Thought I would post this seeing as TG is always drawing our attention to how ridiculous the claim that speed cameras save lives is, and how they are simply government cash machines designed to rip off the general public. Front page article from the telegraph online today:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/29/nspeed29.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/29/nspeed29.xml
A review of the Government's speed cameras policy was demanded yesterday after official statistics showed that only five per cent of crashes are caused by drivers breaking the speed limit.
Drivers who let their attention wander cause more than six times as many accidents.
Speed cameras: under attack
Campaigners seized on the figures and demanded: "In that case, why are there so many cameras?"
Paul Smith, of Safe Speed, which has led the campaign, said the Government's case for continuing to install cameras had been destroyed.
"Even those statistics are flawed, because they could include a joy-rider who is going at 100mph and no camera will ever stop him," he said. "They are spinning like tops to justify the camera programme."
Motoring groups called for a broader approach to road safety and a revaluation of the ?95 million camera project.