Cameras to capture speeders (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Cameras to capture speeders

A BLITZ on speeding drivers is planned on the M4. The Wiltshire and Swindon Safety Camera Partnership plans to install several speed cameras.

Full details will be released on Wednesday at an event attended by South Swindon MP Julia Drown and Wiltshire Chief Constable Martin Richards. The cameras will be put in place between Membury Services and junction 17.

No further details have been announced yet.

Although backed by the police, speed cameras are controversial.

Drivers' groups claim they do not reduce accidents, and are a way of making cash for the Government.

But recent figures show drivers in Swindon appear to be escaping the worst of the speeding fines.

Last year, nearly 40,000 fines were handed out to drivers in Wiltshire and Swindon.

That compares to 111,646 tickets in the Thames Valley region and 99,151 in Avon, Somerset and Gloucester.