You need to get that message across to the so-called Taxpayers' Alliance,
who have been suggesting that speed cameras have increased the number of
casualties:


I suspect the Taxpayer’s Alliance primary objection to speed cameras
is more down to the revenue raising aspects rather than perceptions on
safety.

Anyway, that argument could easily be challenged if more authorities
(as my local authority does) were to take a more lenient line over
minor first offences by offering the option for the driver to attend a
speed awareness course and thus avoid any points or fines.

I have seen at first hand how a local dual carriageway has been
transformed from death valley (the local paramedics term of choice)
into a civilised 50 mph highway thanks entirely to speed cameras.

There can be no denying that for the unsafe roads that now have them
there has been a quite dramatic fall in body count.

However, overall road deaths and injuries statistics do remain
stubbornly high and therefore should raise questions about the
effectiveness of speed cameras that quite possibly, rather like
burglar alarms, could be just moving the problem on elsewhere.

As a driver of many years, I don’t know how other drivers feel but in
recent years, parallel with the spread of the cameras, my perception,
for what it’s worth, has been that driving standards and common
courtesy have gone completely out of the window.

Perhaps it’s just my age but, away from the cameras, never before have
I experienced so much arrogant, selfish and downright dangerous
driving of a sort that routinely passes for being called a motorist
nowadays.

The average stressed out motorists out there seem to behave nowadays
in a way that betrays a great need of (or soon to be in great need of)
of a regular dose of beta-blockers.