Enforcement & Safety Cameras

Enforcement for Road Safety by Avon and Somerset Police.

There is a clear and close relationship between speed and road accidents.  Higher speed reduces the margin for driver error, increasing the risk that an accident will occur.  It also increase the severity of injuries sustained by people involved in road accidents, particularly pedestrians and other vulnerable road users.   Enforcement of speed limits is the responsibility  of the Police (Avon and Somerset Constabulary), and is appropriate where other approaches to casualty reduction are not possible, or where they have been tried but siginificant levels of speeding and/or casualties continue to occur.  It is a criminal offence to exceed the posted legal speed limit on any road and at any time. Speed limit enforcement currently takes the form of Community Speed Watch,Neighbourhood Policing and the Road Policing Unit. 

The Department for Transport has recently requested that for each permanent fixed speed camera site, casualty, crash and speed information are provided.  As the Safety Cameras in the West of England Road Safety Partnership are currently switched off, there is no requirement for the local authorities to provide this data.  However Bristol City Council has decided to publish this historic data, which is available to download below.

Downloads

SafeCam Sites Review spreadsheet (July 2011).xls

For further information, regarding the use of Safety Cameras, please visit the Avon and Somerset Police website

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