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A Plague on Your Speed Cameras
Mr John Maxwell the chairman of the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has stated that the confidence of BritainТs motorists is being severely affected by the СplagueТ of speeding cameras dotted around our road system and the non-discriminatory penalties issued to all who fail the speed test by one or thirty miles per hour.
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He added that for too many car drivers the apparent rationale for the speed cameras remained revenue creation for the exchequer and not a means of reducing accidents and deaths on our roads. For speed limits to be respected and obeyed there has to be a rational and reasonable approach to setting the limits for any given stretch of road and respected system of penalties for breeching them. It may, for instance, be possible to raise speed limits where it is sensible to do so, not arbitrarily reduce on all stretches of the same class of road.
IAM welcomed the Road Safety Minister, Dr Stephen LadymanТs, new Road Safety Bill as an opportunity for the minister to demonstrate that the car driver and other road users should be partners in solving the problems on our roads not as the problem itself. Especially welcomed is the proposal that fines imposed under speeding camera violations should be adjusted dependant on the amount of the excess speed, so that minimal infringement would not mean the full standard penalty.
Mr John Maxwell the chairman of the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has stated that the confidence of BritainТs motorists is being severely affected by the СplagueТ of speeding cameras dotted around our road system and the non-discriminatory penalties issued to all who fail the speed test by one or thirty miles per hour.
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He added that for too many car drivers the apparent rationale for the speed cameras remained revenue creation for the exchequer and not a means of reducing accidents and deaths on our roads. For speed limits to be respected and obeyed there has to be a rational and reasonable approach to setting the limits for any given stretch of road and respected system of penalties for breeching them. It may, for instance, be possible to raise speed limits where it is sensible to do so, not arbitrarily reduce on all stretches of the same class of road.
IAM welcomed the Road Safety Minister, Dr Stephen LadymanТs, new Road Safety Bill as an opportunity for the minister to demonstrate that the car driver and other road users should be partners in solving the problems on our roads not as the problem itself. Especially welcomed is the proposal that fines imposed under speeding camera violations should be adjusted dependant on the amount of the excess speed, so that minimal infringement would not mean the full standard penalty.
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