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An investigation by IAM RoadSmart, the UK’s biggest independent road safety charity, has found that more than a third-of police forces are using their mobile safety camera vans to prosecute drivers not wearing seatbelts or using a handheld mobile phone. The information comes from a Freedom of Information request submitted to 44 police forces which […]
The Telegraph has reported a speed camera ticket issued in error – after a driver was shown incorrectly to be travelling 56 miles per hour about the limit! The driver in question, it was reported, contested the error and got a solicitor involved. A check of both photographs apparently showed the driver had not in […]
Nine people have been caught by safety cameras in Scotland exceeding 120mph during 2014, according to the latest figures obtained by leading road safety charity the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM). The charity made a Freedom of Information request to Police Scotland asking for details of the Top 20 cases of excessive speeding captured on […]
Struggling to find the ideal present for the motorist in the family this Christmas? How about an app that will help protect your driving licence for months or even years to come. A UK company currently leads the way in speed camera alert technology. Their technically advanced and inexpensive iPhone app, now available at an […]
We’re always being told that the reason behind speed cameras is to slow people down in order to make a certain spot less dangerous. Of course, that’s assuming that speed has actually been a factor in the accidents that have taken place previously. To be fair, it’s not rocket science to assume this, given that […]
The Mail Online has a new article on a speed camera that is coming to British roads – a new device that can track five different offences at one time. The machine can see whether a driver is speeding, wearing a seatbelt, in possession of valid tax, valid insurance for the vehicle and MOT. The […]
The BBC is reporting that ACPO’s Mick Giannasi has spoken out against the budget cuts in relation to speed cameras, with his suggestion being that this action could well put lives at risk, at the expense of saving money. I’m very much in favour of following the evidence on this one – a life is […]
The Mail Online has a followup article concerning the shut-down of speed cameras due to the need for the coalition to save money in as many ways as they can, in order to reduce the national debt. The question of course remains exactly how this will impact on road safety – one can only hope […]
£38 million has been cut from the UK’s road safety budget – and guess what costs money to maintain and upkeep? Yes, those rather expensive GATSO cameras. So, I guess this is the point at which we’ll start to see an answer to the argument as to whether the much maligned ‘safety measure’ actually keeps […]
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 […]