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Cambridgeshire’s speed cameras increase collisions

Julian Peddle Uttoxeter Staffordshire ST14
14 September 2018
The charts produced by Idris Francis show a rise in collisions at sites in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough after speed cameras were installed. The chart on the right depicts fatal and serious collisions (FSCs
The charts produced by Idris Francis show a rise in collisions at sites in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough after speed cameras were installed. The chart on the right depicts fatal and serious collisions (FSCs

 

Cambridgeshire County Council’s agenda for replacing existing wet film speed cameras with digital ones at a cost of £500,000-£600,000 unwittingly reveals that they no more understand their data or how to analyse it than do Transport for London, Hampshire Police (LTT passim and in detail at www.fightbackwithfacts.com/false_claims ).

Accordingly I emailed the council to point out several self-serving errors about camera effectiveness and to provide a copy my results (see figures...

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