from Kodak Capital!
This is the town which has more speed cams than anywhere else - yet dotted around yesterday's local paper are stories such as :
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A woman was seen staggering along after crashing her car - but her mobile phone was found in the wreck and police traced her.
The 23 year old credit controller was charges with careless driving, failing to stop afet an accident and failing to provide a sample and was banned for 18 months and fined £200 plus costs.
Defence claimed she had drunk one shandy at a friend's house and skidded on ice as she approached the roundabout. Defence calimes she was traumatised and panicking about what her father would say abiouyt the damaged car and downed a vodka when she got home
But camera did not detect this or prevent the incident, car was registered to her father and thus they would have traced her despite the phone.
Another story in this same paper talks about a high speed pursuit through Blackpool. This involved a car which turned out to have been stolen from a car drive. The owner reported it - and received a NIP 14 days later - which was cancelled...evenutally.
A further story tells of a 21 year treated for minor injuries after swerving to avoid a pot hole and colliding with a lamp post.
Hmmmm!
Blackpool is a really safe place to drive then....not!
In the Readers' letters (I love the postbags in local papers
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A reader writes about the vandalism which, apparently from the general letters and articles, has been prevalent in the late nigh car parks in the town
He writes
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I find it very strange that I can drive up Devonshire Road early on a Sunday morning and find a van pointing a camera at me. What would it cost to have the police walk around the car parks late at night - instead of standing around in the street of hiding in vans . Just the presence of beat officers keeping things safe would encurage people to come to town and leave their car with some feeling of safety.
Because of incorrect priorites - we are driving people out of town and granting victory to these louts!
Yep - think we'll be giving Blackpoo a miss....
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who posts to the PH site that just one Lancs cop patrols 180 square miles and that the division has been reduced by two thirds over an 8 year period - and we look at increased accident rates, drink driving related accidents proven to be on increase in the camera capital of UK .... and drwa the only logical and real life conclusion... 
cannot say more......er.... do do these .... er ... peer reviewed... err ...stuff .... um ... er.. no one agrees with anyone really ... er .... um .. er.... 