1/14/2005
New UK FOIA Law Reveals First Camera FailureA new law has made it harder to hide failures like Pembrokshire, UK's speed camera that has caused 37 new accidents.

A newspaper in Wales has for some time tried to get accident and speed camera revenue from the government. Under a new freedom of information act, their requests can no longer be refused -- and it's clear what the government wanted to hide.
Pembrokshire has a single speed camera which has raked in GBP300,000 in revenue. In return, there have been 37 more accidents and two additional fatalities.
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And the Mercury can reveal that during the time that the camera has been operating, accidents in Pembrokeshire have actually gone up.Source: Speed fines top GBP300k . . . but accidents continue to rise (West Wales Mercury (UK), 1/14/2005)
There were 381 accidents in 2002 (including six fatal) and 418 in 2003 (including eight fatal).
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