Road safety cameras
Cumbria Safety Cameras was launched in April 2003 with the
challenge to reduce killed and serious injury accidents by 40 per
cent by 2010. CSC is the operating arm of the Cumbria Safety Camera
Partnership which comprises Cumbria County Council, Cumbria
Constabulary, The Highways Agency and Her Majesty's Courts
Service.
Safety camera vans monitor approximately 50 core mobile sites
and there are a further six sites covered by static cameras. All
sites have a proven history of killed or serious injury accidents
combined with a record of high speed and have to be submitted to -
and approved by - the Department for Transport. The sites account
for under one per cent of the road network within the county and
the sole purpose of monitoring the sites is to reduce vehicle speed
and collisions.