You'll all know the story about Craig Moore.
PR352: Craig Moore: Hero or villain?
news: for immediate release
Craig Moore has been sentenced today to four months in jail after using
thermite to destroy a speed camera according to reports.
Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign
(
www.safespeed.org.uk) said: "We have got to the point where literally millions
of motorists wish they had the 'guts' to destroy speed cameras. Some will
regard Craig Moore as a hero or a freedom fighter. This is symptomatic of a
national road safety policy that ran off the rails years ago. The speed camera
programme is now a runaway gravy train, and it must be stopped."
"Far from improving road safety, speed cameras have made matters much worse,
leading to road deaths being one third higher now than anyone would have
predicted before cameras were installed."
"Safe Speed certainly does not condone camera vandalism, but we come into daily
contact with the extreme frustration experienced by motorists that ultimately
causes it."
"Speed camera vandalism is reaching epidemic proportions, and the only
solution is to scrap the cameras. Apart from their total failure to deliver
improved road safety, they push good people outside of the law every day of the
week."
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Notes for editors
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BBC news website story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 320092.stm
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I was on BBC Radio Yorkshire today for 45 minutes while they ran a 'Hero or Villian' text poll. 70% of the public texted 'Hero'.
What do you think?