I was amazed at the misleading item from George Morton, The Moors, Kidlington, in which he claimed that deaths had fallen at 2000 a year since speed cameras had been imposed.

On the contrary deaths have remained almost static and risen fractionally at about 3,500 a year from the whole UK; bucking the benign downward trend that genuine safety improvements have been responsible for for the last three decades.

The BMI and DfT have both recognised the malignant effect of speed camera policy and its negative impact on road safety by distorting drivers priorities away from observation.

It has been said that these cameras for the sake of the £200mraised for their quangoes are responsible for an additional 200 deaths since the mid 90's.

Richard Ceen Hawarden Deesideo