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Speech Essay

Good Evening

Today I would like to talk to you about (what else) speed cameras. Rather than addressing this issue from a revenue raising perspective, I would prefer to talk generally of the effect, if any, that speed cameras have on the road toll.

Excessive speed is involved in at least one-third of fatal accidents according to a NSW Road Traffic Authority report . Sickened by a constant barrage of needless and often horrific deaths on our roads, governments across Australia have taken action to reduce the death toll by lowering speeds. In some States speed cameras have been handed a central role in ridding the roads of the speeding menace.

But these policies are misconceived. There is no simple nexus between speed and death, and speed cameras aren't saving lives.

Australia's roads are not the dangerous places they are often portrayed as. Between 1980 and 2002 there has been a 48 per cent reduction in the number of road fatalities, with most of this drop occurring between 1980 and 1991. This is now one of the safest countries in the world to drive: nearly twice as safe as Belgium and an astonishing seven times safer than Turkey.

If speed did kill then the safest roads would be urban roads where speeds are lowest. In fact, the reverse is true. It is freeways, where speeds are much higher, which are the safest roads.

Speeding is rarely the cause of accidents - certainly nowhere near as high as the figure of one-third that is frequently quoted. To get to this figure reports often refer to any accident that has speed as a component as being "speed related". But showing that speed is related to an accident does not show that it was the primary cause of the accident. British data, collected by police at the scene of accidents, show that "speed" was a definite contributory factor in just seven per cent of accidents.

A bad driver travelling 20 km/h below the speed limit can be a far more dangerous driver than one travelling 10 km/h above the speed limit. US data show that it is those who travel moderately above the mean speed who are the safest drivers while the least safe drivers are the slowest and fastest. Although speed cameras will catch the very fastest, they also catch the safe, moderate spe...

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