Its about time! it has take five of my friends to die on that road for something to be done about it!

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Unless it can be shown that a speed camera would have prevented any of these tragic deaths and injuries there is no reason to suppose installing a camera will prevent future crashes.
And, having researched this subject for two years, including extensive ongoing correspondence with the West Mercia “Safer Roads” (sic) Partnership, I can confirm that neither they or ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD can provide a credible explanation of how a camera could prevent a collision or casualty – either an incident that has happened or an imaginary scenario.
The incident rate will fall on the A495 because it has reached an unusually high frequency, but that reduction will be due to statistics and long term trends. The cameras cannot influence it. There is more evidence of cameras contributing to deaths than preventing them.

Speed cameras are a con and a fraud and make no positive contribution to road safety. That’s not what the camera partnerships want you to believe but I have accumulated extensive evidence that that is the case.

The cameras must be decommissioned and the partnerships broken up before they do any more damage and waste any more public money.

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Hi Becky Farmer.

You said

“and over-take in stupid places so putting the speed cameras in place will slow people down (so less over taking)”

Can you tell me how cameras will stop “overtaking in stupid places” ??

I think what you are ACTUALLY saying here is:

It isn’t the “speed” that’s the problem, its the standard of driving !! – i.e poor observation and negotiation of hazards
(poor ovetaking in this case)

As you say, you are 20 years old, and that means at most you only have 2-3 years of driving experience. I presume also that the people you mention were also of a similar age?

I have 44+ years of driving experience, and well over 880,000 miles travelled.
I can tell you that in every instance where I have encountered problems caused by other drivers, it has always been due to lack of observation, positioning, bad overtaking, and general low standard of driving.

By contrast in my experience, the LACK of speed is often a cause of problems. For example:

On the open road, the driver happily cruising along in his or her own little world at well below the national speed limit oblivious to the trail of frustrated drivers behind, and.. sooner or later, one or more of them, in sheer frustration overtakes, maybe in the wrong place at the wrong time. So who’s really to blame?

Again, in my experience, such “slower” drivers generally make “poor or slow progress” on their journeys, and almost always are those that cause most problems and hindrance to other road users.

By contrast, the experienced driver who “gets a move on” and uses proper observation and regard for hazards as they occur, causes no hindrance to other road users – and is safer overall. (And I DON’T mean they exceed speed limits!!)

So – how do cameras help all this??

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Becky, how will a scamera stop people overtaking in stupid places? Moreover, a needless speed limit reduction, where most drivers can see that it is poorly applied, will only cause frustration. And what this country’s roads do not need are more frustrated drivers.

Further, it’s the 17-25 age group who seem to crash the most. A scamera is not going to stop youthful recklessness, and it’s that age group that will continue to seek roadside ditches no matter how many roadside cash collectors there are. Your faith in these speed cameras, Becky, is flawed and misguided.

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