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Article: More UK speed cameras after success in city; Glasgow road casualties slashed by two-thirds
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- February 11, 2003
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MORE speed cameras are to be introduced across Britain after a
pilot scheme in Glasgow showed that deaths and serious injuries had
been cut by two-thirds.
The national project, which was tried out in six areas, showed
tragedies caused by speeding had been cut by an average of one-
third.
But the most successful pilot scheme was in and around Glasgow
where casualties were cut by more than two-thirds.
Extra cameras are now to be introduced to step up speed monitoring
and they will be paid for by the cash received from speeding fines.
The Strathclyde Safety Camera Partnership today said the new
figures proved cameras cut crashes.
And now almost every police force in Britain is planning to ...