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Welcome
to the Tayside Safety Camera Partnership website. Here you
can find information about the Partnership, our latest press
releases, facts and figures and details of camera locations.
The
Tayside Safety Camera Partnership (TSCP) was launched in
July 2003 with the aim of reducing the number of road casualties
on Tayside’s roads by encouraging and educating motorists
to drive within permitted speed limits. It will do this
by clearly promoting the objectives of the scheme and through
the use of safety cameras situated in areas where there
is a proven incidence of collisions and excessive speed
TSCP
is a partnership of Angus Council, Dundee City Council,
Perth and Kinross Council, the Scottish
Executive and Tayside
Police with support from NHS Tayside, Tayside Fire
and Rescue and the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Following
the success of eight pilot projects throughout the UK, including
one in the Strathclyde police area, the Government invited
other partnerships to participate in the initiative. As
a result the TSCP was launched.
Its
main aim is to make the roads of Tayside safer for everyone.
In the year 2003/4 there were 37 deaths, 286 serious injuries
and more than 1000 injuries as a result of collisions on
the roads in Tayside. While the cost in terms of time and
resources to the emergency services and the NHS is considerable,
the human cost – the trauma, grief and pain caused
as a result of a collision - is immeasurable.
Research
has shown a direct link between speed and injury collisions
and Government estimates show an average speed reduction
of only 1% will lead to a 5% reduction in casualties.
(Source: Transport Research Laboratory 1994 and 2000.)
Speed cameras are an effective tool against the problem of speeding motorists. |
