A Road safety expert bodly states that a crackdown on speeding is NOT the answer to reducing the road toll in Australia.
The vice-president of safety development for Mercedes-Benz, Ulrich Mellinghoff, says crash-avoidance systems, better roads and more roundabouts would do more to cut the road toll than tougher speeding laws.
The approach is in direct contrast [...]
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Posted in Queensland on Mar 1st, 2010
Queensland’s Police Union president Ian Leavers questions whether an increase in the number of speed cameras is anything more than a revenue-raising exercise.
At last – someone else is finally stepping up and calling the speed camera program for what it is…collecting more state revenue under a masquerade of road safety.
Last year police clocked up 70,000 [...]
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Posted in South Australia, Speeding Fines on Feb 3rd, 2010
A lawyer for independent MP Bob Such has told Adelaide Magistrates Court he wants a hand-held laser made available for independent testing to verify if they are capable of giving incorrect speed readings.
Mr Such is on trial charged with speeding after a motorbike patrol police officer used a hand-held laser gun to clock him at [...]
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Posted in Speed Cameras, UK on Jan 23rd, 2010
A man from Nottingham has been caught ‘driving’ at 0 km/h by a speed camera not once but twice.
Jeff Buck, aged 55, has received two speeding fines in the post and letters of intended prosection for the offences.
His parked car had been snapped by a speed camera on his street, apparently as other cars sped [...]
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Posted in USA on Jan 20th, 2010
The company that runs speed cameras on Arizona’s highways is behind a petition designed to change the way violators are served with tickets so more of them get paid, The Associated Press has learned.
The petition, filed with the Arizona Supreme Court on Jan. 8, does not mention the company — Scottsdale-based Redflex — or Quarles [...]
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