Hate to pick you up on grammar, but the headline should be either "Huge Accident Reduction Attributed to Speed Cameras" (preferably) or "Speed Cameras Attributed for Huge Accident Reduction".

No mention of regression to the mean in the article, I see.

Philip

Some cameras are in the right place.

What does 75% reduction mean? There were 4 KSIs then they put a camera in and now there has been 1?

I think people are getting more impatient and frustrated and there is more speeding, but in my area of suburbia it is more in short bursts from one hold-up to another. There is a blind double bend near me, cars roar round it; I don't ever expect to see a camera put up there, unless the worst does happen.


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No. There were 1588 before and now 397.
23,000 speeding x£60 = £1.38M. Surely thay can afford a few more cams, especially seeing how damn good they are at preventing accidents. And at £1.5M saved for every fatal saved, loadsamoney for new cams gto generate even more money and save loadsalives. Or perhaps they are not, and the figures presented to us are 'smoke and mirror' generated.

There was some researched published this week that seemed to indicate that people have become slightly less honest than older generations. There was a range of behaviours, but one of them was that people seemed more likely to break speed limits.

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Point of order Mr Chairman...

There is absolutely no correlation between "honesty" and breaking speed limits (or a lot of other laws).

A complete anarchist can be very honest and your average banker may be very law-abiding, but "honesty" is not a word we tend to associate with them any more!

I suspect people are breaking speed limits more for a whole load of other reasons, possibly that they simply disagree with the way they are implemented.

A stretch of road through fields near me crosses the dividing line between two local authorities, and both are able to set their own speed limits.
A few years ago, both sections were de-restricted (i.e. 60mph for a single carriageway).

Then one council reduced their section to 40, and have recently reduced it further to 30.

Cross the invisible barrier and suddenly it's "safe" to drive at 60 again.

Makes no sense at all, other than it being the different policies of the two councils; and it's greater understanding of that sort of thing which makes people more likely to ignore certain rules and regulations.

"Settling in nicely" ;-)

Well you can read it here.

It's more of a psychometric/frequency test not observational. My own view is the world functions on the basis of honesty, and anything that erodes it makes life worse. Bankers and politicians have done a lot of harm recently.

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Ah well... I'm in the 27.16% who are "Relaxed about breaking rules" category.

"Settling in nicely" ;-)

I'm with the 44%, as you'd expect... I'm rather pleased [and surprised] it is such a high proportion.

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