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‘Speed cameras are cash generators’
- 18/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
An overwhelming number of motorists believe that speed cameras are currently being used as cash generators and not as safety cameras. In a poll undertaken by www.motoring.co.uk, 88 per cent of the respondents believe that speed cameras are used by police forces to generate income. This poll comes as a response [...] -
All speed cameras to be yellow
- 16/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Every working speed camera on the strategic road network will be yellow within a year, the government has announced. Ministers ordered a review of speed camera policy on motorways earlier this year and Highways England has today confirmed their plan to increase the visibility of all speed cameras on the [...] -
Support for speed cameras wavers
- 28/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
A national survey by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has shown that although most drivers support speed cameras there are big variations across the country – and Londoners and people in the north-east appear to show higher levels of resistance than most. The survey polled 1,000 drivers of all age groups [...] -
Speed cameras may create bad behaviour
- 27/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Using more than 1 billion miles of driving behaviour data, Wunelli, has revealed the most frequent braking black spots across the UK created by speed cameras, based on motorists braking excessively just before speed cameras to avoid being caught. Around 80% of all the UK speed cameras investigated had hard braking [...] -
High-mileage drivers dismissive of speed cameras
- 28/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
High-mileage drivers are more likely than any other type of road user to think speed cameras have ‘little or no influence’ in reducing the numbers of road casualties in the UK, according to a white paper issued by the Institute of Advanced Motorists’ (IAM) Drive and Survive division. The paper, titled Speed [...]