Cambridgeshire County Council is a member of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Road Safety Partnership which includes the operation of the county’s speed enforcement cameras at locations with a history of speed related personal injury accidents.
There are currently 53 fixed cameras within the partnership of which 34 are on County Council roads. The Highways Agency has installed a system of average speed cameras on both carriageways of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon. In addition there are two mobile enforcement vans that operate at specific accident sites around the county.
The overall aim of the camera network is to reduce casualties on the roads of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. This is done by high-visibility enforcement of speed limits – the idea of cameras being to slow drivers down rather than to punish them.
Since the original Partnership was formed in 2001, safety cameras have contributed to a 55% reduction in the number of people killed and seriously injured in collision hotspots around the county. There has also been a 17% reduction in average speeds at new camera sites – this equates to a reduction of around seven miles per hour on average.
The Road Safety Partnership is made up of Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council, The Highways Agency, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Public Health Network and East of England Ambulance NHS Trust.