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Our local evening paper ran an article the other day titled ‘How Drivers Are Losing Control’. It stated that in 2005 road deaths had INCREASED by 4 per cent on the previous year. Interestingly, the top cause of ALL recorded collisions in the county (slight or otherwise) was ‘Failing to Look Properly’. This caused 39 per cent of all accidents.
So, what could be a conclusion? Well, how about this. There are so many static and mobile speed cameras on our roads today that paranoia is beginning to set in. Drivers are now slowing down, not because of the safety factor but because of the fear of getting caught! We are now focusing more attention on our speedometer than we are on the road ahead! Hence Failing to Look Properly.
Don Powell, the county’s Safety Camera Partnership spokesman said: “From our point of view, the most important things for drivers are to stay concentrating on the roads”.
Hmmm. It’s obviously becoming safer to have an accident than it is to break the speed limit!
Paul Smith of the Safe Speed campaign said: “Speed cameras have focused everyone on the wrong safety factor and have proved to be a dangerous distraction. Countless opportunities for life-saving policies have been missed because of speed cameras”.
I couldn’t agree more!

Are you quoting me from your local paper?

In which case, please let me have the name of the paper and the date for our media log.

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Paul Smith
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Evening Telegraph. But smeggy got there first and has posted the article.

Incidently, the headlines on that paper also said that Northants Police Authority have a £6,000,000 shortfall in their budget...Perhaps they should stop paying the Safety Camera Partnership to sit in vans all day.

Thanks folks.

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety