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Article: Speed cameras are feeding slush fund

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Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
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March 3, 2007
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When was the last time you saw a traffic police car cruising the motorway or the busy streets of our towns? Over the past 10 years, the number of traffic police has decreased by over 2,000. They have been replaced by 7,000 speed cameras, which the so-called "Safety Camera partnerships" believe are more effective in reducing road accidents. Speed, they claim, is responsible for one third of all road accidents and more cameras are the solution to the problem.

What arrogant nonsense! According to the Department for Transport's own data, only 4 per cent of all road accidents are caused by exceeding the speed limit.

Since the mid-1990s, the number of road deaths has stayed at more or less ...

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