Speed cameras help cut crashes and casualties
POLICE say routes installed with average speed cameras have proven to reduce both collisions and casualties - with speeding offences having plunged.
Eight routes across the county saw the cameras fitted within an 18-month period – including the speeding blackspot, the B6232 Grane Road between Haslingden and Belthorn.
Analysis of the impact the average speed cameras have had in the two years since they went live demonstrates they have been successful on all eight routes, with Grane Road reducing detections of excess speed by 70.4 per cent.
The Grane Road figures represent the drop in incidents between the first full month of going live (December 2017) and the equivalent month two years later, and hence are not affected by the subsequent pandemic.
Last February it was
revealed that in the first three years of operation, a whopping 63,992 vehicles had been detected for breaching the prosecution excess speed threshold – around 400 a week and over the double the county’s next highest site.
In 2018, we reported that more than 100 people a day were caught out in January of that year.
Police say that due to the success in reducing
both offences and collisions, projects are in place to install five further average speed camera routes across Lancashire, details of which were announced in August 2018.
Supt Damian Darcy, of Lancashire Police’s Tactical Operations, said: “Slower speeds mean safer roads for all road users, residents and communities.
“We thank those drivers who obey the limits.
“We are pleased to see that the number of both collisions and offences detected on these roads has reduced so significantly.”
He continued: “Those who continue to choose to speed on Lancashire’s roads will not be tolerated and offenders will continue to be dealt with appropriately.”