EVIDENTLY, in my previous comments I happened to place a different 'spin' on road accident figures, of which slightly over 10 per cent were due to excess speed.
Fair play to Linda Sanderson, of the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety (Letters, September 8) by attempting in reply to justify her, and everyone else's well-salaried positions.
The persecution of people driving over the speed limits is supposedly justified by a drop in road fatalities.
Could that be used in a contra-argument -- that the area in England with the highest proliferation of speed cameras has seen an increase in road accident fatalities?
More than 80 per cent of accidents are not caused by speeding. But, again, these offenders are not such easy targets for the Traffic Taliban!
HARRY ROBINSON, Juniper Court, Huncoat, Accrington.
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