Why is it the study into Speed cameras and their impact never saw the light of day in the UK?

Question

Is it possibly because they do NOTHING to reduce road deaths AND in fact cause MORE accidents through drivers paying too much attention to their dashboards instead of the road ahead? It MUST have been damning of them otherwise the report would have been published

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=442170&in_page_id=1770

Answer 1

now really did you expect it to be made public everything about the whole fiasco is against human liberty and its just another way of swelling the treasury which must be bursting at the seams with all the tax this government is raking in from so many things its almost every day another tax appears they really are pressing their luck

Answer 2

They are little more than government piggy banks. Yes, they do cause more minor accidents, they claim for a site to be eligible for a fixed camera there has to have been 3 major accidents involving speed, what they do not say is what a major accident is and that it is ALWAYS going to involve speed because at least ONE of the vehicles is MOVING at the time of the accident.

The reason the report never saw the light of day in the UK is that the government hushed it up and did everything as they normally do, slyly and quietly and with more spin than Monty Panesar can manage.

Answer 3

Well spotted Zippy.
I would ask my MP, especially if he/she is a Tory and there might be a question in the house next week. Ask for an Early Day Motion in the first instance, then if there are enough signatures of MP's on it, the Government will have to answer the question in one way or another.

Answer 4

All the reports I've heard of say safety camera's haven't made any difference to deaths and injury's on our roads, but how else would the government be able to raise more money if they did away with them ? They are needed not to slow motorist down, but purely to raise revenue, and if they catch enough of us and we all lose our licence's there will be more room for them on the road, and we will all be travelling on public transport !

Answer 5

Could this report have been binned for political reasons
? Could it be that if they scrapped the camera's then the Government would suffer a massive deficit of easy to collect income the camera's are generating from the soft touch motorist?

Answer 6

you're probably right, if supported the governments stance they would have published it, typically they have brushed it under the carpet as it will make them look like the idiots they are. plus they make too much money to have them removed.

Answer 7

zippy don't you know they were only a revenue making scheme for the government that's all

Answer 8

Tax collectors! thats all they are,