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Below are the news items found in the "Location Issues" category.

Speed camera that causes 42% more casualties [read more]
5-Jan-09 | Source: Daily Mail | Category: Location Issues, Crazy
Comment: Failure to remove this camera which clearly is the catalyst for the increased casualty rate would be final proof that authorities value revenue above human life.
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M4 camera that caused accidents to be removed [read more]
24-Dec-06 | Source: BBC News | Category: Location Issues
Comment: This is the first acknowledgement by officials that speed cameras have side effects. Pity it's taken so many horrible accidents to get this far.
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Refunds for drivers as London partnership admits blunder [read more]
23-Jun-05 | Source: Evening Standard | Category: Location Issues, Fines & Points
Comment: Stress and anger caused by dodgy speed traps taking advantage of unusual speed limits
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Fury as mobile cameras grow in number [read more]
6-Feb-05 | Source: Mail on Sunday | Category: Location Issues, Statistics & Research
Comment: As violent crime increases (over 10,000 firearm offences in 2004), why do the authorities focus more resources on fining speeding drivers? This is what the public doesn't understand, unless it's simply an easy way to make money?
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Coventry rips up cameras from ring road in u-turn [read more]
1-Oct-04 | Source: IC Coventry | Category: Location Issues
Comment: This partnership says that cameras are there to make drivers slow down and not to take pictures (and rightly so), so why do mobile units snap drivers before they even have a chance of seeing them? Hidden cameras make money, not save lives.
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Camera on M4 positioned to suit staff who replace film [read more]
5-Aug-04 | Source: ic Wales | Category: Location Issues, Crazy
Comment: Forget the safety of thousands of drivers on the M4, this camera was positioned to suit the needs of the people who change the film. The professor is predicting an accident, but will anyone take notice of his warning or even responsability if there is one?
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Manager of Norfolk Casualty Reduction Partnership resigns after report criticised validity of speed camera locations. Police said data used to justify some locations was questionable or unavailable.
28-Jul-04 | Source: Evening News 24 | Category: Location Issues
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A34 is named as Britain's most camera infested road with 45 cameras in just 23 miles. [read more]
22-Jul-04 | Source: Daily Mail | Category: Location Issues, Crazy
Comment: The challenge drivers face of monitoring the varying speed limits and the needle on their speedometer increases on the A34 at the expense of keeping an eye on other road users, obsticles and pedestrians. Not paying attention to the road is the largest cause of accidents according to official records. How ironic that the chosen method to prevent just 4% of accidents contradicts what is actually required to reduce the majority of accidents.
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Transport Secretary Alastair Darling said that some speed cameras are in the wrong place and are not making the roads safter. A review of all cameras will be published in June.
18-May-04 | Source: PA News | Category: Location Issues, Government Says
Comment: This is the second review of cameras this year. The first was in January but concluded that all cameras were correctly located.
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Government relaxes guidelines on cameras - new ones to appear on safe roads and residential areas, some to enforce 20mph limits
16-Apr-04 | Source: Daily Mail | Category: Government Says, Location Issues
Comment: A camera placed on a road with no history of serious accidents can only serve one purpose - to generate revenue. If there is no history of accidents there can't be any other purpose for it.
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Police report reveals some of Norfolk's cameras could be wrongly sited - data to justify placing of cameras was shredded by Camera Partnership
30-Mar-04 | Source: Evening News 24 | Category: Location Issues, Police Says
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