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Statement re Government Funding
As a result of the Government’s decision to make an in-year saving to the Road Safety Grants to Devon, Plymouth, Cornwall and Torbay councils, the Devon and Cornwall Safety Camera Partnership Board has requested the project team to prepare a revised plan for the remainder of the financial year 2010-11 with a 26% reduction in budget. Initial planning indicates this requires a projected 50% reduction in staffing levels to be implemented by late November 2010 to maintain expenditure within this revised budget.
Further advice on the future of safety cameras is expected from the Minister and in the short term, safety camera enforcement will continue in Devon and Cornwall with fewer resources. It is hoped that some form of funding can be established before the end of the year in order to maintain this programme that has contributed significantly to the overall reduction in deaths and serious injuries. If there is no agreement on funding Partnership activities by the end of the year it may be necessary to initiate the full closure of the Partnership by the end of March 2011.
There is local evidence of continued majority public support for the use of cameras to reduce casualties and, although the Government has indicated it will no longer support central funding for fixed cameras, it is not yet certain that this will necessarily mean an end to the deployment of cameras at sites where they can make a difference to the likelihood of further collisions.
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A trial has taken place, at Exeter Magistrates Court, which challenged the posting and procedures involved in a speeding offence.
A motorist, Lee Abbey from Birmingham, has been found guilty of failing to give information regarding the driver’s identity in relation to a speeding offence. Mr Abbey’s vehicle was captured on the A30 Launceston By Pass eastbound junction with Trebursey travelling at 87mph. Mr Abbey failed to identify the driver at the time of the offence and subsequently received 6 penalty points, one month disqualification, £220 fine, £15 victim surcharge and £85 costs.
Today, 12/3/10, Tracey Anne Stevens, 41 from Plymouth, appeared in Plymouth Crown Court and was found guilty of perverting the course of justice in relation to a red traffic light offence at the junction of Outland Road and Peverell Park Road, Plymouth on 17/9/09. She received an 8 month prison sentence.
Monday, March 01, 2010, 10:00
A MILLIONAIRE entrepreneur and his interior designer wife have clocked up a fine of more than £1,000 and 12 licence points between them for failing to identify which one of them was driving their speeding Land Rover.
Today, 17/2/10 at Plymouth Crown Court, Nigel Roger Williams, 44 from Torquay, pleaded guilty to the charge of perverting the course of justice in relation to a speeding offence.
Peter John MARSHALL born 25/05/54 of Hayle in Cornwall today, 14/12/09, pleaded guilty at Plymouth Crown Court and was sentenced for the offence of perverting the course of public justice. He was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment suspended for 2years, 160 hours unpaid work, supervision order for 12 months and costs of £1300 to be paid within 6 months.
On 13/11/09, John Richardson, 75 from Budleigh Salterton, Exeter, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court charged with three counts of Perverting the Course of Justice.
We understand through the media and from the Conservative Party’s website that today the shadow transport secretary, Theresa Villiers, is “to announce a radical plan to improve road safety and end the relentless expansion of fixed speed cameras.”
A COMPANY finance director was today handed a hefty fine after he admitted travelling at 102mph on a road in Devon.
On 14/5/09, Robyn COAD aged 21 yrs from Brixham, pleaded guilty to the offence of Failing to Identify the Driver of her vehicle contrary to sec 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
It has been brought to our attention that a spoof website is currently being promoted by email, it claims drivers have been detected speeding and that they can view their details on line by entering their registration ...
As a result of complaints from residents in and around the Outland Road area a stretch of this road was recently subject to mobile speed enforcement.
On Sunday September 7th 2008 a speed detection operation was carried out on the A374 Torpoint to Trerulefoot using marked and unmarked vehicles...
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