DRIVERS are now being told when the district's only speed cameras are active after safety chiefs said they wanted to cut accidents not snare speeders.

Information on when the two mobile cameras, installed last month on the A456 in Blakedown, are in use will be posted about a week in advance on the Safety Camera Partnership's website.

Last year a vehicle was clocked driving at 129 mph through the village - 99 mph above the speed limit.

The cameras are activated when visited by inspectors and the website will let drivers know the dates they will be switched on.

Partnership spokeswoman Heather Mead said: "We are doing this because the purpose of installing these additional cameras is to dissuade drivers from exceeding speed limits and to reduce the number of people killed or injured at a particular site, not to catch them speeding."

Mrs Mead added the partnership, which operates 122 cameras across the West Mercia police area, could not constantly visit all the sites.

"That's why we're being so open about where we're going to be," she said.

Some 73 per cent of drivers ignore the speed limit in Blakedown and in the last three years five people have been killed or seriously injured and another 10 slightly injured in the village.

The partnership, which is independent of the police, aims to cuts deaths and serious injuries around cameras by 30 per cent.

Further information is at www.speedaware.org.uk