fungus wrote:No, No, No, haven't you read what the experts from BRAKE have said. This is a dangerous thing. "The council are playing with peoples lives."....
fungus wrote:Maybe it was the A53. We were travelling up to Blackshaw Moor just north of Leek back in May, and I remember one road coming out of Stoke that seemed to have more than it's fair share of speed cameras.
adiNigel wrote:If teh ksi figures even slightly increase they are going to end up with egg on their faces.
The number of accidents on roads next to Swindon's shrouded speed cameras is the same now as when they were active, according to council figures.
The five fixed cameras were covered in July last year after the Conservative-run borough council withdrew funding.
The council said it wanted to divert the money spent on cameras to alternative road safety measures.
Swindon's Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors said they would turn the cameras back on if they had the chance.
Council statistics show there was one death and eight minor accidents on the roads in the six months from August 2008.
In the six months from August last year, there were no fatalities, seven minor accidents and two serious ones.
Councillor Peter Greenhalgh, who is in charge of roads at the council, said the figures were encouraging.
"The period has been relatively short so there is always a chance that there will be a statistical blip, which might actually be that someone has been killed, but so far it really confirms what we were thinking," he said.
The council was the first English local authority to abandon fixed cameras.
Mobile cameras are still used by the police.
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