UK: POLICE MEET SPEED LIMIT CAMPAIGNERS
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Police will meet campaigners who calling for stricter enforcement of speed limits. Transport 2000 is taking their case to the High Court. The group says police guidelines are illegal because those driving up to 50mph in a 30mph limit risk a fixed fine and three penalty points rather than harsher sentence. Transport 2000 is mounting a court action against the chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers' traffic committee. However, the group is meeting senior officers before going to judicial review. Police forces in West Sussex, Leicestershire, Wiltshire, Kent and other counties are now using a mobile speed indicator device to educate drivers. It flashes up an approaching car's speed in numbers a foot high.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: RESEARCH SAYS ROAD TOLLS TO BOOST ECONOMY
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New research suggests road tolls will provide economic benefits by cutting business costs and by speeding up commuting. Britain must embrace road pricing according to Professor Andrew Oswald of Warwick University. He argues that tolls would take non-essential car drivers off the roads, cutting companies' costs and making the British economy more efficient. Road pricing would make the roads run freely again. His research has been passed onto the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and to the chairman of the Commission on Integrated Transport.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: TIRED DRIVERS ATTRIBUTE TO DEATH RATE
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Tired motorists in the UK cause a greater proportion of the yearly 3,500 road deaths than drivers' under the influence of alcohol, according to scientist Jim Horne. In particular, nurses, pilots, commercial drivers and night workers are prone to sleeping at the wheel due to irregular hours and shift work. Professor Horne also suggests that certain roads seem to have a soporific effect on motorists, with the northbound section of the M40 near Birmingham notorious for it. Male drivers aged less than 30 were also found to be most likely to doze off and crash.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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