Sunday, June 24, 2007
'Scrap Speed Cameras Week' starts Today
SCRAP SPEED CAMERAS WEEK' in the UK will be launched today, Sunday 24th June.
"We're launching the Week for one reason and one reason only. Speed cameras are making road safety worse," says organiser, Paul Smith of SafeSpeed.org.uk. "We absolutely must get rid of them to refocus road safety efforts on the things that matter - not the things that are easy to measure."
"Speed cameras have only been supported by dodgy statistics, wishful thinking and false assumptions. They have failed to make our roads safer and now they must go."
Petition
The site has a petition which closes on 26 June and which will then be handed to 10 Downing Street.
Since setting up Safe Speed in 2001, Paul Smith (52) an advanced driver and road safety enthusiast, and a professional engineer of 25-years UK experience, has carried out over 22,000-hours working on the campaign. Well over 6,000 of those hours have been spent researching the overall effects of speed camera policy on UK road safety.
In addition to those 22,000 hours, Paul has funded to campaign to the tune of £10,000.
"We believe that this is more work in more detail than anything carried out by any other organisation."
His conclusion is that overall speed cameras make our roads more dangerous.
He has identified and reported a number of major flaws and false assumptions in the claims made for speed cameras, and the whole "speed kills" system of road safety.
"The inescapable conclusion is that we should urgently return to the excellent road safety policies that gave us in the UK the safest roads in the World in the first place. Far from saving lives, speed cameras are a dangerous distraction."
Safe Speed does not campaign against speed limits or appropriate enforcement of motoring laws, but argues vigorously that automated speed enforcement is neither safe nor appropriate.
Safe Speed is very slimly funded by voluntary contributions to the web site.
DATED: 24.06.07
FEED: AW
"We're launching the Week for one reason and one reason only. Speed cameras are making road safety worse," says organiser, Paul Smith of SafeSpeed.org.uk. "We absolutely must get rid of them to refocus road safety efforts on the things that matter - not the things that are easy to measure."
"Speed cameras have only been supported by dodgy statistics, wishful thinking and false assumptions. They have failed to make our roads safer and now they must go."
Petition
The site has a petition which closes on 26 June and which will then be handed to 10 Downing Street.
Since setting up Safe Speed in 2001, Paul Smith (52) an advanced driver and road safety enthusiast, and a professional engineer of 25-years UK experience, has carried out over 22,000-hours working on the campaign. Well over 6,000 of those hours have been spent researching the overall effects of speed camera policy on UK road safety.
In addition to those 22,000 hours, Paul has funded to campaign to the tune of £10,000.
"We believe that this is more work in more detail than anything carried out by any other organisation."
His conclusion is that overall speed cameras make our roads more dangerous.
He has identified and reported a number of major flaws and false assumptions in the claims made for speed cameras, and the whole "speed kills" system of road safety.
"The inescapable conclusion is that we should urgently return to the excellent road safety policies that gave us in the UK the safest roads in the World in the first place. Far from saving lives, speed cameras are a dangerous distraction."
Safe Speed does not campaign against speed limits or appropriate enforcement of motoring laws, but argues vigorously that automated speed enforcement is neither safe nor appropriate.
Safe Speed is very slimly funded by voluntary contributions to the web site.
DATED: 24.06.07
FEED: AW
