CHESHIRE SAFETY CAMERAS HAILED A SUCCESS
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CHESHIRE SAFETY CAMERAS HAILED A SUCCESS
Its official, cameras help reduce collisions, say road safety experts.
Cheshire Safety Camera Partnership publishes its third annual report* today, as part of its yearly review of camera operation on roads in Cheshire, Halton and Warrington. Casting doubt over camera critics, the report reveals the effectiveness of speed and red-light enforcement at identified and government approved road collision hot spots. It states:
• 292 fewer collisions at camera sites (36% reduction)
• 190 fewer people killed or seriously injured at camera sites (58% reduction)
• An average speed reduction of 3.9 mph per camera site
• 45, 679 Notices of Intended Prosecution (NIP) were issued with £1.995 million paid in fine revenue** and £1.902 claimed back in legitimate costs from partners of the scheme. Any surplus money is given back to the treasury.
• 86%*** support the use of safety cameras as a way of reducing road casualties
Assistant Chief Constable David Baines, of Cheshire Police, comments on the results:
“These results are significant and strongly indicate the positive effect safety cameras are having at collision hot spots. The use of camera technology in road safety will continue to protect road users from injury and the wider community from unnecessary pain and heartache. All the partners involved in this scheme are committed to driving down road death and injury”
Lee Murphy, Project Manager for the Cheshire Safety Camera Partnership, explains why speed and red light cameras are here to stay:
“Safety cameras are a small but important part of the wider road safety strategy. Cameras are slowing drivers down and as a result we are seeing fewer collisions and of those we are not stopping, we are seeing a reduction in their severity.
There are still however far too many people getting hurt on our roads. One preventable road death is one too many - we will not tolerate it and neither should the people of Cheshire. Every road user has the right to feel safe but to achieve this everyone needs to play their part.
We will continue in our enforcement duties at collision hot spots and work closely with local authority road safety teams to educate motorists on the dangers of excessive and inappropriate speed.”
Anyone wishing to read the annual report in full can download it from here
ENDS
Notes to Editors:
*The results are based on a comparison of road casualties at sites over the 3 year period in which the sites were selected against (1998-2000) with the 3 year period after the scheme has been running (2003-06).
** Financial information is subject to audit.
*** Cheshire Community Survey
Further quotations:
Cheshire County Council:
Richard Nickson, Chief Road Safety Engineer, explains why cameras are a valuable tool in tackling road safety issues on Cheshire’s roads:
"Reducing your speed could save lives. Too many of us continue to ignore this advice and drive at excessive and inappropriate speeds, often with fatal consequences. Safety cameras are necessary to enforce speed limits and red lights and it is really good news that they continue to save lives and prevent further misery from occurring on Cheshire's roads.
Cheshire County Council is committed to continuing working with its partners to reduce preventable death and injury."
Halton Borough Council:
Phil Cornthwaite, Divisional Manager for Transportation, said:
“These results confirm the safety benefits that the Partnership brings to road users in Halton. Quite apart from the immediate casualty reductions, the project is also helping to raise awareness of the implications of excessive speed, which is increasingly seen as being unacceptable and irresponsible”.
Warrington Borough Council:
Phil Johnson, Head of Service for Transportation, said:
"I welcome the results on behalf of Warrington Borough Council which confirm the saving in lives and serious injury on the roads throughout the area. The Council remains firmly committed to its support for the partnership which targets enforcement activity where casualties are actually occurring. The work of the partnership in Warrington is helping the Council to achieve the casualty reduction targets which it has set in its Corporate Plan.
Enforcement unfortunately remains necessary as some drivers continue to drive at inappropriate speed for the prevailing road conditions.
I would take this opportunity to again urge all drivers and other road users to be constantly aware and focus their full attention whilst using the roads in Warrington. The consequences of failing to do so we have had to live with for far too long."
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service:
Chris Turnock, Deputy Chief Fire Officer:
“Over the last 12 months, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service, attended more road traffic collisions than house fires, and during that period rescued six times as many people from road collisions than from fires. The majority of these collisions and resultant entrapments are attributed to speed. This trend cannot be sustained and safety cameras play their part in reducing speed at known collision spots and as such, provide a valuable tool in our armory of approaches to reducing those killed and seriously injured on the road.”
The aims of the camera partnership:
The Partnership is doing all they can to reduce vehicle speeds at collision hot spots with the view of reducing the number of people Killed or Seriously Injured.
Safety Cameras are:
• painted yellow to make them as visible as possible
• are signed in advance
• are located at sites where they are improving road safety, and
• details of their locations can be found here
Government targets:
In 2000, the government set casualty reduction targets for road traffic collisions by the year 2010 (against an average for 1994-98). Camera partnerships were established to form part of the wider road safety strategy to see
• a 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured
• a 50% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured
• a 10% reduction in the slight casualty rate
Cheshire Safety Camera Partnership aims to support the government's targets through reducing the number of people Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) in traffic collisions on Cheshire, Halton and Warrington's roads.
