Campaigner slams Essex mobile speed camera plan
Date: 09 July 2007
A plan to roll out mobile speed cameras in Essex that would affect haulage firms has been slammed by an anti-camera campaigner, the East Anglia Daily Times reports.
Paul Smith of Safe Speed believes that speed cameras are "the wrong medicine" and that they are making matters worse.
He has hit out against a plan to introduce mobile speed cameras on main roads such as the A12 and A120 - used a great deal by couriers and haulage firms - by the Essex Casualty Reduction Board.
"When will our road safety officials finally learn? Speed camera policy has been a disaster based only on false assumptions and dodgy statistics," he said.
"The results have been awful and in Essex alone road deaths are around 30 per year above where they should be. Now they have noticed that the 'medicine' isn't working and they want to double the dose."
Essex County Council's Rosemary Welch claimed that the county is introducing the cameras as part of a broader plan, but Mr Smith was adamant that it was the wrong measure.
"We need to scrap speed cameras and base policies on improving the 'human factors' that lead to crashes," he concluded.
More than 28,000 individuals have signed the Scrap Speed Cameras petition on the 10 Downing Street website, organised by Safe Speed.
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