http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeSpeed Quite a short entry (didn't bother including the links).
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SafeSpeed
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
SafeSpeed is a UK based road safety organisation, which campaigns against the current policy in that country of enforcing technical speed limits rigidly as a means of improving road safety.
Founded by Paul Smith, the organisation believes that it is more important to set a Safe Speed for the current conditions. This is very likely most of teh time not the same thing as the speed limit. Smith believes that the UK government's current policy towards speed enforcement is actually making road safety worse by removing drivers' concentration from the road.
External links
SafeSpeed Exposing the great speed camera con trick
Links to Safe Speed, as well Pepipoo and other anti-camera groups, also appear at the bottom of Wikipedia's
speed cameras page. The Swedish one gave me a laugh, but I'm in a toilet humour sort of mood today.
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nearly forgot. The Partnerships have a page too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_Camera_Partnership Quote:
Safety Camera Partnership
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Safety Camera Partnership is a state-sponsored company in the United Kingdom sponsored and supported by the state to encourage accident reduction techniques. The only techniques they use are speed cameras and (in a few cases only) red light cameras. In what many see as a sort of Orwellian new speak, these are referred to as Safety Cameras.
The primary focus of this is on reducing the speed of vehicles, without any consideration for other factors. Indeed, a little known fact is that the Safety Camera Partnerships can only invest money back into the operating costs of cameras, and the only additional safety measures are speed awareness (ie advertising on speed alone) and the installation of new cameras.
Hence the name Safety *Camera* Partnership.
Camera Partnerships, and their reliance on detecting speed above the posted limit as the sole means of reducing accidents, are extremely contraversial. The UK government has recently stopped all partnerships from placing any more cameras until an investigation takes place into their effectiveness.
Supporters say that speed is the cause of about one third of accidents, and reducing speeds is the key to saving lives.
Critics say that accidents have not reduced since 2001 when the partnership scheme started up. They say that inappropriate speed for the conditions is a bigger problem than merely exceeding the technical speed limit, so the cameras do little good. Partnerships are accused of being notorious for abusing statistical anomolies (such as regression to the mean) and using political spin to justify their enforcement.
There is a growing suspicion that the UK speed camera network actually leads to more road deaths and injuries, because the distraction effect of the cameras outweighs any safety benefit from lower speeds. This view is especially held by the road safety group SafeSpeed.
Camera Partnerships are also contraversial because the way they are set up is seen as an abuse of process. The partnerships include local police, prosecutors, and the courts, so justice is seen to be undermined.
External links
SafeSpeed Exposing the great speed camera con trick
Pepipoo.com Helping the motorist get justice
Loved the comment about Orwellian Newspeak. Okay, hands up who put that there.