--- MIME-Version: 1.0 From: me@private Subject: New study: Excessive Speed Enforcement (and Cameras) have Failed X-Sent-From: me@private Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:11:34 -0700 (PDT) X-UIDL: 288faaec3ceb6cfe289a78ab4ca88e4a A new study, released October 15, looks the effect of speed cameras and doubling of speeding violation fines in both Australia and the UK. It finds that these measures, which are catching on in the US, have failed to produce positive results. -- The report finds that the introduction of cameras actually interrupted a downward trend in UK accidents. "If the 1966-93 trend line had continued until 2001 there would have been 825 fewer fatalities in that year than were actually recorded." The difference in trends before and after cameras were introduced is called the 'fatality gap.' -- "…there is an almost perfect linear correlation between the increase in speed camera tickets and the increase in the fatality gap." -- The report's author notes that his findings are consistent with those of a 2000 Canadian report 'Safe Roads, Safe Communities' which found their camera program "had no discernible impact on speed or on the fatal accident rate." British researcher Dr. Alan Buckingham conducted the study which appears in the journal "Policy" of the Centre for Independent Studies in Australia. It's too big to attach, so I put it online for your personal use, if you're interested: http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/buckingham.pdf Richard _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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