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Hampshire Police – deaf to criticism of its speed cameras

Idris Francis, Petersfield, Hampshire GU32
04 August 2017
The graph shows trend-adjusted fatal and serious collisions at camera sites relative to year of camera installation (Year 0). Site selection bias caused abnormally high numbers in up to eight years before installation, says Idris Francis
The graph shows trend-adjusted fatal and serious collisions at camera sites relative to year of camera installation (Year 0). Site selection bias caused abnormally high numbers in up to eight years before installation, says Idris Francis

 

In 2011 the DfT instructed speed camera organisations to publish their data, explicitly so that members of the public could judge the effects of cameras for themselves. Hampshire Police finally published data in 2016, though for only 30 fixed cameras. 

Earlier this year, having realised that the data was at last available, I obtained and analysed it and was so horrified by what I found that I emailed the chief constable to point out that her cameras clearly cause more accidents than they...

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