Car Insurance UK - Cut to Road Safety Work Places Motorists at Risk
28/07/2010
UK motorists are likely to be placed at risk after crucial road safety work has been cut by the government in a cost-cutting measure. In Oxfordshire the Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership will be cut, resulting in speed cameras being switched off in the coming months.
The Con-Lib coalition was forced to announce a 40 percent reduction in funding towards the road safety grant, with local authorities encouraged to spend less in order to thwart the number of accidents and speeding incidents which both have a negative impact on car insurance UK policies.
Road safety charity Brake’s deputy chief executive, Julie Townsend, said: "We are horrified that vital road safety work is grinding to a halt as a result of draconian funding cuts made by the government. We have made a huge amount of progress in reducing tragic, needless and costly road deaths and injuries in recent years – progress that is at great risk of being undone.
"We have a vast amount of evidence showing that cameras are extremely effective in cutting casualties and slowing traffic."
At present there are around 6,000 speed cameras dotted around the UK, with 2,500 of those mobile units. However, this number is likely to decline in the coming months as regions follow the step taken in Oxfordshire.