HEADS UP! New A&S speed cam vans now in use.
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New safety camera vehicles
15/03/2007 09:50
Three distinctive new vehicles are helping to reduce deaths and injuries on the roads of Avon and Somerset.
The white Renault Traffic vans are being used by the safety camera teams who check the speed of traffic at 183 locations where there has been a history of injury collisions or where speeding vehicles are causing a potential danger.
The vans carry the familiar back and white silhouette of a camera on the front, back and side, and have reflective red and yellow stripes across the lower half of the rear of the vehicle. Crews are able to operate the camera from inside the vehicle by lowering the back window.
A total of six safety camera vans operate across the Avon and Somerset area, each with two crew members. There are no plans to increase the number of vehicles. These new vans replace three Ford Galaxy camera vans which have been used in the area for the past five years.
Enforcement of speed limits on roads with a crash history is only part of the job performed by the camera crews. They also use their cameras to monitor traffic speeds on main routes to identify potential problem spots.
The Safety Camera Partnership was launched in April 2002 with the aim of reducing road casualties through driver education and camera enforcement, and creating safer communities especially for the most vulnerable, the elderly and children
Since then the number of people killed and seriously injured on roads covered by cameras has dropped by 24.4 per cent compared to the years immediately before it was formed.
David Gollicker, communications manager, of the Safety Camera Partnership, said: “We have introduced these new camera vehicles as part of a continuous review of our operations. These new vans are bigger and more practical than the previous ones and will give the crews more room particularly when using the camera from inside.
“They also have an additional miniature camera which can be attached to the outside of the vehicle to give the operator all round vision when working from inside the van.”
Mr Gollicker said the new vehicles were clearly marked and very conspicuous.
“As we have said many times before, it is not our aim to catch motorists. Our aim is to reduce speed related crashes on our roads by persuading drivers to travel at a safe speed for the road and weather conditions.
“If drivers keep to the legal speed limit, they don’t have to worry about trying to spot a camera van. They know they will not get a ticket and are less likely to be involved in a collision.”
The partners in the Safety Camera Partnership are Avon and Somerset Constabulary, Bath & North East Somerset Council, Bristol City Council, the Crown Prosecution Service, Highways Agency, HM Courts Service, NHS Primary Care Trusts (Somerset/Avon), North Somerset Council, Somerset County Council and South Gloucestershire Council.
More information about the partnership, including all speed detection and traffic light camera locations, can be found on its web site – www.safecam.org.uk.
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15/03/2007 09:50
Three distinctive new vehicles are helping to reduce deaths and injuries on the roads of Avon and Somerset.
The white Renault Traffic vans are being used by the safety camera teams who check the speed of traffic at 183 locations where there has been a history of injury collisions or where speeding vehicles are causing a potential danger.
The vans carry the familiar back and white silhouette of a camera on the front, back and side, and have reflective red and yellow stripes across the lower half of the rear of the vehicle. Crews are able to operate the camera from inside the vehicle by lowering the back window.
A total of six safety camera vans operate across the Avon and Somerset area, each with two crew members. There are no plans to increase the number of vehicles. These new vans replace three Ford Galaxy camera vans which have been used in the area for the past five years.
Enforcement of speed limits on roads with a crash history is only part of the job performed by the camera crews. They also use their cameras to monitor traffic speeds on main routes to identify potential problem spots.
The Safety Camera Partnership was launched in April 2002 with the aim of reducing road casualties through driver education and camera enforcement, and creating safer communities especially for the most vulnerable, the elderly and children
Since then the number of people killed and seriously injured on roads covered by cameras has dropped by 24.4 per cent compared to the years immediately before it was formed.
David Gollicker, communications manager, of the Safety Camera Partnership, said: “We have introduced these new camera vehicles as part of a continuous review of our operations. These new vans are bigger and more practical than the previous ones and will give the crews more room particularly when using the camera from inside.
“They also have an additional miniature camera which can be attached to the outside of the vehicle to give the operator all round vision when working from inside the van.”
Mr Gollicker said the new vehicles were clearly marked and very conspicuous.
“As we have said many times before, it is not our aim to catch motorists. Our aim is to reduce speed related crashes on our roads by persuading drivers to travel at a safe speed for the road and weather conditions.
“If drivers keep to the legal speed limit, they don’t have to worry about trying to spot a camera van. They know they will not get a ticket and are less likely to be involved in a collision.”
The partners in the Safety Camera Partnership are Avon and Somerset Constabulary, Bath & North East Somerset Council, Bristol City Council, the Crown Prosecution Service, Highways Agency, HM Courts Service, NHS Primary Care Trusts (Somerset/Avon), North Somerset Council, Somerset County Council and South Gloucestershire Council.
More information about the partnership, including all speed detection and traffic light camera locations, can be found on its web site – www.safecam.org.uk.
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those sneaky little over time chasing bastards would sell their own children if it got them a dinner date with Satan.
Are you going to suggest that the very same Das uber Pimmel Kopf's are not going to find some way to catch you out?
Avon and Somerset, great county, used to love living there HUGE drugs and associated crime rate yet they can invest in these scamera vans to save young children out crossing the roads whilst walking their kittens.
Are you going to suggest that the very same Das uber Pimmel Kopf's are not going to find some way to catch you out?
Avon and Somerset, great county, used to love living there HUGE drugs and associated crime rate yet they can invest in these scamera vans to save young children out crossing the roads whilst walking their kittens.
ah yeah, true, then since I have now got a "no dating welsh" rule I tend not to go over that side any more. Ok it took two or three different women to teach me that they are evil... the Welsh that is not women.
Wiltshire is bad? It isnt that bad now I'm up here or maybe I haven't kept my eyes on the road long enough , looking at the speedo, through fear of going 1mph over the posted limit.
Wiltshire is bad? It isnt that bad now I'm up here or maybe I haven't kept my eyes on the road long enough , looking at the speedo, through fear of going 1mph over the posted limit.
Passed one of these a couple of weeks ago on the A38 at Tarnock? There I was being all smug passing the Gatso on the opposite side of the road at 40ish in a 30 limit when the smile was wiped off my face by one of these vans parked on my side of the road .Cursed everyone else in front of me for not braking ( did they not see it either?)Not heard anything yet! How long have they got to inform me?
J500ANT said:
I'm gonna say that, from what I have seen, they play a bit* fairer than many areas i've driven through. I'm thinking South Wales & Wiltshire mainly.
(I didnt say fair, just fairer)
I had an email tonight: (I didnt say fair, just fairer)
Information regarding mobile enforcement schedules – this is not a press release
21/03/2007 16:02
The publishing of mobile enforcement schedules will be under internal review from 1st April 2007.
Schedules will not be published from Monday 2nd April 2007 until further notice.
(Camera Partnerships become something else from April apparently)
scorcher said:
Passed one of these a couple of weeks ago on the A38 at Tarnock? There I was being all smug passing the Gatso on the opposite side of the road at 40ish in a 30 limit when the smile was wiped off my face by one of these vans parked on my side of the road .Cursed everyone else in front of me for not braking ( did they not see it either?)Not heard anything yet! How long have they got to inform me?
14 days from the day after, IF you are the registered owner. Is this the same Mr. Gollicker that ran motorcycle training in Weston super Mare in the seventies? If so, I do believe he has a slightly different attitude to speeding these days, oh yes. If I was synical I might think, what a difference a well paying Job can make ! But of course, I'm not.
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