Safe Speed for Life - Safety Cameras, Fact or Fiction

Q1	If you drive at a certain speed then the cameras can’t take a photograph.
Q2	I know where all the cameras are so I won’t get caught.
Q3	Driving a few miles over the speed limit doesn’t hurt anyone
Q4	If I put special clear tape over my number plate it can’t be read by the camera
Q5	I’ve no need to worry about cameras – I’ve got a device that warns me if there’s one near by
Q6	If I get a ticket and don’t sign the paperwork, I can’t be prosecuted
Q7	The police should be out catching real criminals, not wasting their time on law-abiding motorists
Q8	There’s no point having cameras working at night when the roads are quiet.

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.