Engineering, Education and Speed Enforcement are the tools we use to improve drivers' compliance with speed limits and increase understanding of the dangers/consequences of excessive speeding. Every driver has the potential to make a difference by simply observing speed limits and driving appropriately to the prevailing road conditions. (sic)
propoganda from the local press
Its official, cameras help reduce collisions, say road safety experts.
Cheshire Safety Camera Partnership publishes its third annual report* today, as part of its yearly review of camera operation on roads in Cheshire, Halton and Warrington. Casting doubt over camera critics, the report reveals the effectiveness of speed and red-light enforcement at identified and government approved road collision hot spots. It states:
• 292 fewer collisions at camera sites (36% reduction)
• 190 fewer people killed or seriously injured at camera sites (58% reduction)
• An average speed reduction of 3.9 mph per camera site
• 45, 679 Notices of Intended Prosecution (NIP) were issued with £1.995 million paid in fine revenue** and £1.902 claimed back in legitimate costs from partners of the scheme. Any surplus money is given back to the treasury.
• 86%*** support the use of safety cameras as a way of reducing road casualties
Assistant Chief Constable David Baines, of Cheshire Police, comments on the results:
“These results are significant and strongly indicate the positive effect safety cameras are having at collision hot spots. The use of camera technology in road safety will continue to protect road users from injury and the wider community from unnecessary pain and heartache. All the partners involved in this scheme are committed to driving down road death and injury”
Lee Murphy, Project Manager for the Cheshire Safety Camera Partnership, explains why speed and red light cameras are here to stay:
“Safety cameras are a small but important part of the wider road safety strategy. Cameras are slowing drivers down and as a result we are seeing fewer collisions and of those we are not stopping, we are seeing a reduction in their severity.
There are still however far too many people getting hurt on our roads. One preventable road death is one too many - we will not tolerate it and neither should the people of Cheshire. Every road user has the right to feel safe but to achieve this everyone needs to play their part.
We will continue in our enforcement duties at collision hot spots and work closely with local authority road safety teams to educate motorists on the dangers of excessive and inappropriate speed.”
Anyone wishing to read the annual report in full can download it from here
ENDS
Notes to Editors:
*The results are based on a comparison of road casualties at sites over the 3 year period in which the sites were selected against (1998-2000) with the 3 year period after the scheme has been running (2003-06).
** Financial information is subject to audit.
*** Cheshire Community Survey
Further quotations:
Cheshire County Council:
Richard Nickson, Chief Road Safety Engineer, explains why cameras are a valuable tool in tackling road safety issues on Cheshire’s roads:
"Reducing your speed could save lives. Too many of us continue to ignore this advice and drive at excessive and inappropriate speeds, often with fatal consequences. Safety cameras are necessary to enforce speed limits and red lights and it is really good news that they continue to save lives and prevent further misery from occurring on Cheshire's roads.
Cheshire County Council is committed to continuing working with its partners to reduce preventable death and injury."
Halton Borough Council:
Phil Cornthwaite, Divisional Manager for Transportation, said:
“These results confirm the safety benefits that the Partnership brings to road users in Halton. Quite apart from the immediate casualty reductions, the project is also helping to raise awareness of the implications of excessive speed, which is increasingly seen as being unacceptable and irresponsible”.
Warrington Borough Council:
Phil Johnson, Head of Service for Transportation, said:
"I welcome the results on behalf of Warrington Borough Council which confirm the saving in lives and serious injury on the roads throughout the area. The Council remains firmly committed to its support for the partnership which targets enforcement activity where casualties are actually occurring. The work of the partnership in Warrington is helping the Council to achieve the casualty reduction targets which it has set in its Corporate Plan.
Enforcement unfortunately remains necessary as some drivers continue to drive at inappropriate speed for the prevailing road conditions.
I would take this opportunity to again urge all drivers and other road users to be constantly aware and focus their full attention whilst using the roads in Warrington. The consequences of failing to do so we have had to live with for far too long."
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service:
Chris Turnock, Deputy Chief Fire Officer:
“Over the last 12 months, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service, attended more road traffic collisions than house fires, and during that period rescued six times as many people from road collisions than from fires. The majority of these collisions and resultant entrapments are attributed to speed. This trend cannot be sustained and safety cameras play their part in reducing speed at known collision spots and as such, provide a valuable tool in our armory of approaches to reducing those killed and seriously injured on the road.”
The aims of the camera partnership:
The Partnership is doing all they can to reduce vehicle speeds at collision hot spots with the view of reducing the number of people Killed or Seriously Injured.
