Speed ​​cameras – Road Safety ensures that speed cameras are placed on dangerous roads … –

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Road Safety ensures that speed cameras are placed on dangerous roads…

Speed ​​cameras - Road Safety ensures that speed cameras are placed on dangerous roads ... -

While according to Auto-Plus, "52%" of French automatic radars are installed on roads where accidents do not occur, contradicting the official discourse according to which they are placed in priority on accident-prone sites, the State opposes a denial as virulent… than moderately convincing !

While according to "52%" of French automatic radars are installed on roads where accidents do not occur, contradicting the official discourse according to which they are placed in priority on accident-prone sites, the State opposes such a virulent denial … only moderately convincing !

Radars placed in a non-hazardous area bring in less money  

"Automatic speed cameras = money pumps": the association is made, has been or will be (cross out unnecessary mentions) by almost all road users … Based on this observation, Auto-Plus wanted to prove the primary objective of profitability of the flashing booths, by highlighting the absence of real dangers in the areas where they are installed.

Our colleagues have therefore superimposed two official maps – those of accidents and those of fixed speed cameras – in order to check if the cabins are indeed on the roads where accidents actually take place, as the authorities claim since the installation of by a certain Nicolas sarkozy.

Carried out over a period of three years, this study delivers a result without appeal – and without surprises? : only "48%" of devices are installed in places where accidents have occurred since 2012, notes Auto-Plus, which specifies that "52%" are therefore located on axes where there has been no ‘accidents. So, a priori, not dangerous…

According to the weekly, the choice to place the majority of radars in non-dangerous areas would be deliberate, the State preferring locations "considered more profitable" in a desire to "fill its coffers". In support of its claims, Auto-Plus ensures that radars placed on really dangerous roads would flash nearly three times less ("4,774 times a year" against "12,000"). This difference would be at the origin of a shortfall estimated at "nearly one million euros per year and per cabin".

Just a few days after the publication of this investigation, the Interministerial Delegation for Road Safety and Traffic (DSCR) stepped up to the plate with a press release that will serve as "the right of reply to the newspaper which published this erroneous information, as well as ‘to all those who relayed it in good faith " !

"No radar is placed in consideration of the revenue it could generate"

First aspect criticized by Road Safety: the lack of perspective of this investigation since according to the authorities, it would take "at least 5 years" to be able to assess the accident-prone nature of a road.

"Road safety experts know that an accident-prone zone is established from a much longer period, in application of well-known statistical rules", gets angry Road Safety, without however going into the details of these famous and not so well known "statistical rules"…

Not to mention that between the period chosen to examine the accidentology and the actual installation of the radar, there would be a delay of "several years due to the delays in collecting statistics, compliance with public procurement rules and finally the works. installation ", adds the government.

To compensate for this delay, once the choice of a site has been validated, the prefects would ask the police to carry out "regular flying checks on these areas, which sometimes allows a reduction in the number of serious accidents. on these sections even before the installation of the fixed speed camera ". 

So, to summarize without bursting into laughter at the absurdity of this argument – or bursting into tears, depending on your mood of the day … – these radars are not at all badly placed as shown by the accidentology noted by Auto- No longer, but their effect would simply be delayed. well then !

"These checks are now facilitated by movable radars, such as autonomous and on-board radars currently in service", reassures us "Road Safety which wishes to certify" that no radar is placed in consideration of the revenues it could generate due to the offenses committed ".

"Besides, the weekly is careful not to recall that any fixed speed camera is preceded by a sign informing of its presence", she concludes in an unconvincing attempt to discredit the weekly in question..

Because at MNC, we do not really understand the obscure relationship between accidentology and warning signs. On the other hand, the link between immediate profits and automatic radars appears to us very easy to achieve, without even comparing statistics….

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