Q7. Safety cameras do not divert police officers from investigating other crimes – just the opposite. The technology frees up more officers to focus on other crime prevention and detection duties, rather than be diverted to enforce speed limits.
Anyone who breaks the speed limit is breaking the law, committing a criminal offence and putting their own life, and that of other road users, at risk.
Between January 2002 and September 2003, Northumbria Police attended 564 fatal and serious injury road traffic collisions – in 65 of these the major factor was excessive speed.
In the last year there were nearly three times as many deaths on the roads than murders. Excessive and inappropriate speed is not a victimless crime. |
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