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The Link Magazine • June 2003 9
Mobile units crackdown on speeding drivers
By the time you see the white van parked at the side of the road with its back door open, a tiny red laser spot will have measured your speed.
If you were going too fast a brown envelope will appear a few days later demanding a £60 fixed penalty or even a summons.
In addition to the six fixed cam- £1 million cost has already been

eras located around the town, the met by fines on speeding drivers ^Qt; D^ BROOK l q joke if you've beenn Drried
three mobile units operated by since it went operational last Sep- on Thame d own D ve
Wiltshire police will be seen at ten tember. Any surplus from fines is
sites around the town: returned to the project run by the West Swindon
1 Thamesdown Drive in North Wiltshire and Swindon road safety _ t°
Swindon (several places) partnership which includes Swin- — --*
2 A4259 Queen's Drive east of don and Wiltshire County Oakhurst
the fixed camera Councils, the NHS, Highways'
3 A419 Stratton St Margaret Agency, the Magistrates' Courts
bypass and Crown Prosecution Service. C
4 Ermin Street, Stratton Swindon Council's traffic man
5 M4 between junctions 14 & 17 agement group officer Adrian
6 B4192 Liddington Dean said, "the partnership be
7 A4361 North Wroughton lieves the people of Swindon want
8 A346 Chiseldon Firs us to act before more people are
9 A419 Cricklade injured or killed.
10 A419 Blunsdon Hill "In the 36 months between 1 ries to under-16s and 345 slight the mobile units have been on the
Launched in April last \ear, the January 2000 and 31 December injuries to under-16s." road, he had noticed a significant
2002, 2,598 people The figures do not include colli- drop in speeds. "The proof will be
were killed or in- sions on the M4, A419 or A420 at when we can see whether acci-
^„ jured on Swindon's South Marston which are the re- dents and fatalities are down."
roads and a third of sponsibilitvofotherbod-
rat
these collisions re- ies. James Roberts w9 "'` ^^` '^ r
sulted from people The NHS calculates from Grange Park s \ ^_ ^ 3
driving too fast. Of that the cost of a serious won a helicopter
these casualties, ten road accident, including ride for designing
were fatal, 260 were emergency and intensive a 'Bridge of
serious injuries and care and out-patient re- Dreams.'
2,328 were slight in- habilitation, can be up to
juries. Included in £100,000.
these figures are the One of the operational `^d ^e See the photo
death of one under- officers PC Neill Turner I and story on
PC Neill Turner checking speeds on Thamesdown Drive 16, 44 serious inju- said that in the six months page 10.

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