Enforcement vans cut biker accidents

01 April 2009

Motorcycle accidents in Norfolk are already falling, following the 2008 arrival of new triple camera-equipped speed enforcement vans.

The rural road safety Beacon authority is the first to have won Department for Transport support for a trial of Teletraffic’s Commander system. This records linked images of speeding vehicles approaching, passing and then – for automatic number plate-recognition – receding.

Full evaluation is due after trial-end in March 2010. But ‘our anecdotal evidence is that word is getting around’, according to the county council’s casualty reduction project engineer, Keith Allen.

He said the county was also trialling two alternative high-friction treatments for making manhole covers safer to ride over.

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