Weekly Speed Camera Updates - North East, Highlands

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Here's the info from the Northern safety Camera Partnership.

Northern Safety Camera Partnership deployment w/c 20 May 2013

Northern Safety Camera Partnership Manager, Dougie Bennion said: “This week the Partnership is flagging up the importance of maintaining stopping distances because it has been identified through the lens of the cameras that it is a continuing concern.

“Stopping distances preserve the space required between vehicles to allow drivers to stop safely if required and the recommended stopping distances should be at least doubled on wet roads. Remember, only a fool breaks the 2 second rule.”

Road Safety Scotland website ‘Get in Lane’ contains information and a driving game related to the ‘2 Second Rule’:-

How to check there’s a 2 second gap between you and the car in front:

1. Note a roadside feature as the vehicle in front passes it.

2. Count how many seconds pass before you reach the same feature or say the words “only a fool breaks the two second rule”.

3. If it’s less than 2 seconds you are too close.

(source: http://www.getinlane.com/page40.php)

During the week commencing Monday, 20 May 2013, mobile safety cameras will be deployed at the following locations:

Badenoch, Strathspey & Nairnshire

A9 - Near Dalwhinnie

A9 - North of Dalwhinnie Junction

A9 - Cuaich, by Dalwhinnie

A95 - North of Cromdale

A95 - Drumuillie, by Boat of Garden

A95 - Congash Farm, by Grantown on Spey

Caithness and Sutherland

A99 - South of Wick at Hempriggs

A882 Watten

Ross & Cromarty

A834 - Strathpeffer Road, Dingwall

A9 Skiach junction to Broomfield, Ross-shire

A9 - Near to Fearn Junction by Tain

Inverness

A82 - Altsigh Youth Hostel, by Invermoriston

Additional Deployments

A9 between Latheron and Thurso

Join us on TWITTER to view our weekly deployments: @NorthernSCP

Mobile cameras will also be operating between camera sites on the A9, the A95, the A82 and the A96.

*Please note that the deployment schedule may be subject to change according to operational priorities and weather conditions.

All our camera sites have a proven history of collisions and evidence of speeding vehicles. We may from time to time use mobile cameras at other sites where both vehicle and road users are at greater risk, such as road works.

Additional information about Northern Safety Camera Partnership is available at http://www.nscp.co.uk

http://www.nscp.co.uk/news

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The deployment plans for the North East will be added in when they get round to publishing them