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ROAD WORKS SPEED CAMERAS TO BE REPLACED
The Times today reports that speed cameras in roadworks are going to be replaced with vehicle activated signs.
Safe Speed has long been warning that speed cameras increase danger because they distract drivers and emphasize the wrong safety factors.
While this is a move in the right direction, it does not come with the required admission from Department for Transport (DfT) that speed cameras have comprehensively failed as a road safety intervention.
Research, commissioned by the Highways Agency and uncovered by Safe Speed using the Freedom of Information Act, warns that fixed speed cameras are associated with a 55% increase in injury crashes at motorway road works.
Speed cameras don't work, it is a big relief that we will not be using them as often in the future.
But, the main part of the problem is an excessive degree of focus on numerical vehicle speed and it seems it will be some more before Department for Transport wakes up to reality.
Department for Transport is now aware of the failure of their policies; they have been told enough times by authoritative bodies, but are refusing to admit it.
We have an appalling state of affairs where people are dying on our roads simply because arrogant and incompetent Labour ministers are not prepared to admit to their mistakes.
Article from the Times Online.
Safe Speed web page regarding roadworks safety research: http://tinyurl.com/n3q6y
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