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I'm not sure if this has been covered or not, but with Dr Ladyman's & the Government's rhetoric on Speed Cameras saving 50 lives a year, are there any "official" figures stating how many lives are lost per year, due to them? Either by drivers not concentrating on the road & hitting other vehicles, hitting them, etc..

(Assuming that is even true) 50 lives a year, how pathetic.

Think! how many lives could have been saved investing in other more worthy schemes, UK or third world...

Quite. Total speeding fines by camera are over £1 billion.

DfT are saying 100 lives per year based on 'at camera sites' figures before regression to the mean (RTTM) correction. (Based on 42% reduction at speed camera sites, and about 240 deaths per year 'before' at speed camera sites. 240*.42 = 100)

With RTTM correction (50%) (240*.5= 120) I believe that the true figure is an INCREASE of about 20 deaths (100-120) at speed camera sites and 1,200 elsewhere due to side effects.

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