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PostPosted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 14:07 
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N Roper wrote:
Be honest about why cameras are back on

I wrote some time ago suggesting that the speed cameras in Oxford were being turned on by the police purely for the force’s financial benefit and not for safety reasons.

I drive daily and I have no objection to the cameras being turned on again; if people speed and get caught, so be it.

But what really upsets me is that the police seem to think the motoring public are not too bright, as Supt Rob Povey tells us the reason they are being turned back on is because there has been a 50 per cent increase in deaths on Oxfordshire’s roads since they were turned off.

He must be a clairvoyant, because when it was announced last year that they were to be turned back on again the statistics he is now quoting were not available to him.

If they were that concerned, why did the force not switch them on straight away?

Perhaps it did not do so, as it did not have the finance in place at that time and had to wait for the commencement of the new financial year?

I predicted there would be an increase in the cost of attending a speed awareness course and this has been the case.

We are now informed that the fee for such courses is to rise from £60 to £95. I wonder what the total receipts from these will be by April 2012?

I am of the opinion that speed awareness courses are of value proving they are only offered to first offenders – those who have no penalty points whatsoever.

Drivers with nine points would obviously accept attendance at a course rather than get three more points and face a ban, yet these are the drivers who are most likely to cause an accident and injury.

Bring back the cameras by all means, but please cut out the waffle.
Norman V Roper, Stow Avenue, Witney
what evidence is there that correlates those with points causing more road incidents ?
We have long predicted that courses will be expanded at entry and the number and type on offer and this is what is beginning to happen....
It is becoming evident to the 'man in the street' that the courses are there to retain the cameras but with all the propaganda drummed into people some believe it still sounds good ! After all isn't a course and education meant to be good? I question what is being taught and by whom and who is regulating this anyway ? Anyone can see that it is now purely for profits by the Speed Camera Industry and has left road safety aside to satisfy it's survival. An utterly shameful virus, as the real road safety initiatives and concepts that will work are totally ignored and then there is no money to implement them either.

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