MANY readers have commented on speed cameras and have asked if they cut accidents or make cash for the police.

The one in Preston New Road, Blackburn, tells me it's to make cash for the police.

Leaving town going towards Preston it appears all right to put your foot down past several schools and a hospital but once you turn the bend and hit the clear road down to Yew Tree, there's a camera. Would this not be better near the schools?

Then, apart from a new camera that isn't working yet has no road markings, near the Mellor Brook turn off, that's your lot.

I have written before about the speeds traffic travels from Yew Tree to the M6: a road on which there have been several fatal accidents -- the latest a 13-year-old boy.

Why are cameras not placed at frequent intervals on this road or, at the very least prior to a sharp bend? No profit in this, just loss -- a life.

SAM SPENCE, Ribblesdale Place, Blackburn.