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Speed camera nets £4.2m in fines

A single speed camera in Nottinghamshire has caught almost 76,000 motorists in five years.

The camera, on the A610, has caught almost a third of the speeding drivers in the county and has resulted in £4.2m in fines.

The Specs "time-over-distance" cameras measures how long it takes to pass between two points on Nuthall Road.

Safety officers say accidents and the number of people injured on the road has halved in three years.

'Not cashing in'

Almost 280,000 motorists have been caught speeding in the county in the past five years - raising £60m in fines.

Alison Richards, from the county's safety camera partnership, said: "We're definitely not cashing in.

"We have to look at driver responsibility first of all. All drivers should know - because they've passed their test - that the road signs indicate that they're coming into a 30mph zone.

"So they should start to think about slowing down before they get to that 30mph speed limit.

"We judge if a speed camera is working by the reduction of casualties at a particular site.

"It is an absolute shame really that we're in the position where cameras are hated so much and that people are paranoid that more cameras are being put up," she said.

"If drivers slowed down and paid more attention on the road we wouldn't have this issue of casualties or collisions and therefore we wouldn't be looking at installing more cameras."

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It had always been my impression that permanent SPECS installations did not tend to be very effective at raising money - that was certainly the experience when they installed them on the Nottingham ring road.

Perhaps they are more lucrative in 30 zones because that speed is so widely exceeded on wide urban main roads (the ring road SPECS sections are 40s).

I've only been along this bit of the A610 once, but I recall it as an S4 road that you wouldn't really want to make a 40 because of the level of development, but where in the absence of cameras traffic would typically be in the 35-38 range.

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