24 November 2010
From: Brake, the road safety charity, PO Box 548, Huddersfield, HD1 2XZ
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Speed cameras in Oxfordshire are to be reinstated on 1 April next year as early evidence shows that speeding has increased by as much as 400% at camera sites.
A new organisational structure is being put in place that will see Thames Valley Police taking over the cost and running of the cameras, funding it through fees from drivers sent on speed awareness courses.
Read more here.
News also out today authored by Professor Richard Allsop finds that 800 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 this summer were to be decommissioned.
Read more here.
Julie Townsend, campaigns director, said: “This is fantastic news for communities in Oxfordshire. The bottom line is that cameras are highly effective in reducing speeding and preventing deaths and serious injuries. I just hope that other counties that have turned off all or some of their cameras will follow suit, acknowledging that the big switch off was a terrible blow to community safety.”
