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Safety Cameras

Safety Cameras

The Highways Agency is an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport and is responsible for maintaining, operating and improving the strategic road network in England. The strategic road network is one of the safest in the world and the Agency has in place measures to ensure the safety of those who use the road and those who work to maintain and operate the road network.

The Agency uses safety cameras as one of measures to help improve safety. There are fixed safety camera sites, mostly on all purpose trunk roads, which are operated within local Road Safety Partnerships. The Agency has worked with these Partnerships to improve safety by managing safety camera sites and the enforcement actions by the Police. Details of the Road Safety Camera Partnerships can be found by following the links below. Following the instruction from the Transport Minister, Mike Penning, each Partnership has published information about the casualty data for each camera location including the Highways Agency's sites in their areas. Information about the policy on safety cameras can be found on the Department for Transport's website via the link below.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/publications/speed-camera-information

Managed and Controlled Motorways

The Agency also uses fixed safety cameras as part of managing traffic flows on the busiest motorways where there are controlled motorways or hard shoulder running with controlled speeds. Listed below are the seven locations where safety cameras are in operation.

On the M25 location, controlled motorways have been in operation for many years and on the M42 hard shoulder operation has been in place for more than three years. Reports on the casualty data are available in the links below.

For the other three locations, controlled motorways or hard shoulder running has been in place for less than three years and the casualty data for these shorter periods has been summarised in the links below.        

Other Managed and Controlled Motorways are planned at the following locations and the pre-opening casualty and collision data is shown in the links below:

Safety CameraHard Shoulder Running

In our Strategic Plan 2010-15 the Agency sets out how it will continue to reduce deaths and serious injuries on our network through on-road systems, targeted improvements to our roads, and better provision of information.
 
While the Agency has prime responsibility for the Strategic Road Network, many measures, especially non-engineering initiatives, can also have an impact on non Agency roads. In the same way, initiatives undertaken by others, for example, by other road authorities or the police can also have an impact on the safety of our network. The Agency needs to work closely with our partners, sharing best practice, technical expertise and experience, in order to achieve common safety goals and outcomes at a local level. 
 
We will provide road safety forums and local road safety partnerships with information about our current safety measures, our future plans, and we will manage their expectations when either formulating plans or implementing them. By working together with local safety partnerships, the Agency can support local decision making.