The Mail Online has ran an article that highlights a new speed camera that’s been erected at a set of lights at a 30mph stretch of a dual carriageway in Poole, Dorset, to catch motorists jumping red lights. The normal reason (or at least the justification) for a speed camera is that there are a number of accidents that have taken place in the area and the thought behind it is that a speed camera will serve to slow down traffic.
The debate on speed being the main cause of accidents aside, the suggestion is that this particular camera has managed to net in over £1 million to date, thanks to 1,843 motorists a month being caught. Further in the article, a spokesperson from the Dorset Safety Camera Partnership states that it is a ‘community concern site’, though apparently chosen for concern by the local council rather than the actual community.
In some cases, I’m actually for speed cameras if it slows traffic down in an area that can be proven to have had a problem with speeding motorists being involved in accidents. However, when a local council simply decides they are ‘concerned’, all this does is annoy residents, raise revenue and paint the police in a bad light.
Read the full article on the speed camera in question at The Mail Online.
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