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PaulB2005 Pocket GPS Moderator


Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 9323 Location: Durham, UK
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:14 am Post subject: RAC claim scrapping camera will cost 800 lives a year |
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BBC News
Quote: | Some 800 more people a year could be killed or seriously injured on the UK's roads if all speed cameras were scrapped, a report has suggested.
Professor Richard Allsop said cameras had offered continuing road safety benefits since they were introduced.
Several councils have decided to scrap their speed camera programmes after the government cut road safety grants. |
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Darren Frequent Visitor

Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:16 am Post subject: |
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If the Treasury receive £6 from each £60 Fixed Penalty I'd like to see the breakdown of costs and where the other £54 is going? _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Skippy Pocket GPS Verifier


Joined: 24/06/2003 00:22:12 Posts: 2946 Location: Escaped to the Antipodies! 36.83°S 174.75°E
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:42 am Post subject: |
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RAC wrote: | RAC claim scrapping camera will cost 800 lives a year |
They don't actually. What they claim is that 800 more people will be killed or seriously injured. In 2009 there were 26,912 KSIs in Great Britain.
What the RAC are trying to say is that the number of KSIs would rise by 3% if cameras were scrapped. Looks like they were an expensive failure, scrap them and concentrate on getting the unlicensed, disqualified, untaxed, uninsured drivers off the road instead.
Darren wrote: | If the Treasury receive £6 from each £60 Fixed Penalty I'd like to see the breakdown of costs and where the other £54 is going? |
Indeed! According to the article, the cameras generated about 100 Million in fines over the year. I don't believe that it costs 90 million pounds a year to run a network of 6,000 cameras. The scamera partnerships must have gold plated taps in their bathrooms.  _________________ Gone fishing! |
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DennisN Tired Old Man


Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14903 Location: Keynsham
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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Skippy wrote: | Indeed! According to the article, the cameras generated about 100 Million in fines over the year. I don't believe that it costs 90 million pounds a year to run a network of 6,000 cameras. The scamera partnerships must have gold plated taps in their bathrooms.  | Following one link in the article, another BBC article in July 2010 says the 100m is in total since cameras were introduced Quote: | Now, 18 years, 6,000 cameras, and an estimated £100m in fines later, speed cameras could be nearing the end of the road - at least in England and Wales. |
_________________ Dennis
If it tastes good - it's fattening.
Two of them are obesiting!! |
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