12 Million Scammed.....

[catso]

Title says it all......

www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/17709511?version=1


Speed cameras catch 12 million motorists

By David Williams Motoring Editor, Evening Standard
5 April 2005

More than 12 million motorists have been caught by speed cameras in Britain, new figures reveal. They have paid at least £700million in fines since cameras first came into use in 1992.

More than half the offences involved were logged since 2002, underlining a dramatic rise in the use of what now number about 6,500 "spy" devices.

Today the Safe Speed Road Safety Campaign, which compiled the figures, said they would outrage motorists.

Only 290 drivers were caught by cameras back in 1992 - and fined £60 with three points on their licences - as against around 3.6million last year. Safe Speed predicted that, with more cameras activated each month, the rate of penalties will soon soar again.

Paul Smith, the campaign's founder, said most drivers caught since 1992 were "normal, responsible motorists driving just a few miles an hour over the speed limit". By contrast, illegal drivers with uninsured, unregistered cars were seldom caught.

"Cameras do not work," Mr Smith said. "Why else, when roads, cars and hospital treatment are getting better, did road deaths go up by 2.5 per cent in 2003?"

Safe Speed compiled the figures using official statistics which run up to 2002 and by extrapolating data on speed cameras erected since then.

The RAC Foundation said motorists would be aggrieved at a "king's ransom" in fines. "They haven't achieved the reductions in death and injury we expected," said spokesman Kevin Delaney.

But Mary Williams, of safety organisation Brake, insisted cameras do work - highlighting a government survey showing deaths and serious injuries were cut by 40 per cent at camera sites.

[puggit]

Oh - Mary Williams

It was 35% last time

And from my study of cameras in Reading, it was 0%.

So go stuff yourself up your own backside.

Is that a death threat?

[DeltaFox]

She is so godammed dumb that woman.
Next time she gets a cold i want to be her doctor. Ill prescribe castor oil 25 times a day in the hope it may cure her affliction.
But ill bet it wont, cos like cameras, castor oil would be the wrong treatment for the symptoms!!! STUPID IGNORANT FOOL!!!!

[james_j]

That woman's a fool for sure.

But this is why they keep at it:

"...They have paid at least £700million in fines since cameras first came into use in 1992..."

QED.

[DeltaFox]

Yeah drivers have paid 700 million...guess how many lives the scammers saved in the same period? NONE! Theyve COST a few though!

Frigging scum deserve a public whipping at the very least for their theft, and far worse for the rest of their activities.

[JoolzB]

Surely they should be giving drivers the money back for gaining money under false pretencies.

[deva link]

I read the other day that it's starting to become a problem recruiting and retaining magistrates as they all amass points.

[boosted ls1]

I wonder if we can claim the fines money back after cases have been heard at the ECHR?

Boosted.