Averaging speed cameras covering the A43 between Northampton and Kettering are vital - such cameras have made a huge safety improvement on the A43 Lumbertubs Way in Northampton itself and on the A428 Bedford Road in South Northamptonshire.
The evidence is quite clear: Lumbertubs Way was a dangerous dual carriageway with 63 people killed or injured in three years - (see the police view here) - the number of people killed and seriously injured fell by 85% in the three years after installation of averaging cameras compared with the three years before (see here for data).
This early 2001 experiment with averaging speed cameras was so successful that the police have repeated it on the A428 Bedford Road, South of Northampton - click here for police statement.
Police have made this investment even though there were less than half the number of people killed and seriously injured on that stretch of road compared to the A43 Northampton to Kettering - 13 versus 32.
The time has come to do this on the A43 - a major speed averaging camera investment along 10 miles of dangerous road.
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