Majority of people believe speed
cameras help to save lives

The majority of people believe that speed cameras help to save lives, according to a national survey published today.

In the National Travel Attitudes Study 2019, released today by the Department for Transport, 59% of people agreed that cameras save lives.

Of those surveyed, 58% of respondents also said they preferred average speed cameras to fixed speed cameras.

In 2017, 1,793 people were killed and 24,831 were seriously injured in road collisions on the UK’s roads. In many of these cases excessive speed was a contributory factor.

Speed cameras were first introduced on UK roads in the 1990s and have since helped to significantly reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on the roads.

A report produced by Prof Richard Allsop, on behalf of the RAC Foundation, concluded that if cameras were decommissioned across the UK 800 extra people could be killed or seriously injured on the roads each year.*

The full report can be read here: National Travel Attitudes Study 2019

*'The Effectiveness of Speed Cameras - A Review of Evidence' 2010