I too think the figures teabelly quotes may be a bit on the high side.
But I know speed cameras cause accidents, because I came within an ace of being involved in one - it didn't occur, quite, but was a bit of a moment - on Zero's favourite 50-limited road the A3 Kingston Bypass. A charging white van that didn't know the road and overreacted on seeing one of those cunningly-placed cameras on the insides of bends, or the fuzz in a sliproad or something.
The other thing that seems obvious is that they are a pickpocketing money-grabber. Getting caught by them is your fault all right, but the question remains of why they are there and the way they are used. Road safety has very little to do with it except as a peg to hang the scam on.
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