Scotland set to get average-speed cameras

26 March 2008
 
Average-speed cameras could be put up in towns and cities across Scotland, after being championed by the county’s transport minister at a recent meeting.

Stewart Stevenson was impressed by the reduction in accidents along Britain’s longest speed trap – a 29-mile stretch of the A77 in Ayreshire – where cameras were introduced in 2005. At a meeting of the Scottish Government’s road safety expert group he pointed to Swedish research, which showed the effect of speed on road casualties.

Mr Stevenson said: ‘The public has an overwhelming wish to cut undesirable speeds so that should be a focus. This could be increasingly through the use of average-speed cameras which have been successful on the A77.’

The group is conducting a consultation into safety and hopes to draw up a 10-year strategy to cut road deaths, which leapt by 10% in 2006.

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