SPEED CAMERAS PENALISE SAFE DRIVERS
20 October 2005 - Safe Speed

The Times today reveals that drivers with speed camera points now face onlytoken increases in insurance premiums.

Safe Speed says this is clear and dramatic evidence of speed camera policy failure.

If speed cameras identified drivers with higher than average crash risks, then the very sophisticated risk assessment systems that insurance companies use would clearly detect risk differences.

But it''s far worse than that because at the very least we would have expected speeding convictions to represent an ''exposure proxy''. People who drive higher mileages are more exposed to the risk of crashes and more exposed to speeding convictions. We''d expect to see a substantial increase in insurance premiums for drivers with speeding convictions due to this effect alone.

Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign (www.safespeed.org.uk) said: ''The Times figures almost certainly show that the average driver with speeding convictions pays less insurance per mile driven than the average driver with a clean licence. That''s exactly the opposite of the message we''re getting from government.''

''The government is dangerously wrong. Speed cameras are the wrong road safety policy and we have to get them off our roads right now. If we had put the same resources into real road safety policies instead of speed cameras we''d now have over 1,000 fewer road deaths each year.''

''We''re penalising millions of safe drivers and it''s making the roads more dangerous - everyone is concentrating on the wrong safety factor.''

www.safespeed.org.uk

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