Above-average installations help Essex cut road accidents

20 August 2009

Essex County Council has revealed that serious and fatal accidents have been reduced by two-thirds since the introduction of average-speed cameras on the county’s roads.

The local authority has closely monitored its route-management scheme since its launch in January 2009, and its figures show an overall decline in collisions by 28%.

Norman Hume, chairman of the Essex casualty-reduction board and the council’s cabinet member for highways and transportation, said: ‘This speed-averaging scheme has been all about saving lives and preventing serious injuries, but it is has also been showing encouraging signs in improving journey times, largely as a result of fewer accidents.

‘We are continuing to closely monitor the scheme but the results so far are emphatic in demonstrating that speed-averaging cameras can have a very real benefit.’

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