Speeding fines in Avon and Somerset fell by 70% last year

[robinessex]

Yea, at last, prooving what sensible drivers have been saying all along. Poor BRAKE, still ranting and raving, predicting Armageddon.

[_Batty_]

link to the article?

[NWMark]

did the accident rate reduce by a similar amount?

EDIT: no figure released yet. The reduction in fines is due to the removal of speed camera's within the borough it seems.

Edited by NWMark on Tuesday 13th November 14:49

[NWMark]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20308752

Bob Bull said:

Bob Bull, Avon and Somerset co-ordinator for the Association of British Drivers, said speed cameras were a poor system.

"I'm really pleased that they have woken up to the facts," he said.

"In the year to 2012 nationally there has been a 6% drop in the numbers killed [on the roads] - a 3% drop in the number of casualties.

"Cameras never did anything. Education, which is what the police are using in this area, is the way forward. Speed cameras don't do anything."

[Perd Hapley]

"There has been a 70% drop in the number of speeding drivers prosecuted across the Avon and Somerset area since cameras were turned off in March 2011."

"Frankie Hackett, from Brake, said she was worried about going back to "the bad old days"."

"According to the Department for Transport, there were 312 people killed or seriously injured in crashes on Avon and Somerset's roads in 2010.
That fell to 258 in 2011."

[vit4]

Excellent