Safety advocates and some state leaders have been down this road before but are hoping the third try will be the charm.

hoping this catches on, pretty please CA…

i like the fact that the money can only go into maintaining the speed cameras or into making the road safer. those are both things desperately needed, especially in LA.

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “We’re having too many car accidents. I know! Let’s deploy devices that’ll cause more car accidents! What could possibly go wrong?!” —Californian legislators

    • Pseu@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You might be surprised to know that speed cameras do not increase accident rates, but decrease them.

      Twenty eight studies measured the effect on crashes. All 28 studies found a lower number of crashes in the speed camera areas after implementation of the program. In the vicinity of camera sites, the reductions ranged from 8% to 49% for all crashes, with reductions for most studies in the 14% to 25% range. For injury crashes the decrease ranged between 8% to 50% and for crashes resulting in fatalities or serious injuries the reductions were in the range of 11% to 44%. Effects over wider areas showed reductions for all crashes ranging from 9% to 35%, with most studies reporting reductions in the 11% to to 27% range. For crashes resulting in death or serious injury reductions ranged from 17% to 58%, with most studies reporting this result in the 30% to 40% reduction range. The studies of longer duration showed that these positive trends were either maintained or improved with time.

      https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004607.pub4/abstract