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Facts and Figures
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The Speeding Problem
The annual carnage on the roads in the UK each year is equivalent to 30 average commercial aircraft crashing or a Paddington crash taking place twice each week (Transport 2000) 
According to research conducted by the Department for Transport, excessive speed is a contributory factor in 12% of all injury collisions, 18% where there are serious injuries and 28% of all collisions which result in a fatality.
The economic costs, (including health service costs, social benefits and lost production) of a person seriously injured in a road crash is more than £100,000 and the cost of a person killed is more than £1 million. (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents).
Reducing average speeds on the road network by just 2mph could save 200- 280 lives a year. (Transport Research Laboratory).
Supporting Safety Cameras
An opinion survey conducted in Gloucestershire in 2006, found that 86% of people were concerned by speeding on Gloucestershire's roads and that two-thirds felt that speed cameras were an acceptable way to enforce speed limits on Gloucestershire roads.
A BBC survey conducted in November 2003 found that 75% of people supported cameras and believe they are helping to enforce speed limits.
Safety Camera Partnerships across Britain receive around 10,000 requests for safety cameras from local communities each year. (Transport 2000, 2004)
Safety Cameras are Working
An independent report carried out by University College London for the Department for Transport, published in June 2004, showed that in the 24 areas of the country surveyed:
>> There was a 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSIs) at camera sites, beyond the long-term downward trend;
>> There were 870 fewer KSIs per year, including over 100 fewer deaths;
>> There was a 33% fall in injury accidents- 4030 fewer per year;
>> There was a 35% reduction in pedestrians killed or seriously injured.
>> Average speeds at new sites fell by around 7%
>> Average speeds at urban sites fell by around 8%
>> The number of vehicles speeding at new camera sites dropped by 71%
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