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Pupils to hand out speeding tickets
DRIVERS who speed near a Hull primary school will come face to face with their potential victims when their speeding tickets are handed out by pupils.
Children in year six at Anlaby Primary School will be serving tickets they have designed themselves to errant motorists tomorrow under the watchful eye of local police officers.
The speed awareness event has been organised by the school, and with the assistance of community support officers and special constables from the neighbourhood policing team, the youngsters will operate a laser device to catch offenders and pull them over outside the school in First Lane.
Humberside Police said the children were keen to show drivers that they were concerned about the speed of vehicles passing the school.
A spokeswoman said: “The message the children are keen to communicate to drivers with the issuing of their tickets is that they take the issue of road safety seriously, and that speeding motorists are of particular concern to them, especially in the vicinity of the school.”
Community support officer Chris Wray added: “When we were approached to offer assistance with this project we were more than happy to accept. Despite having a heavy schedule of learning in their final year at primary school, these children still find the time to demonstrate their responsible and mature attitude to road safety, and they are to be commended for that.”
Although the numbers of people being killed or seriously injured on the region’s roads is falling, statistics show speed is one of the main causes of fatal and serious collisions.
Figures show that 70 per cent of drivers break urban speed limits each day. A total of 28 people died on the region’s roads in 2010, down from the 37 killed in 2009 and the 42 who died in 2008. A further 469 people suffered serious injuries in 2010.
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jcwconsult
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 08:57 PM70% of drivers exceed urban speed limits because they are deliberately and improperly set at the 30th percentile speeds of traffic to arbitrarily define 70% of all drivers as violators. IF speed limits were set for safety (which they almost never are in the UK and the USA) they would be set at the 85th percentile speed of free flowing traffic under good conditions to maximize safety and minimize accidents. The UK used this method until about 20 years ago when speed cameras and revenue superceded safety as the true goal for posted speed limits and their enforcement. Recent UK research shows that these artificially low limits and speed cameras have NOT improved safety, something truth-telling engineers knew 20 years ago. See www.abd.org.uk for the Association of British Drivers website and ours www.motorists.org for the science. James C. Walker, National Motorists Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA (frequent visitor to Britain to see family)
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