1) We challenged the government to reduce speed camera fines down to £5. This would have proved that they were not installing cameras simply for the money.
Location: (
Safe Speed Main Page)
Date issued: 2001
Response: none
2) We challenged all visitors to the web site to provide data or research supporting the idea that a significant proportion of road accidents were caused by vehicles exceeding a speed limit.
Location: (
Safe Speed Front Page)
Date issued: 30th September 2002
Name: "Statistics Challenge"
Response: useless
3) We challenged all visitors to the web site to provide data or research supporting the idea that "speed cameras save lives".
Location: (
Safe Speed Front Page)
Date issued: 18th June 2003
Name: "Statistics Challenge II"
Response: useless
4) We issued an open challenge to speed camera proponents to meet us for a public debate.
Location: (
Safe Speed Press release PR104)
Date issued: 17th December 2003
Added to web site: 27th January 2004
Name: "Safe Speed demands hard facts in road safety and issues a serious challenge"
Response: nil
Distribution: 700+ Journalists and editors connected with motoring issues
In addition to these public challenges, we have also challenged a number of key officials to answer questions about road safety in the UK in writing. See the "Letters" links from "Quick Navigation" on the (
Safe Speed Front Page) Not one of these published letters has received a satisfactory response.