Northern Ireland speed cameras prove to be life savers

Edwin Poots, the Environment Minister for the Northern Ireland Assembly has said that the number of people killed or seriously injured at speed cameras sites throughout the provinence has droped by fifty per cent since their introduction.

This statistic compares favourably with those that show that figures where areas not covered by the technology the drop in deaths and serious injury was significanly less. The safety authority RoadSafe say that their aim is to change a mindset where driving at excessive speeds would be deemed as anti social.

According to a spokesperson for RoadSafe: “we do not believe that speed cameras alone reduce crashes or are a substitute for an overt police presence, but strongly support their use in association with well targeted public information campaigns”.

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