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Average speed cameras: a bad approach to road safety

Andrew Fraser, Stirling
11 November 2016
 

I was surprised to see that the article on page 3 of LTT 30 September, ‘Average speed cameras cut crashes [sic] by more than a third’ has been classed ‘ROAD SAFETY’.

This brutal, punitive approach to top speed control may ‘work’ but as sociologists such as Dr Helen Wells have taught us, it remains deeply offensive to most normal people. Giving it the oxygen of publicity may, if it hasn’t already, lead readers to believe that camera enforcement is the...

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