A339 Protected by Speed Cameras
The A339 Kingsclere Road NE of is now a road protected by fixed speed cameras which have been located there because the road has had a total of five collisions in which people were killed or seriously injured out of 14 collisions in which people were injured over a 3 year period. These collisions resulted in a total of 17 people being injured.
Julian Hewitt, spokesperson for the Safety Camera Partnership for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight said: “We have spent some time making certain that everything is in place before we commissioned the cameras and it is to the credit of the motorists who use the road that the average speed of the traffic has reduced even before the cameras have gone live. The route is clearly signed showing both the speed limit and the fact that there are speed cameras. The camera signs and the bright yellow cameras have obviously already alerted drivers to the fact that the route has a high level of casualties. Our aim is to issue no speeding tickets at this site and we ask road users to help us to achieve this by driving at an appropriate speed well within the limit and encouraging others to do the same. If they do this they can help to reduce the misery for individuals and the cost to the community that road accidents cause.”
Research by the Transport Research Laboratory shows that for every 1mph reduction in average speed there is a 5% reduction in injury accidents so even small reductions in speed can make a big difference to both the likelihood of having a collision and the severity of any accident
Posted: Thursday, November 04 2004
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