24 November 2010

From: Brake, the road safety charity, PO Box 548, Huddersfield, HD1 2XZ
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Eight hundred more people could be killed or seriously injured each year on Britain’s roads if all the fixed and mobile speed cameras operational before the road safety grant was cut in summer 2010 were to be decommissioned.

The report finds that a large majority of the public have consistently backed the use of cameras. It also dispels the myth that penalties generated by cameras are a significant source of revenue, showing that in 2007 just £4 out of every £60 raised in penalties was net income to the Treasury and there was no surplus for local authorities or the police.

Click here to read this new research authored by Professor Richard Allsop.