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Article: Notorious city road may get speed cameras

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February 2, 2007
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Speed cameras could be installed on a notorious beach-front road in Aberdeen to clamp down on rogue drivers who use it as a race track.

Grampian Police and the city council are in talks to install four average speed cameras along Beach Boulevard.

The so-called yellow vultures, named on account of their hunched shape, note the number plate and the time of a car going past at one point and again at another point to calculate the average speed of a vehicle over a stretch of road.

The cameras, mounted on poles overhanging the road, are currently being used on the A90 south of Dundee where road works are being carried out.

A spokesman for the council last night confirmed that a report on the ...

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