Cameras cut casualties in road accidents
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October 7, 2010, Thursday
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SPEED cameras may be seen as an annoyance by many drivers, but a study of an international research showed yesterday that this kind of monitoring of roads does cut the number of traffic injuries and deaths.
Preventing traffic injuries is a global health issue, with the World Health Organization predicting that by 2020, road crashes will move to third from ninth in the world ranking of burden of disease.
Each year about 1.2 million people are killed in traffic accidents and between 20 and 50 million injured or disabled.
Researchers from University of Queensland set out to check the impact of using speed cameras by analyzing studies from countries and regions, including Australia, the United States, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Britain and Hong Kong.
They found speed cameras cut the average speed by 1-15 percent and the percentage of vehicles that exceeded local speed limits by 14-65 percent.
The numbers of crashes in the areas of the cameras also fell by 8-49 percent, while fatal or serious injury crashes cut by 11-44 percent.
Preventing traffic injuries is a global health issue, with the World Health Organization predicting that by 2020, road crashes will move to third from ninth in the world ranking of burden of disease.
Each year about 1.2 million people are killed in traffic accidents and between 20 and 50 million injured or disabled.
Researchers from University of Queensland set out to check the impact of using speed cameras by analyzing studies from countries and regions, including Australia, the United States, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Britain and Hong Kong.
They found speed cameras cut the average speed by 1-15 percent and the percentage of vehicles that exceeded local speed limits by 14-65 percent.
The numbers of crashes in the areas of the cameras also fell by 8-49 percent, while fatal or serious injury crashes cut by 11-44 percent.
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