Less motorists now being caught by speed cameras!
on April 14th, 2011 at 10:03 pmStatistics published by the Home Office showed that 935,000 motorists were caught speeding by camera in 2009, the latest year for which figures are available. The last time cameras caught fewer than one million speeding motorists was in 2001. The numbers rose steadily until they peaked at more than 1.8 million in 2005. However at the same time the soaring number of drivers facing fines and three points on their licence triggered a wave of anger among motorists who claimed that the cameras were being used as a stealth tax. It led to the previous Government scrapping the system which allowed local safety partnerships to keep the fines and reinvest the proceeds in yet more cameras. The change, which saw all fines going to the Treasury, coincided with a reduction in both the number of cameras and motorists being fined in the latter half of the decade. More
