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authority: North East Lincolnshire Council.
contact: David Gowshall, Road Safety Engineer, 01472 324487,
cost: £600 for the printing of the stickers.
benefits: Reducing traffic speeds and accident rates. Educating drivers to act responsibly and understand the dangers of speeding. Contributes to BVPI 99 (road safety).
Jumping to conclusionsOn David Vine's Radio 2 programme this lunchtime, they were talking about magistrates. I was only half listening, so this will...
A unique approach to road safety is being hailed as a lifesaver, following a successful trial in North East Lincolnshire. Road safety experts claim the Community Pace Car Scheme, introduced in June 2003, has led to an estimated 20 percent reduction in collisions on the roads around Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham.
Volunteers who join the scheme sign a pledge to keep to the speed limit whenever they drive within the borough and to display a ?Pace Car? sticker on the back of their vehicle. The ?Pace Car? then, effectively, becomes a mobile traffic calming measure by slowing down speeding motorists who then become less likely to be involved in an accident. Since the project was launched in the summer of 2002, over 900 motorists have signed up to take part and buses are also sporting the stickers. The results have astounded road safety experts.
David Gowshall, North East Lincolnshire Council?s road safety engineer, said, ?We wanted something unique that would catch people?s attention and cause debate. The evidence of the scheme?s success is in the casualty figures and there is no doubt it has been a major influence. Even if someone is driving five miles per hour above the speed limit, it can have an effect and this has really focused people?s minds on speeding.?
Accident figures for the Grimsby area show that there were four fewer baneities in 2002 compared to 2001 and local awareness of the dangers of driving over the speed limit has increased considerably.
The council has also teamed up with Humberside Police to introduce a seminar programme aimed at educating drivers caught speeding, to run alongside the Pace Car project. The seminar includes an emotive video featuring a family whose daughter was end by a speeding driver. Drivers are encouraged to take responsibility for the way they drive and understand the effect they have, particularly on more vulnerable road users.
The Pace Car Scheme has gained further local recognition, winning the local Safer Communities Partnership Award for Innovation 2003. Neighbouring authorities are now looking at the possibility of introducing the scheme.
-- Conor
Speed Enforcement At IAM meeting 1655Okay. Perhaps someone should design a speed camera that stops taking photos when there's only 2 photos left, to leave room for the second calibration check. That would allow 396-400 = 99% of the film...
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