Speed camera lottery
August 5th, 2010 by Richard Aucock
MOTORISTS face a ‘postcode lottery’ in the policing of British roads, one supplier of GPS speed camera-data says.
A study carried out by RoadPilot found that motorists in Greater London are 100 times more likely to get caught speeding than in the rest of the UK.
16 per cent of Britain’s speed cameras are to be found in the area, more than Scotland, Wales and Ireland combined, the study discovered.
CEO of RoadPilot James Flynn OBE said, ‘It is perhaps to be expected that London, as the UK’s largest city, would have the highest concentration of speed cameras, but the extent of the differences in number of speed cameras around the UK is very surprising.’
However, recent reports of councils ‘switching off’ their cameras will not affect motorists greatly, said Flynn.
Given that more than 56 per cent of all of the nation’s speed cameras monitor 30 mph limits, compared with only 3.6 per cent sited on roads with 70 mph limits, drivers don’t necessarily have to be ‘driving fast’ to risk collecting a fine and licence endorsement points’
Whilst Greater London topped the study, the West Midlands was found to have the second most-tightly enforced speed limits (with 7.4 percent of all UK roads’ cameras), followed by West Yorkshire (6.7 percent), Lancashire (5.7 percent), and Staffordshire (5.0 percent).
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