
Another (and worringly, fairly hard to 'prove' with any sort of accuracy) problem with speed cameras is the knock on effect of other, indirectly linked, accidents caused by an absence of traffic coppers. There's no one to catch people driving badly (provided they don't speed), so those people remain on the road (and quite possibly remain ignorant of the fact they're driving like spanners), until they have/cause an accident.