"CAN you see the speed camera?" (Worcester News, P1, September 24). The answer is only just and not if travelling at 30mph and a stranger to the city. The camera needs moving on two counts.

One, it doesn't comply with the rule that cameras are not to be hidden. Two, it is in a dangerous position if a driver has to give more attention to the speed than to those around them. Imagine a stranger crossing the river bridge and ending in the middle of people changing lanes and others entering the road, all at 30mph in such a short road and on the lookout for a half- hidden camera.

Trevor McAvoy, of the Worcestershire Camera Partnership, states that cameras save lives. This appears to be not the case in North Wales, the place where speed cameras were first tested. Here the death rate has risen by 18.3 per cent. The North Wales Chief Constable is now looking at a driver awareness scheme.

Drivers doing just above the limit can decide either to pay £60 and take a two-hour course on the danger of speed followed by four hours behind the wheel with an advanced driving instructor and no penalty points, or a £60 fine and points.

M SIMPKINS,

Fernhill Heath.