Road safety cameras
Road safety cameras help to keep down the number of motorists and pedestrians killed or injured on the roads by encouraging road users to obey speed signs and traffic signals.
If you travel around our county you will probably see static road safety cameras and mobile cameras operated by the Nottinghamshire Safety Camera Partnership.
The partnership is a joint initiative between local authorities, Nottinghamshire Police and other agencies in Nottinghamshire. It was established in 2000 as part of a national scheme to encourage local organisations to work together to improve road safety.
The partnership’s main objectives are to:
• Ensure that motorists keep to speed limits and obey traffic signals
• Educate road users about the steps they can take to reduce the risk of becoming involved in a road accident.
It is a common misconception that the police profit from fining speeding motorists. This is not true. Money from fines goes direct to central government, funding for the partnership comes from local authorities.
And road safety cameras are not intended to ‘catch out’ motorists. Details of where static and mobile cameras are sited in Nottinghamshire are published on NOTTSPEED, the Nottinghamshire Safety Camera Partnership website.
Nottinghamshire Safety Camera Partnership offers the National Speed Awareness Course to those who are eligible as an alternative to prosecution.
Nottinghamshire Police also has speed detection equipment fitted in some of its patrol and response vehicles, enabling officers to enforce the speed limit on any section of road anywhere in the county. Trained divisional officers have access to hand held speed detection devices which they are able to use in response to local complaints of speeding.
Useful links
Other links
- Department for Transport's road safety strategy
- Nottinghamshire Safety Camera Partnership
- Think! Road Safety
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