Safety Cameras are:
• painted yellow to make them as visible as possible
• are signed in advance
• are located at sites where they are improving road safety, and
• details of their locations can be found here
Government targets:
In 2000, the government set casualty reduction targets for road traffic collisions by the year 2010 (against an average for 1994-98). Camera partnerships were established to form part of the wider road safety strategy to see
• a 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured
• a 50% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured
• a 10% reduction in the slight casualty rate
Cheshire Safety Camera Partnership aims to support the government's targets through reducing the number of people Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) in traffic collisions on Cheshire, Halton and Warrington's roads.
Engineering, Education and Speed Enforcement are the tools we use to improve drivers' compliance with speed limits and increase understanding of the dangers/consequences of excessive speeding. Every driver has the potential to make a difference by simply observing speed limits and driving appropriately to the prevailing road conditions. (sic)
propoganda from the local press
Boosted LS1 said:
I hate the word Partnership. Seems to be springing up all over the place, so very fashionable amongst new labia supporters as a bonding tool. They need group support, bless.
Boosted.
Boosted.
They need a petrol filled radial remould round their lying necks morelike.....Not a death threat mary love...go on,off to bed now...
One year's data 'proves' absolutely nothing.
Not least when you can't trust the data anyway.
The pro-camera lobby, and a lot of the safety partnerships, deliberately misquote the statistics to try and mislead people to try and justify their position.
And these statistics adopted by certain forces show a woolly area regarding the proximity of speed cameras. Some statistics are taken from an area 20 metres from a camera and others from a two-kilometre radius.
The speed cameras issue is not a point of principle, it is a fact that they are pointless.
The next year's stats should be equally interesting.
Not least when you can't trust the data anyway.
Paul Garvin as Chief Constable of Durham said:
The pro-camera lobby, and a lot of the safety partnerships, deliberately misquote the statistics to try and mislead people to try and justify their position.
And these statistics adopted by certain forces show a woolly area regarding the proximity of speed cameras. Some statistics are taken from an area 20 metres from a camera and others from a two-kilometre radius.
The speed cameras issue is not a point of principle, it is a fact that they are pointless.
The next year's stats should be equally interesting.
Deltafox said:
Boosted LS1 said:
I hate the word Partnership. Seems to be springing up all over the place, so very fashionable amongst new labia supporters as a bonding tool. They need group support, bless.
Boosted.
Boosted.
They need a petrol filled radial remould round their lying necks morelike.....Not a death threat mary love...go on,off to bed now...
DF?
Boosted.
Boosted LS1 said:
Deltafox said:
Boosted LS1 said:
I hate the word Partnership. Seems to be springing up all over the place, so very fashionable amongst new labia supporters as a bonding tool. They need group support, bless.
Boosted.
Boosted.
They need a petrol filled radial remould round their lying necks morelike.....Not a death threat mary love...go on,off to bed now...
DF?
Boosted.
lol er yes?
LOL. vim fuego said:
• 292 fewer collisions at camera sites (36% reduction)
• 190 fewer people killed or seriously injured at camera sites (58% reduction)
Totally irrelevant; so there were 3 crashes one year and 2 the next on that particular part of the road, I see loads of statistics about how Scameras work (at camera sites) and then the figures show more collisions/deaths in the total area.
I swatted a fly on a particular part of my office wall last week, I'll probably never swat another on the same part of the wall - does that mean my fly problem has gone? what a load of bollox......
a load of politically correct, vindictive, pencil-necked, non-job, 'do-good', self-serving to55ers - like I said, a load of bollox...... 
g_attrill said:
vim fuego said:
*The results are based on a comparison of road casualties at sites over the 3 year period in which the sites were selected against (1998-2000) with the 3 year period after the scheme has been running (2003-06).
Ok... and what happened at those sites in 2001/02 then?
I'd like to know too, anyone want to put in an FOIA request for this info?
Cheshire police , the same force which in the last year has had two armed robberies at jewellery shops , one in Macclesfield 100 yards from the police station which took them 45 minutes to respond to, and another recently in Alderly Edge where despite having intelligence about the raid their only response was to park an empty patrol car round the corner !!!
.....oh sorry, catching criminals doesn't make any money
.....oh sorry, catching criminals doesn't make any money
Und on Traffic Cops "CHESHIRE BBC PROG) .. our intrepid heroes said on taped interviews that
their fatals had increased since they reduced the trapol department to meagrest staffing levels as they are not nabbing truly drunk, drugged und dangerous drivers.. but scraping up their remains und their victims remains later ..
their fatals had increased since they reduced the trapol department to meagrest staffing levels as they are not nabbing truly drunk, drugged und dangerous drivers.. but scraping up their remains und their victims remains later ..
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