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The new safety camera vans are easily identifiable
Vehicles used by speed camera teams in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear have been given a facelift to make them more visible.
The new livery is part of the safety camera partnership’s aim to ensure it operates fairly and openly, and that vehicles are identifiable.
Cameras can only be situated where there is a history of road accidents over the past three years.
Project leaders have stressed they do not look to catch people out.
The Safe Speed for Life campaign logo has been added to the vans, and a Northumbria Police badge now appears on the doors.‘Slow down’
This is in addition to the words “camera enforcement unit” under a safety camera logo on the doors.
Project manager Ray King said: “We have no interest in hiding our cameras or enforcement vehicles as we want drivers to realise they are in an area which has a collision history, and slow down as a result.
“It is a fact that just a few miles over the limit can make a real difference to whether someone lives or dies.”
The units are situated in areas where at least 20% of drivers are believed to be breaking the speed limit and where there are no other short-term engineering solutions available.
Mr King said: “We do not want to catch motorists. Our aim is reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads by slowing down traffic at known collision hotspots.
“If you keep to the speed limit then you have nothing to worry about.”Very Easy to spot! The orange lights should be seen for miles, wonder whats on the back doors?
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HALF of all motorists caught speeding in West Yorkshire are driving at no more than 8mph above 30mph speed limits, it has been revealed.
Safety experts say they are now trying to re-educate people to stick to the 30mph limit.
The West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership – the group which operates the county’s speed cameras – has started a campaign called The Lamp-post Is Your Friend!
The partnership says that if people are driving in built-up areas with street lighting, the speed limit is always 30mph and people should stick to it.
The limit only rises when people can see small repeater signs on the roadside.
The partnership’s head of communications, Philip Gwynne, said: “About half of all fixed-penalty speeding notices issued in West Yorkshire are for offences of driving at around 36mph, 37mph or 38mph in a 30mph zone.
“This underlines the scale of the challenge faced in encouraging drivers to respect speed limits in urban areas.
“A common complaint from people who’ve received a penalty notice is that there were no signs to show them they were in a 30mph limit.
“The lamp-post campaign reminds motorists that if you’re driving through a built-up area and there are no other speed limit signs, the presence of street lights denotes a 30mph speed limit,” added Mr Gwynne.
“It’s the absence of signs that tells the driver they are in a 30mph area.”
He concluded: “If in doubt, travel at no more than 30mph in built-up areas and you’ll always avoid a speeding fine.”
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Stuart XV16
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