So Warwickshire police will be using mobile cash registers in the form of speed cameras on the A46 between Stratford and Alcester, will they? No doubt they'll be positioned in the same spot, aiming at Alcester-bound traffic.
On the widest, straightest, stretch of road, close to the roundabout where the dual carriageway begins. The spot they currently use for radar gun exercise is the only time policemen are ever evident on this lethal road.
According to Chief Constable Burbeck, and the Warwickshire Casualty Reduction Partnership, speed is the only factor in vehicle accidents on this road and speed cameras save lives. Not in Essex where, in a recent measured period, the number of speed cameras was tripled yet road deaths rose from 54 to 82.
Many other factors are more likely to cause crashes. Speed cameras are another word for 'lazy policing'. That's much easier than putting real policemen in cars out on the road to catch the likes of those drivers who can't see well enough to judge distance and pull out in front of speeding traffic, an almost daily occurrence on that A46.
GRAEME M ROBERTS, Meadow Sweet Road, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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