The charts and the tables illustrates the quantity of drivers in the UK received fines from speed cameras, and the quantity of road accident casualties in an 8 years’ time, along with a survey of people’s views related to speed cameras.
Overall, the fines of speed camera rose over the 8 years’ period; however, the number of road accident fatalities fluctuated within this period. Furthermore, the survey showed people believed that the climbed speed camera quantities failed to fulfilled the purpose of preventing road accidents.
According to the charts, the quantity of speed camera fines rose over time, from 200,000 to slightly below 600,000 during the year 1 to 5. There was a decline in the 4th year in road accident fatalities when the number dropped to 3000. While the quantity of speed camera was climbing over year 5 to 8, the number of people died from road accident increased in the following years significantly.
There was 71% of participant in the survey believed the installation of speed cameras was to raise revenue, and this reflected the overall climbed trend of speed camera fine. Only 32% of participant agreed that speed cameras able to reduce the number of accident, whereas 60% of people disagreed.
