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Road toll could herald more speed cameras
17 October 2006

Yet more speed cameras could hit the streets in response to rising accident figures.
New figures from the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety show deaths and serious injuries on the county's roads rose nearly 3% to 912 in 2005.

That is the highest number since 1999 when there were 996 people killed or seriously injured.

The Partnership insists there are no current plans for new, permanent speed cameras, but they have not ruled out more if the accident figures continue to climb.

Linda Sanderson, communications manager for the Partnership, said: "Installing speed cameras is a last resort, we have always said that.

"But we would consider using fixed camera sites if there was no other method available to reduce speed."

The Partnership say they are continuing to monitor accidents daily and no timetable is in place for the installation of future cameras. If and when cameras are installed, it will depend on accident rates in different parts of the county and if other methods of reducing speed have failed.

The news has provoked anger among community leaders. Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle said: "Does fact that we already have a huge number of speed cameras on our roads mean cameras are not working and putting more cameras is just a way of collecting money and not stopping accidents? Are we not better looking at other measures?"

The Evening Post reported last December there were 293 fixed cameras in Lancashire, 69 mobile speed camera locations and 72 sites of community concern.

That tourniquet on the leg's not working - quick apply one to his neck

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on

Nuts to the casualty rate, so long as they can enforce 'speed' right?

The penny has suddenly dropped.

when she says

The Partnership insists there are no current plans for new, permanent speed cameras, but they have not ruled out more if the accident figures continue to climb.

she gives away the underlying thought process.

The Cameras are a threat and a punishment!!! She may as well say

Unless you lot stop killing each other we'll put more cameras up!!

Strange they say they continue to monitor accidents daily - in an FOI request reply the Pratnership told me they had NO casualty figures (as opposed to there were no casualties ) at my local GATSO since March 2005

The GATSO in question has been loaded almost continuously since June 2006 - if they've no casualty figures why would they do that?

I think the penny, or should that be £60 , has dropped

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That's how Nazi Germany started. They'll be burning books next. (Brian Noble, Wigan coach - updated 20/4/06!!).