Safe Speed Forums

Am I right when I say that, according to Home Office guidelines, a speed camera can be installed anywhere within 5km of a recent KSI accident site?

So, imagine we have a stretch of NSL dual carriageway bypassing a small town. It's bordered by armcos, wide verges & fences, it's free of any hazards and there has never been an accident on it.

However, 3km away, in the town itself, there is a set of residential roads and a school.

Is it not then in the local council's interests to make these residential roads as dangerous as possible, in order to increase the likelihood of a serious accident that they can then use as justification for a 50mph limit and a revenue-generating camera on the dual carriageway?

I expect that we could find evidence of this practice if we looked hard enough.

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“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.” - H. L. Mencken

That's certainly my understanding of it, although I thought the distance was 2 km. ALso, I believe a suicide from a bridge and a heart attack victim have been used to justify speed cameras.